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The cycle of American literature

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Spiller, Robert Ernest, 1896-1988
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Title The cycle of American literature : an essay in historical criticism / Robert E. Spiller.
Publisher New York : Macmillan
Creation Date 1955
Content [1.] The first frontier -- Architects of culture: Edwards, Franklin, Jefferson -- The man of letters: Irving, Bryant, Cooper -- The affirmation: Emerson, Thoreau -- The artist in America: Poe, Hawthorne -- Romantic crisis: Melville, Whitman -- End of an era -- [2.] The second frontier -- Literary rediscovery: Howells, Mark Twain -- Art and the inner life: Dickinson, James -- A problem in dynamics: Adams, Norris, Robinson -- Second renaissance: Dreiser, Frost -- Full circle: O'Neill, Hemingway -- The uses of memory: Eliot, Faulkner.
Extent xv, 318 pages
22 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 990025423460205171

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