William Peterfield Trent, M.A., LL.D. Professor of English Literature in Columbia University John Erskine, Ph.D. Professor of English in Columbia University Stuart P. Sherman, Ph.D. Professor of English in the University of Illinois Carl Van Doren, Ph.D. Literary Editor of "The Nation" In Four Volumes Later National Literature: Part II New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1921 PREFACE N the final volumes of The Cambridge History of American IN Literature will be found several chapters which cover periods beginning much earlier than the Later National Period to which the volumes are specifically devoted. They are placed here partly because it has been found convenient to hold them till the last, inasmuch as they deal with large groups of writers not readily classified elsewhere, and also because in almost every case the bulk of the material discussed in them was produced after 1850. The delay in the publication of these volumes has been due, not only to the unsettled conditions of the time, but equally to the realization, as the work has advanced, that the number of pioneer tasks still to be undertaken in the study of American literature was larger than could be entirely foreseen. We cannot claim to have accomplished all or nearly all of them. But it would be equivalent to a failure to acknowledge our appreciation of the aid rendered by our sixty-four contributors, who have faithfully laboured to bring this history to a completion, if we did not express a belief that the work as a whole furnishes a new and important basis for the understanding of American life and culture. THE EDITORS. 10 September, 1920. CONTENTS By STUART P. SHERMAN, Ph.D., Professor of English in the Mark Twain's Place in American Literature. Youth. Printer and Pilot. The Far West. Journalist and Lecturer. The Quaker City Excursion. Later Life. Artistic Ideals. Travel Books. The Innocents Abroad. Roughing It. A Tramp Abroad. Life on the Mississippi. Following the Equator. Fiction. The Gilded Age. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Pudd'nhead Wilson. Personal Recollections By GEORGE FRISBIE WHICHER, Ph.D., Associate Pro- fessor of English in Amherst College. Humorous Paragraphs and Columns in Newspapers. Comic Journalism. Puck. Judge. Life. New Tendencies after the Civil War. Charles By NORMAN FOERSTER, A.M., Professor of English in the Poets of East and West. New England. Emily Dickinson. Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Minor Figures. The Middle States. Bayard Taylor. Richard Henry Stoddard. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Minor Figures. Richard Watson Gilder. Richard Hovey. The West. |