A History of American Literature

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Author

Boynton, Percy Holmes, 1875-1946

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Produced by KD Weeks, David Kline, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

American literature -- History and criticism

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eBook-No.

45353

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45353

Release Date

April 9, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Transcriber’s Note — A HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.CHAPTER I THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY — BOOK LIST — TOPICS AND PROBLEMS
5. 5.CHAPTER II THE EARLIEST VERSE — BOOK LIST — TOPICS AND PROBLEMS
6. 6.CHAPTER III THE TRANSITION TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY — BOOK LIST — TOPICS AND PROBLEMS
7. 7.CHAPTER IV JONATHAN EDWARDS AND BENJAMIN FRANKLIN — BOOK LIST — TOPICS AND PROBLEMS
8. 8.CHAPTER V CRÈVECŒUR, THE “AMERICAN FARMER” — BOOK LIST — TOPICS AND PROBLEMS
9. 9.CHAPTER VI THE POETRY OF THE REVOLUTION AND PHILIP FRENEAU — BOOK LIST — TOPICS AND PROBLEMS
10. 10.CHAPTER VII THE EARLY DRAMA — BOOK LIST — TOPICS AND PROBLEMS
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN — BOOK LIST — TOPICS AND PROBLEMS
12. 12.CHAPTER IX IRVING AND THE KNICKERBOCKER SCHOOL — WASHINGTON IRVING — BOOK LIST — TOPICS AND PROBLEMS
13. 13.CHAPTER X JAMES FENIMORE COOPER — BOOK LIST — TOPICS AND PROBLEMS
14. 14.CHAPTER XI WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT — BOOK LIST — TOPICS AND PROBLEMS
15. 15.CHAPTER XII EDGAR ALLAN POE — BOOK LIST — TOPICS AND PROBLEMS
16. 16.CHAPTER XIII THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS — BOOK LIST
17. 17.CHAPTER XIV RALPH WALDO EMERSON — BOOK LIST — TOPICS AND PROBLEMS
18. 18.CHAPTER XV HENRY DAVID THOREAU — BOOK LIST — TOPICS AND PROBLEMS
19. 19.CHAPTER XVI NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE — BOOK LIST — TOPICS AND PROBLEMS
20. 20.CHAPTER XVII JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER — BOOK LIST — TOPICS AND PROBLEMS
21. 21.CHAPTER XVIII HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW — BOOK LIST — TOPICS AND PROBLEMS
22. 22.CHAPTER XIX JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL — BOOK LIST — TOPICS AND PROBLEMS
23. 23.CHAPTER XX HARRIET BEECHER STOWE — BOOK LIST — TOPICS AND PROBLEMS
24. 24.CHAPTER XXI OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES — BOOK LIST — TOPICS AND PROBLEMS
25. 25.CHAPTER XXII SOME METROPOLITAN POETS — BOOK LIST — TOPICS AND PROBLEMS
26. 26.CHAPTER XXIII THE POETRY OF THE SOUTH — BOOK LIST — TOPICS AND PROBLEMS
27. 27.CHAPTER XXIV WALT WHITMAN — BOOK LIST — TOPICS AND PROBLEMS
28. 28.CHAPTER XXV THE WEST AND MARK TWAIN — BOOK LIST — TOPICS AND PROBLEMS
29. 29.CHAPTER XXVI THE WEST IN SILL AND MILLER — EDWARD ROWLAND SILL (1841–1887) — JOAQUIN MILLER (1841–1913) — BOOK LIST — TOPICS AND PROBLEMS
30. 30.CHAPTER XXVII THE RISE OF FICTION; WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS — WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS (1837–) — BOOK LIST
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVIII CONTEMPORARY DRAMA — BOOK LIST
32. 32.CHAPTER XXIX THE LATER POETRY — BOOK LIST
33. 33.INDEX TO LEADING NINETEENTH-CENTURY PERIODICALS
34. 34.INDEX — Footnotes
35. 35.Transcriber’s Note
36. 36.Chronological Chart Transcriptions — CHRONOLOGICAL CHART I. AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1600–1800 — CHRONOLOGICAL CHART II, American Literature in the Nineteenth Century — CHRONOLOGICAL CHART III, LEADING PERIODICALS ESTABLISHED SINCE 1800 WHICH HAVE SERVED AS VEHICLES FOR AMERICAN WRITINGS — CHRONOLOGICAL CHART II. AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

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