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Third Edition

Third edition

Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1967

409 stran

ISBN 0-14-020289-7 (brožováno)

000056092

CONTENTS // Acknowledgements 8 // Introduction II // I. Colonial America 23 // 2. America and Europe - The Problems of // Independence 39 // 3. Independence - The First Fruits (Irving, // Cooper, Poe) 53 // 4. New England’s Day (Emerson, Thoreau, // Hawthorne) 81 // 5. Melville and Whitman 113 // 6. More New Englanders (The Brahmin // Poets and Historians) 137 // 7. American Humour and the Rise of the // West (Mark Twain) 157 // 8. Minor Key (Emily Dickinson and others) 179 // 9. Realism in American Prose (From // Howells to Dreiser) 195 // io. The Expatriates (Henry James, Edith // Wharton, Henry Adams, Gertrude Stein) 225 // II. The New Poetry 251 // 12. Fiction since World War I 273 // 13. The American Theatre 305 // 14. Poetry and Criticism since World War I 325 // 15. America and the Writer since 1945 351 // Notes on Further Reading 375 // Some Dates in American History 387 // Index. 391