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American Literature to 1900

Marcus Cunliffe

3.6/5 ( ratings)

This volume takes as a pragmatic starting-point the writings of the first European explorers in America such as Richard Hakluyt, and the first colonial settlers, such as Anne Bradstreet. By the mid-19th century, the evolution of publishing and communications, and the advent of Atlantic Monthly and Harper's had coincided with a flowering of talent - Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman - together with a host of minor figures. The essays in this volume explore three fertile centuries of writers and writing that drew on the Old World and the New, in shaping a distinctive native literature.

Language: English

Pages: 416

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Release: September 02, 1993

ISBN: 0140177582

ISBN 13: 9780140177589

American Literature to 1900

Marcus Cunliffe

3.6/5 ( ratings)

This volume takes as a pragmatic starting-point the writings of the first European explorers in America such as Richard Hakluyt, and the first colonial settlers, such as Anne Bradstreet. By the mid-19th century, the evolution of publishing and communications, and the advent of Atlantic Monthly and Harper's had coincided with a flowering of talent - Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman - together with a host of minor figures. The essays in this volume explore three fertile centuries of writers and writing that drew on the Old World and the New, in shaping a distinctive native literature.

Language: English

Pages: 416

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Release: September 02, 1993

ISBN: 0140177582

ISBN 13: 9780140177589

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