Contents: pt. 1. The world of Washington Irving: Philadelphia in 1800 -- The land of Yankees -- The Dutch along the Hudson -- Washington Irving -- Irving and Scott -- James Fenimore Cooper -- Later Knickerbockers -- The West -- Frontier life contributes to national literature -- The South -- Edgar Allan Poe -- William Cullen Bryant -- Painters and writers -- pt. 2. The flowering of New England: Boston and Cambridge -- New England minds lead the nation -- Widening horizons -- New England historians fulfill vital function -- The hour had struck for poets -- Young Boston goes to sea -- Transcendentalism explores the inner life -- The sage of Concord -- Henry Thoreau -- Intellectual whirlpools -- Brook Farm -- The Alcott family -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The anti-slavery writers -- Whittier, poet-laureate of New England -- Uncle Tom's Cabin -- James Russell Lowell -- Literary Boston -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The Saturday club -- pt. 3. The times of Melville and Whitman: New York in the fifties -- Tales of the travellers -- Herman Melville -- Melville's Moby Dick -- Melville and Whitman -- Leaves of Grass -- Walt Whitman: the image of the poet -- The far west -- The world of Bret Harte -- Cowboys bandits and books -- The midwest -- Sidney Lanier -- Negro folklore charms the nation -- Regional writing -- George W. Cable -- Mark Twain -- pt. 4. New England, Indian summer: Henry Adams -- Practically triumphant -- The rise of realism -- Writers strive for a better world -- The problem of Europe in American breasts -- Henry James -- Emily Dickinson -- Women writers gain in influence -- Poetry in decline -- pt. 5. The confident years: The ghetto a school for writers -- Stephen Crane -- Reformers, reporters, writers -- O. Henry -- New York high society -- Chicago -- The west's new voices -- Theodore Dreiser -- Small town -- Willa Cather -- Saving the cowboy from oblivion -- San Francisco in the nineties -- Jack London -- Ellen Glasgow -- The southwest -- Gertrude Stein -- Mencken of Baltimore -- Sinclair Lewis -- The imagists -- Eugene O'Neill -- Poetic renaissance

Control code: ocm00269165

Dimensions: 29 cm

Edition: 1st ed..

Extent: ix, 241 pages

Isbn: 9780525172758

Lccn: 56008325

Media category: unmediated

Media MARC source: rdamedia

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Other physical details: illustrations, portraits

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(Sirsi) 5387
(OCoLC)00269165

Label: Our literary heritage : a pictorial history of the writer in America, by Van Wyck Brooks and Otto L. Bettmann

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New York, Dutton, 1956

Note: "Based on the five volumes of ... [the author's] Makers and finders: a history of the writer in America, 1800-1915."

Carrier category: volume

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Carrier MARC source: rdacarrier

Content category: text

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Content type MARC source: rdacontent

Contents: pt. 1. The world of Washington Irving: Philadelphia in 1800 -- The land of Yankees -- The Dutch along the Hudson -- Washington Irving -- Irving and Scott -- James Fenimore Cooper -- Later Knickerbockers -- The West -- Frontier life contributes to national literature -- The South -- Edgar Allan Poe -- William Cullen Bryant -- Painters and writers -- pt. 2. The flowering of New England: Boston and Cambridge -- New England minds lead the nation -- Widening horizons -- New England historians fulfill vital function -- The hour had struck for poets -- Young Boston goes to sea -- Transcendentalism explores the inner life -- The sage of Concord -- Henry Thoreau -- Intellectual whirlpools -- Brook Farm -- The Alcott family -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The anti-slavery writers -- Whittier, poet-laureate of New England -- Uncle Tom's Cabin -- James Russell Lowell -- Literary Boston -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The Saturday club -- pt. 3. The times of Melville and Whitman: New York in the fifties -- Tales of the travellers -- Herman Melville -- Melville's Moby Dick -- Melville and Whitman -- Leaves of Grass -- Walt Whitman: the image of the poet -- The far west -- The world of Bret Harte -- Cowboys bandits and books -- The midwest -- Sidney Lanier -- Negro folklore charms the nation -- Regional writing -- George W. Cable -- Mark Twain -- pt. 4. New England, Indian summer: Henry Adams -- Practically triumphant -- The rise of realism -- Writers strive for a better world -- The problem of Europe in American breasts -- Henry James -- Emily Dickinson -- Women writers gain in influence -- Poetry in decline -- pt. 5. The confident years: The ghetto a school for writers -- Stephen Crane -- Reformers, reporters, writers -- O. Henry -- New York high society -- Chicago -- The west's new voices -- Theodore Dreiser -- Small town -- Willa Cather -- Saving the cowboy from oblivion -- San Francisco in the nineties -- Jack London -- Ellen Glasgow -- The southwest -- Gertrude Stein -- Mencken of Baltimore -- Sinclair Lewis -- The imagists -- Eugene O'Neill -- Poetic renaissance

Control code: ocm00269165

Dimensions: 29 cm

Edition: 1st ed..

Extent: ix, 241 pages

Isbn: 9780525172758

Lccn: 56008325

Media category: unmediated

Media MARC source: rdamedia

Media type code

Other physical details: illustrations, portraits

System control number

(Sirsi) 5387
(OCoLC)00269165

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