Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America
by Joseph Rocchietti
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About this eBook
- Author
- Rocchietti, Joseph
- Credits
- Ralph Janke and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- United States -- Social life and customs
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 31777
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31777
- Release Date
- March 25, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.WHY A NATIONAL LITERATURE CANNOT FLOURISH IN THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA — BY — JOSEPH ROCCHIETTI — NEW YORK PRINTED BY J. W. KELLEY, 424 BROADWAY 1845.
- 2.Contents — WHY
- 3.A NATIONAL LITERATURE — CANNOT FLOURISH — IN THE — UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA.
- 4.CHAPTER I. — THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES IS NOT A NEW PEOPLE.
- 5.CHAPTER II. — THE PRESENT FASHIONABLE LITERATURE IS UNWORTHY OF THIS GREAT NATION.
- 6.CHAPTER III. — THE AMERICAN LITERATURE IS RATHER TOO MUCH MIXED WITH THE BELIEF OF DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS FAITHS.
- 7.CHAPTER IV. — OF NEWSPAPERS.
- 8.CHAPTER V. — OF TOURISTS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
- 9.CHAPTER VI. — AMERICAN THEATRES.
- 10.CHAPTER VII. — POLITICS AND LAWS.
- 11.CHAPTER VIII. — RELIGION.
- 12.CHAPTER IX. — INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT.
- 13.CHAPTER X. — CONCLUSION. — THE END.
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