1st Edition

American Literature in Context 1830-1865

By Brian Harding Copyright 1982
258 Pages
by Routledge

257 Pages
by Routledge

257 Pages
by Routledge

First published between 1982 and 1983, this series examines the peculiarly American cultural context out of which the nation’s literature has developed. Covering the years from 1830 to 1865, this second volume of American Literature in Context examines twelve major American writers of the three decades before the Civil War, including Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau,... Read more

General Editor’s Preface; Introduction; 1. William Ellery Channing 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson 3. Edgar Allan Poe 4. George Bancroft 5. Nathaniel Hawthorne 6. Orestes A. Brownson 7. Francis Parkman 8. Henry David Thoreau 9. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Herman Melville 11. Walt Whitman 12. Abraham Lincoln; Index

Biography

Brian Harding