The cycle of American literature an essay in historical criticism

Spiller, Robert Ernest, 1896-1988 (Author).

Record details

Physical Description: 318 pages 22 cm
Publisher: New York, Macmillan, 1955.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

[1.] The first frontier: Architects of culture: Edwards, Franklin, Jefferson -- The man of letters: Irving, Bryant, Cooper -- The affirmation: Emerson, Thoreau -- The artist in America: Poe, Hawthorne -- Romantic crisis: Melville, Whitman -- End of an era -- [2.] The second frontier: Literary rediscovery: Howells, Mark Twain -- Art and the inner life: Dickinson, James -- A problem in dynamics: Adams, Norris, Robinson -- Second renaissance: Dreiser, Frost -- Full circle: O'Neill, Hemingway -- The uses of memory: Eliot, Faulkner.