The first century of American literature, 1770-1870
History
viii, 613 pages ; 21 cm
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The closing eighteenth century. Preliminary
The revolution
Philip Freneau
The Yale poets
The Fin de Siècle
The fight for the novel
Charles Brockden Brown
"The Boston style"
Travelers and Émigrés
The emerging west
The opening century
Rise of the reviews
The periodical essay
The beginnings of native humor
New York
The literary South
The rise of romanticism. Introductory
"Who reads an American book?"
Romanticism
Bryant
Cooper
The discovery of the Indian
The consumptive poets
The annuals and gift-books
Three decades of the short story
Sydney Smith answered
The feudal south
The mid-century renaissance. Emerson
Seba Smith and the new humor
The "magazinists"
Longfellow
Hawthorne
Whittier
The feminine fifties
The Atlantic Monthly
The century from the perspective of today