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100 1 $aBrooks, Van Wyck,$d1886-1963.
245 10 $aOur literary heritage ;$ba pictorial history of the writer in America /$cby Van Wyck Brooks and Otto L. Bettmann.
250 $a[1st ed.]
260 $aNew York :$bDutton,$c[1956]
300 $aix, 241 p. :$bill., ports. ;$c29 cm.
500 $a"Based on the five volumes of ... [the author's] Makers and finders: a history of the writer in America, 1800-1915."
505 0 $apt.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.
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