The Cambridge History of American Literature: Later national literature: pt. II

By CARL VAN DOREN, Ph.D., Literary Editor of The
Nation, Associate in English in Columbia University.
The Dime Novel. John Esten Cooke. Theodore Winthrop. Domestic
Sentimentalism. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin. Dred.
Her Novels of New England Life. E. P. Roe. Lew Wallace. Edward
Eggleston. William Dean Howells. The Development of His Taste.
Experiments in Fiction. A Chance Acquaintance. A Modern Instance.
The Rise of Silas Lapham. Turgenev and Tolstoy. A Hazard of New
Fortunes. Altruria. Travels and Memoirs. Later Novels. The
Eighties. Francis Marion Crawford. Characteristics. Ideals.
Range. Reactions from Official Realism. Rococo Romance. S. Weir
Mitchell. Naturalism. E. W. Howe. Stephen Crane.
Norris. Jack London. Contemporaries.

CHAPTER XII

HENRY JAMES

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By JOSEPH WARREN BEACH, Ph.D., Associate Professor of

English in the University of Minnesota.

The Question of James's Americanism. His Passion for "Europe." Amer

icans in His Stories. Transcendentalism. Parentage and Education

Newport, Boston, Cambridge. Residence Abroad. Miscellaneous

Writings. Collected Stories. Earlier Novels. Short Stories. Later

Novels. Peculiarity of the James Method. James and Pater. Amer

ican Faith and European Culture.

CHAPTER XIII

LATER ESSAYISTS

By GEORGE S. HELLMAN, A.M.

Types of American Essayists. Donald Grant Mitchell. Detachmen

from Public Affairs. George William Curtis. Prue and I. Public

Career. Charles Eliot Norton. His Great Influence. Thoma:

Wentworth Higginson. Varied Interests. Moncure D. Conway

Edward Everett Hale. The Man Without a Country. Julia Warc

Howe. Emma Lazarus. Mrs. Stowe. Charles Dudley Warner

Hamilton Wright Mabie. Edwin Percy Whipple. Edmund Clarenc

Stedman. William Winter. Laurence Hutton. Living Essayists. . 109

CHAPTER XIV

TRAVELLERS AND EXPLORERS, 1846-1900

By FREDERICK S. DELLENBAUGH.

Texas. The Santa Fé Trail. By the Missouri to Oregon. Naval Ex

peditions. Missionaries. Routes from Santa Fé to Los Angeles. The

Oregon Trail. California. Frémont. The Mormons. The Gold

Seekers. Indians. A Pacific Railway. Perry's Visit to Japan

Boundary Surveys. Joaquin Miller. Mark Twain. Travellers t

the Orient. The South Seas. The Colorado River. Geological Sur

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veys. The Bureau of Ethnology. War with the Sioux. Cowboys.

The Isthmus of Panama. Travels in the Older States. Africa. Egypt.

Italy. Spain. Russia. Many Lands. The Philippines. Alaska.

Arctic Exploration. Peary's Discovery of the North Pole.

CHAPTER XV

LATER HISTORIANS

By JOHN SPENCER BASSETT, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of

American History in Smith College.

Changes in Conceptions of History.

Underlying Movements. The

Growth of Historical Societies. The American Historical Association.

The American Historical Review. The Collection of Historical Docu-

ments. The Transformation of Historical Instruction in the Uni-

versities. Herbert B. Adams. Minor Historians of the Old School.

John William Draper. Accounts of the Civil War. John G. Nicolay

and John Hay. Abraham Lincoln, a History. Southern Histories.

"The Great Subject"-The Age of Discovery and Exploration. Amer-

icana and Collectors. Henry Harrisse. Justin Winsor. Edward Gay-

lord Bourne. Four Literary Historians. John Foster Kirk. Francis

Parkman. France and England in North America. Edward Eggleston.

"A History of Life in the United States." John Fiske. Historians of

the Latest Period. Henry Charles Lea. Hubert Howe Bancroft.

Alfred Thayer Mahan. Charles Francis Adams. Henry Adams. Mont

Saint Michel and Chartres. The Education of Henry Adams.

CHAPTER XVI

LATER THEOLOGY

By AMBROSE WHITE VERNON, A.M., D.D., Professor of

Biography in Carleton College.

The Decline of Theology. Charles Hodge. Heresy Trials. Charles

Augustus Briggs. Changing Conceptions of the Bible. The Revised

Version. The Higher Criticism. Evolution. Foreign Missions. The

Study of Comparative Religions. Walter Rauschenbusch. Washing-

ton Gladden. Phillips Brooks.

CHAPTER XVII

LATER PHILOSOPHY

By MORRIS R. COHEN, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy in
the College of the City of New York.

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American Life and American Philosophy. The Traditions of American
Philosophy. Large Indebtedness to Great Britain. Other Influences.
Scotch Common-Sense Realism. The Evolutionary Philosophy. Its
Influence on American Theology. John Fiske. His Substitution of
the Evolutionary Myth for the Old Theology. Scientific Thought in
America. Chauncey Wright. His Conception of True Scientific
Method. William T. Harris. His Attack on Agnosticism. The Journal
of Speculative Philosophy. The Improvement of Philosophical Teach-
ing. The Philosophical Review. Philosophical Professors. Charles S.
Peirce. The Origins of Pragmatism. Josiah Royce. Metaphysical
Idealism. The World and the Individual. William James. His Vivid-
ness and Humanity. Principles of Psychology. Radical Empiricism.

Pluralism. John Dewey. Naturalism. Great Influence. J. Mark

Baldwin. Pancalism. George Santayana. The Life of Reason.

Detachment. The New Realism.

CHAPTER XVIII

THE DRAMA, 1860-1918

By MONTROSE J. MOSES.

The Civil War on the Stage. Black and Red Americans. Dion_Bouci-

cault. John Brougham. General Unconcern with Native Drama.

Edwin Forrest. Charlotte Cushman. Edwin Booth. Lawrence

Barrett. Lester Wallack. W. E. Burton. The Search for Foreign

Plays. Augustin Daly. Critics. Laurence Hutton. Brander

Matthews. William Winter. Bronson Howard. Local Color. Steele

MacKaye. The Theatres of the Eighties in New York. The Stat

System. Theatrical Trusts. Charles and Daniel Frohman. David

Belasco. Augustus Thomas. Clyde Fitch. James A. Herne

liam Gillette. Charles Klein. Lurid Melodrama. Successful Novels

on the Stage. The Publication of Plays. George Ade. George M.

Cohan. William Vaughn Moody. Later Literary Drama. The Broad-

way School. Tricks and Farces. Independent Theatres. The

New Theatre. Pageants. Secessionist Groups.

CHAPTER XIX

LATER MAGAZINES

Wil-

By WILLIAM B. CAIRNS, Ph.D., Associate Professor c:
American Literature in the University of Wisco: s 1.

The Importance of the American Magazine. Advertising. Short tor:
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York. The South. The Older Magazines Continued. The han
Monthly. Harper's Monthly Magazine. Scribner's Monthl
Century Magazine. Scribner's Magazine. Putnam's Monthly Mc,
zine and Its Successors. The Galaxy. The Overland Monthl
Ladies' Home Journal. Popular Magazines. Muck-Raking. Mi lur
Magazine. Recent Developments.

CHAPTER XX

NEWSPAPERS SINCE 1860

By FRANK W. SCOTT, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of E
lish in the University of Illinois.

The Newspapers of 1860. Progress During the Civil War. Corros
ents. Censorship. The Influence of the Great Editors. Mechar
Improvements. Reconstruction. Charles A. Dana and the
York Sun. Weekly Papers. The Independent. Harper's Weekly.
Nation. The Decline of Editorials. The Growth of Advertising.
Associated Press. Foreign News Service. Sensationalism. Jo
Pulitzer and the New York World. William Randolph Hearst.
Sunday Supplernent. Recent Tendencies. Economic Bias Ar
Newspapers. The New Importance of the Weekly and Mer
Papers. Collier's Weekly. The New Republic. The Weekly Pe
The Liberator. The Survey. Reedy's Mirror. The Dial. The
man. Party Organs. Public Activities of Newspapers. The
War.

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