BOOK III: LATER NATIONAL LITERATURE: PART II (CONTINUED) |
Chapter VIII. |
Mark Twain |
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By STUART P. SHERMAN, Ph.D., Professor of English in the University of Illinois
- Mark Twain’s Place in American Literature
- Youth
- Printer and Pilot
- The Far West
- Journalist and Lecturer
- The Quaker City Excursion
- Later Life
- Artistic Ideals
- Travel Books
- The Innocents Abroad
- Roughing It
- A Tramp Abroad
- Life on the Mississippi
- Following the Equator
- Fiction
- The Gilded Age
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
- Pudd’nhead Wilson
- Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
- Naturalistic Pessimism; What is Man? The Mysterious Stranger
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IX. |
Minor Humorists |
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By GEORGE FRISBIE WHICHER, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English in Amherst College
- Humorous Paragraphs and Columns in Newspapers
- Comic Journalism; Puck, Judge, Life
- New Tendencies after the Civil War
- Charles Godfrey Leland
- George Ade
- Eugene Field
- Mr. Dooley
- O. Henry
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X. |
Later Poets |
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By NORMAN FOERSTER, A.M., Professor of English in the University of North Carolina
- Poets of East and West
- New England; Emily Dickinson
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Minor Figures
- The Middle States
- Bayard Taylor
- Richard Henry Stoddard
- Edmund Clarence Stedman
- Minor Figures
- Richard Watson Gilder
- Richard Hovey
- The West
- Joaquin Miller
- Edward Rowland Sill
- Minor Figures
- James Whitcomb Riley
- William Vaughn Moody
- Contemporary Poetry
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XI. |
The Later Novel: Howells |
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By CARL VAN DOREN, Ph.D., Literary Editor of The Nation, Associate in English in Columbia University
- The Dime Novel
- John Esten Cooke
- Theodore Winthrop
- Domestic Sentimentalism
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Dred
- Her Novels of New England Life
- E. P. Roe
- Lew Wallace
- Edward Eggleston
- William Dean Howells
- The Development of His Taste
- Experiments in Fiction
- A Chance Acquaintance
- A Modern Instance
- The Rise of Silas Lapham
- Turgenev and Tolstoy
- A Hazard of New Fortunes
- Altruria
- Travels and Memoirs
- Later Novels
- The Eighties
- Francis Marion Crawford
- Characteristics
- Ideals; Range
- Reactions from Official Realism; Rococo Romance
- S. Weir Mitchell
- Naturalism; E. W. Howe
- Stephen Crane
- Frank Norris
- Jack London
- Contemporaries
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XII. |
Henry James |
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By JOSEPH WARREN BEACH, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English in the University of Minnesota
- The Question of James’s Americanism
- His Passion for “Europe”
- Americans in His Stories
- Transcendentalism
- Parentage and Education
- Newport, Boston, Cambridge
- Residence Abroad
- Miscellaneous Writings; Collected Stories
- Earlier Novels
- Short Stories
- Later Novels
- Peculiarity of the James Method
- James and Pater
- American Faith and European Culture
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XIII. |
Later Essayists |
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By GEORGE S. HELLMAN, A.M.
- Types of American Essayists
- Donald Grant Mitchell
- Detachment from Public Affairs
- George William Curtis
- Prue and I
- Public Career
- Charles Eliot Norton
- His Great Influence
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson; Varied Interests
- Moncure D. Conway
- Edward Everett Hale; The Man Without a Country
- Julia Ward Howe
- Emma Lazarus
- Mrs. Stowe
- Charles Dudley Warner
- Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Edwin Percy Whipple
- Edmund Clarence Stedman
- William Winter
- Laurence Hutton
- Living Essayists
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XIV. |
Travellers and Explorers, 1846–1900 |
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By FREDERICK S. DELLENBAUGH
- Texas
- The Santa Fé Trail
- By the Missouri to Oregon
- Naval Expeditions
- Missionaries
- Routes from Santa Fé to Los Angeles
- The Oregon Trail
- California
- Frémont
- The Mormons
- The Gold-Seekers
- Indians
- A Pacific Railway
- Perry’s Visit to Japan
- Boundary Surveys
- Joaquin Miller
- Mark Twain
- Travellers to the Orient
- The South Seas
- The Colorado River
- Geological Surveys
- The Bureau of Ethnology
- War with the Sioux
- Cowboys
- The Isthmus of Panama
- Travels in the Older States
- Africa
- Egypt
- Italy
- Spain
- Russia
- Many Lands
- The Philippines
- Alaska
- Arctic Exploration
- Peary’s Discovery of the North Pole
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XV. |
Later Historians |
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By JOHN SPENCER BASSETT, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of American History in Smith College
- Changes in Conceptions of History
- Underlying Movements
- The Growth of Historical Societies
- The American Historical Association; The American Historical Review
- The Collection of Historical Documents
- The Transformation of Historical Instruction in the Universities
- Herbert B. Adams
- Minor Historians of the Old School
- John William Draper
- Accounts of the Civil War
- John G. Nicolay and John Hay; Abraham Lincoln, a History
- Southern Histories
- “The Great Subject”—The Age of Discovery and Exploration
- Americana and Collectors
- Henry Harrisse
- Justin Winsor
- Edward Gaylord Bourne
- Four Literary Historians
- John Foster Kirk
- Francis Parkman
- France and England in North America
- Edward Eggleston
- “A History of Life in the United States”
- John Fiske
- Historians of the Latest Period
- Henry Charles Lea
- Hubert Howe Bancroft
- Alfred Thayer Mahan
- Charles Francis Adams
- Henry Adams
- Mont Saint Michel and Chartres; The Education of Henry Adams
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XVI. |
Later Theology |
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By AMBROSE WHITE VERNON, A.M., D.D., Professor of Biography in Carleton College
- The Decline of Theology
- Charles Hodge
- Heresy Trials
- Charles Augustus Briggs
- Changing Conceptions of the Bible
- The Revised Version
- The Higher Criticism
- Evolution
- Foreign Missions
- The Study of Comparative Religions
- Walter Rauschenbusch
- Washington Gladden
- Phillips Brooks
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XVII. |
Later Philosophy |
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By MORRIS R. COHEN, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy in the College of the City of New York
- American Life and American Philosophy
- The Traditions of American Philosophy; Large Indebtedness to Great Britain
- Other Influences
- Scotch Common-Sense Realism
- The Evolutionary Philosophy
- Its Influence on American Theology
- John Fiske
- His Substitution of the Evolutionary Myth for the Old Theology
- Scientific Thought in America
- Chauncey Wright
- His Conception of True Scientific Method
- William T. Harris
- His Attack on Agnosticism
- The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
- The Improvement of Philosophical Teaching
- The Philosophical Review
- Philosophical Professors
- Charles S. Peirce
- The Origins of Pragmatism
- Josiah Royce
- Metaphysical Idealism
- The World and the Individual
- William James
- His Vividness and Humanity
- Principles of Psychology; Radical Empiricism
- Pluralism
- John Dewey
- Naturalism
- Great Influence
- J. Mark Baldwin; Pancalism
- George Santayana; The Life of Reason
- Detachment
- The New Realism
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XVIII. |
The Drama, 1860–1918 |
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By MONTROSE J. MOSES
- The Civil War on the Stage
- Black and Red Americans
- Dion Boucicault; John Brougham
- General Unconcern with Native Drama; Edwin Forrest; Charlotte Cushman; Edwin Booth; Lawrence Barrett
- Lester Wallack
- W. E. Burton
- The Search for Foreign Plays
- Augustin Daly
- Critics; Laurence Hutton; Brander Matthews; William Winter
- Bronson Howard
- Local Color
- Steele MacKaye
- The Theatres of the Eighties in New York
- The Star System; Theatrical Trusts; Charles and Daniel Frohman
- David Belasco
- Augustus Thomas
- Clyde Fitch
- James A. Herne
- William Gillette
- Charles Klein
- Lurid Melodrama
- Successful Novels on the Stage
- The Publication of Plays
- George Ade
- George M. Cohan
- William Vaughn Moody
- Later Literary Drama
- The Broadway School
- Tricks and Farces
- Independent Theatres; The New Theatre
- Pageants
- Secessionist Groups
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XIX. |
Later Magazines |
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By WILLIAM B. CAIRNS, Ph.D., Associate Professor of American Literature in the University of Wisconsin
- The Importance of the American Magazine
- Advertising
- Short Stories
- The North American Review
- Minor Reviews in New England and New York
- The South
- The Older Magazines Continued
- The Atlantic Monthly
- Harper’s Monthly Magazine
- Scribner’s Monthly; The Century Magazine
- Scribner’s Magazine
- Putnam’s Monthly Magazine and Its Successors
- The Galaxy
- The Overland Monthly
- The Ladies’ Home Journal
- Popular Magazines
- Muck-Raking; McClure’s Magazine
- Recent Developments
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XX. |
Newspapers Since 1860 |
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By FRANK W. SCOTT, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English in the University of Illinois
- The Newspapers of 1860
- Progress During the Civil War
- Correspondents
- Censorship
- The Influence of the Great Editors
- Mechanical Improvements
- Reconstruction
- Charles A. Dana and the New York Sun
- Weekly Papers; The Independent
- Harper’s Weekly
- The Nation
- The Decline of Editorials
- The Growth of Advertising
- The Associated Press; Foreign News Service
- Sensationalism; Joseph Pulitzer and the New York World
- William Randolph Hearst
- The Sunday Supplement
- Recent Tendencies
- Economic Bias Among Newspapers
- The New Importance of the Weekly and Monthly Papers
- Collier’s Weekly; The New Republic; The Weekly Review; The Liberator; The Survey; Reedy’s Mirror; The Dial; The Bellman; Party Organs
- Public Activities of Newspapers
- The World War
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Political Writing Since 1850 |
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By WILLIAM KENNETH BOYD, Ph.D., Professor of History in Trinity College, Durham, North Carolina
- The Change of Temper after 1850
- Pro-Slavery Arguments; Thomas R. Dew
- Attacks on Jefferson’s Ideas and on Modern Industrial Conditions
- States’ Rights and Secession
- Southern Writers Opposed to Secession; Francis Lieber
- Writers Opposed to Slavery
- Hinton Rowan Helper
- Northern Attitudes Toward Slavery
- The Fugitive Slave Law; Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- The Kansas-Nebraska Act; Charles Sumner
- The Dred Scott Decision
- National Theories During the War
- The Organic Theory; Sovereignty in the Nation
- Practical Problems of Nationality
- Opposition to the Administration
- Reconstruction Theories: Presidential, State Suicide, Conquered Province, Forfeited Rights
- Confederate Apologists
- Personal Memoirs, North and South
- Civil Service Reform
- Thomas A. Jenckes
- George William Curtis
- Tariff Reform
- David A. Wells
- William G. Sumner
- The Currency
- Agrarian Agitation
- Bimetallism
- The Knights of Labor
- The Trusts
- The Disfranchisement of the Negro
- New Doctrines
- Henry George; The Income Tax
- Edward Bellamy
- Criticism of Governmental Administration
- Imperialism and Expansion
- The Granger Movement; Populism
- Progressivism
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XXII. |
Lincoln |
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By NATHANIEL WRIGHT STEPHENSON, Professor of History in the College of Charleston
- The Mystery of Lincoln’s Temperament
- His Lack of Precocity
- Juvenilia
- Religion
- Pioneer Loneliness
- Mystical Faith
- First Period of Maturity
- Comic Writings
- Spiritual Enthusiasm for the Law
- Literature Applied to Practical Tasks
- Second Period of Maturity
- The Great Speeches of 1858–1860
- The Eclipse of the Winter of 1860–61
- The First Inaugural; Lincoln’s Final Manner
- Possible Influence of Seward
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XXIII. |
Education |
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By PAUL MONROE, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of the History of Education in Teachers College, Columbia University
- American Education Primarily Institutional
- The Colonies
- Virginia
- Pennsylvania
- New Netherland and New York
- New England; The Massachusetts Law of 1647
- The Apprentice System
- Elementary Schools
- Latin Grammar Schools
- Ezekiel Cheever
- Christopher Dock
- The New England Primer
- Colonial Colleges
- Franklin on Education
- Samuel Johnson; William Smith
- The Revolution
- Early National Legislation
- The Positions of the Fathers
- Thomas Jefferson
- DeWitt Clinton
- The Lancastrian System
- Pestalozzian Influences
- Textbooks
- Noah Webster
- Lindley Murray
- Jedidiah Morse
- Nicholas Pike
- Law Schools
- Medical Schools
- Private Societies
- Educational Periodicals
- The American Journal of Education
- Labour and Education
- Practical and Physical Education
- Educational Reports
- Horace Mann
- Henry Barnard
- Technical Literature of Education
- Free Schools
- Education for Girls
- Emma Hart Willard
- Mary Lyon
- State Universities
- College Problems
- Great College Presidents
- Lyceums
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Imaginative Literature Dealing with Education
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Locke Amsden
- The Hoosier Schoolmaster
- College Secret Societies; Phi Beta Kappa
- Memoirs by Educators
- Popular Problems of Education
- The Education of Henry Adams
- Books for and about Children
- The Literature of the Immigrant
- Important Writers on Educational Topics
- William James
- G. Stanley Hall
- Edward L. Thorndike
- William T. Harris
- John Dewey
- Foreign Observers
- General Conclusions
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