American Literature: A Period Anthology, Volume 1Oscar Cargill Macmillan Company, 1939 |
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... American crudities and haste . In The American Democrat ( 1838 ) he defined his social and political ideals ; in his Gleanings and his European novels he applied them to French , German , and English life and found the old world ...
... American crudities and haste . In The American Democrat ( 1838 ) he defined his social and political ideals ; in his Gleanings and his European novels he applied them to French , German , and English life and found the old world ...
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... American scene to provide a native background for the romantic imaginations of our early writers . Another characteristic of romantic writing which was early evident in the American movement is a concern with the near distance . English ...
... American scene to provide a native background for the romantic imaginations of our early writers . Another characteristic of romantic writing which was early evident in the American movement is a concern with the near distance . English ...
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... America with this intent and is guided by John Cadwalader , an American gentlemen representative of Cooper's social ideal . The work deals with all aspects of American life in an urbane spirit , and , although strongly pro - American in ...
... America with this intent and is guided by John Cadwalader , an American gentlemen representative of Cooper's social ideal . The work deals with all aspects of American life in an urbane spirit , and , although strongly pro - American in ...
Contents
THE FIRST FRONTIER | 1 |
THE AWAKENING OF LITERARY CONSCIOUSNESS | 10 |
PROLOGUE | 17 |
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