BOOK I: COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY LITERATURE |
Chapter I. |
Travellers and Explorers, 1583–1763 |
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By GEORGE PARKER WINSHIP, A.M., Librarian of the Harry Elkins Widener Collection, Harvard University
- The Earliest Adventures
- Captain John Smith
- Newfoundland
- William Vaughn
- Robert Hayman
- Robert Sedgwick
- Pamphlets of the Land Companies
- Narratives of Indian Captivities
- Mrs. Rowlandson
- John Gyles
- Jonathan Dickinson
- The Quakers
- Alice Curwen
- George Keith
- Sarah Knight
- William Byrd
- Dr. Alexander Hamilton
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II. |
The Historians, 1607–1783 |
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By JOHN SPENCER BASSETT, Ph.D., Professor of American History in Smith College
- Captain John Smith
- His Veracity
- Early New England Historians
- “Mourt’s” Relation
- Edward Winslow
- William Bradford
- John Winthrop
- Edward Johnson
- Nathaniel Morton
- Later New England Historians
- Narratives of the Indian Wars
- Captain John Mason
- Rev. William Hubbard
- Benjamin Church
- Samuel Penhallow
- Daniel Gookin
- Cadwallader Colden
- John Lawson
- Political Histories
- Robert Beverley
- Rev. William Stith
- William Smith; Samuel Smith
- Rev. Thomas Prince
- Thomas Hutchinson
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The Puritan Divines, 1620–1720 |
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By VERNON LOUIS PARRINGTON, A.M., Professor of English in the University of Washington
- Puritans and Politics
- Puritanism as Jacobean Radicalism
- Types of Church Polity Corresponding to Types of State Polity—Monarchical, Artistocratic, Democratic
- Early New England Congregationalism a Compromise between Aristocracy and Democracy
- The Emigrants: the Theocratic Group—John Cotton, Nathaniel Ward, John Eliot; the Democratic Group—Roger Williams, Thomas Hooker
- The Second Generation: the Theocratic Group—the Mathers; the Democrats—John Wise
- Learning of the Puritan Divines
- Their Industry and Influence
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IV. |
Edwards |
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By PAUL ELMER MORE, A.M., LL.D., Formerly Editor of The Nation
- Edward’s Early Years
- His Marriage
- His Journal
- His Love of God
- His Preaching
- The Great Awakening
- Narrative of Surprising Conversions
- Thoughts on the Revival of Religion; Marks of a Work of the True Spirit
- Treatise Concerning Religious Affections
- The Quarrel with the Northampton Congregation
- Stockbridge
- President of the College of New Jersey; Death
- The Relations of Edwards to the Deistic Controversy
- The Freedom of the Will
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Philosophers and Divines, 1720–1789 |
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By WOODBRIDGE RILEY, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy in Vassar College
- The Three Enemies of Orthodoxy—Rationalists, Enthusiasts, Ethical Reformers
- The Whitefield Controversy
- Charles Chauncy; Edward Wigglesworth
- Jonathan Mayhew
- Samuel Johnson
- John Woolman
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Franklin |
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By STUART P. SHERMAN, Ph.D., Professor of English in the University of Illinois
- Franklin’s Training
- His Early Years
- His First Writings
- Philadelphia; London
- The Pennsylvania Gazette
- His Public Activities
- Experiments in Electricity
- Missions to England
- Franklin in the Revolution
- Mission to France
- Death
- His Religion
- His Morals
- His Politics
- His Scientific Interests
- His Style
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Colonial Newspapers and Magazines, 1704–1775 |
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By ELIZABETH CHRISTINE COOK, Ph.D., Instructor in English in Teachers College, Columbia University
- Literature in the Colonial Newspapers
- The New England Courant
- The New England Weekly Journal
- Franklin as Journalist
- Advertisements of Books
- The South Carolina Gazette
- The Virginia Gazette
- Politics in the Later Newspapers
- The Vogue of French Radicalism
- The Massachusetts Spy
- Magazines
- The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle
- The American Magazine
- The Pennsylvania Magazine; The Royal American Magazine
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VIII. |
American Political Writing, 1760–1789 |
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By WILLIAM MACDONALD, Ph.D., Professor of History in Brown University
- The Pre-eminence of American Political Literature
- James Otis
- The Stamp Act Controversy
- The Stamp Act Congress
- John Dickinson
- Samuel Adams
- The First Continental Congress
- The Loyalists
- The Satirists
- Franklin
- Thomas Paine
- A Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms
- The Declaration of Independence
- The Journal of the Continental Congress
- The Crisis
- The Constitutional Convention
- The Federalist
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The Beginnings of Verse, 1610–1808 |
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By SAMUEL MARION TUCKER, Ph.D., Professor of English in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute
- The Three Periods
- Verse in the Southern and Middle Colonies
- The First New England Poets
- The Memorial Poems
- Anne Bradstreet
- The Bay Psalm Book
- Michael Wigglesworth
- Dryden and Pope in New England
- Philadelphia Poets
- The Long Poems of the Eighteenth Century
- Timothy Dwight
- Political verse
- David Humphreys
- Joel Barlow
- John Trumbull
- Tory Satirists
- Lyric Poetry
- Philip Freneau
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BOOK II: EARLY NATIONAL LITERATURE |
Chapter I. |
Travellers and Observers, 1763–1846 |
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By LANE COOPER, Ph.D., Professor of English in Cornell University
- The Background of the Travellers
- Nature and the Natural Man
- The Routes of the Travellers
- The Varities of their Aims
- Their Common Interests
- Jonathan Carver
- William Bartram
- St. Jean de Crévecœur
- Notes on the State of Virginia
- The Lewis and Clark Expedition
- The Literary Wars between England and America
- The Answers of Cooper and Irving
- The Influence of the Travellers
- The Travellers and Wordsworth
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II. |
The Early Drama, 1756–1860 |
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By ARTHUR HOBSON QUINN, Ph.D., Dean of the College, University of Pennsylvania
- The Origins of the Drama in College Exercises
- Influence of the Early Companies; Godfrey’s Prince of Parthia, the first American Play
- The Closing of the Theatres
- The Revolutionary Satirists
- Tyler’s Contrast
- William Dunlap
- J. N. Barker
- J. H. Payne
- Beginning of the Creative Period
- Stone’s Metamora
- The Philadelphia Group: R. M. Bird, R. P. Smith, Conrad, Boker
- Types of Drama
- Romantic Tragedy
- Historical and National Plays
- Comedy and Melodrama
- The “Yankee” Plays
- The Realistic New York Drama
- Social Satire
- Romantic Comedy
- Gothic Melodrama
- Domestic Drama; Farce
- The Periods in the Development of the American Drama
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III. |
Early Essayists |
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By GEORGE FRISBIE WHICHER, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English in Amherst College
- The Periodical Essay in America
- Joseph Dennie
- William Wirt
- James Kirke Paulding
- Richard Henry Dana the elder
- Nathaniel Parker Willis
- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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IV. |
Irving |
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By MAJOR GEORGE HAVEN PUTNAM, Litt.D.
- Early Years
- First Voyage to Europe
- Salmagundi
- Diedrich Knickerbocker
- England
- Spain; The Spanish Books
- A Tour on the Prairies
- A New Publisher
- Later Years
- Irving’s Cosmopolitanism
- A History of New York
- The Sketch Book
- Bracebridge Hall
- Tales of a Traveller
- Life of Columbus
- The Conquest of Granada
- Legends of the Alhambra
- Life of Mahomet
- Life of Washington
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Bryant and the Minor Poets |
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By WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English in the University of Wisconsin
- BRYANT
- Early Years
- Bryant’s Independence as a Poet
- The Unity of his Life and Work
- His Ideas
- Nature in Bryant
- Bryant’s Images
- His “Surveys”
- Bryant as Naturalist
- His Fairy Poems
- His Translations
- His Artistry
- His Style
- Limitations as a Poet
- Bryant as Critic and Editor
- His Prose Style
- Bryant the Citizen
- MINOR POETS
- Richard Henry Dana the elder
- James Kirke Paulding
- James Gates Percival
- Samuel Woodworth; George P. Morris
- Charles Fenno Hoffman
- Nathaniel Parker Willis
- Joseph Rodman Drake
- The Culprit Fay
- Fitz-Green Halleck
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VI. |
Fiction I: Brown, Cooper |
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By CARL VAN DOREN, Ph.D., Head Master of The Brearley School, Associate in English in Columbia University
- The Novel in the Colonies
- Influence of Richardson
- Mrs. Morton; Mrs. Foster; Mrs. Rowson; Charlotte Temple
- Hugh Henry Brackenridge; Modern Chivalry
- Charles Brockden Brown
- Alcuin; Arthur Meruyn
- Wieland
- Ormond
- Brown’s Indebtedness to Godwin
- Edgar Huntly
- Isaac Mitchell; Tabitha Tenney; Samuel Woodworth
- James Fenimore Cooper; Youth; Naval Career
- Precaution
- The Spy
- The Pioneers
- The Pilot
- The Last of the Mohicans
- The Prairie
- Residence in Europe
- Red Rover; The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish
- Notions of the Americans; Novels written in Europe
- Return to America and Ensuing Controversies
- Writings on Naval Affairs; Later Nautical Tales
- Later Border Tales; The Pathfinder
- The Deerslayer
- The Littlepage Manuscripts
- Cooper’s Rank as a Romancer
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VII. |
Fiction II: Contemporaries of Cooper |
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By CARL VAN DOREN
- The Services of the Historical Romance in the Development of the American Novel
- The Influence of the Frontier
- The Sections Celebrated by the Romancers
- John Neal; Mrs. Child; Miss Sedgwick
- D. P. Thompson
- Paulding; Bird
- Kennedy
- Judge Beverley Tucker
- Caruthers
- William Gilmore Simms
- His Devotion to South Carolina
- The Variety of his Miscellaneous Work
- Guy Rivers; The Yemassee
- The Partisan Series
- Simms’s Border Tales
- His Tragic Later Career
- Mrs. Kirkland
- James Hall
- Kentucky in Fiction
- Bird’s Mexican Romances; Mayo
- Melville
- Typee; Omoo
- Mardi
- Moby Dick
- Ware; Judd
- The Victory of Fiction in the United States
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VIII. |
Transcendentalism |
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By HAROLD CLARK GODDARD, Ph.D., Professor of English in Swarthmore College
- New England Transcendentalism a Phase of World-Wide Movement
- Religious rather than Political
- Transcendentalism the Natural Sequel of Puritanism
- Channing
- The German Influence
- The Transcendental Club
- The General Principles of Transcendentalism
- Its Vagaries
- Alcott
- Ripley; Brook Farm
- The Dial
- Margaret Fuller
- Parker
- Abolitionism
- The Relations of European and American Transcendentalism
- The Essentially Native Character of New England Transcendentalism
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IX. |
Emerson |
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By PAUL ELMER MORE
- The High Place of Emerson in American Letters
- His Youth and Training
- His Journals
- Nature; Essays
- The American Scholar; The Divinity School Address
- Representative Men; English Traits
- Emerson’s Optimism
- Emerson’s Resignation from the Ministry
- Its Significance
- His Place in the Romantic Movement
- Form and Style
- Ideas
- His Failure to Perceive the Meaning of Evil; The Rarity and Beauty of his Accomplishment
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