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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 7: fiction II--contemporaries of Cooper. (search)
s of his native town. With Peter Hoffman Cruse he issued The red Book (1818-19), See also Book II, Chap. V. a kind of Baltimore Salmagundi in prose and verse, and after several years devoted to law and politics made a decided success with Swallow Barn (1832), obviously suggested by Bracebridge Hall but none the less notable as a pioneer record of the genial life of a Virginia plantation. Although the story counts for little, Kennedy's easy humour and real skill at description and the indicels, Horse-Shoe Robinson (1835), in which he dealt with the Revolution in the Carolinas, and Rob of the bowl (1838), which has its scene laid in colonial Maryland, are nearer Cooper, with the difference that Kennedy depended, as he had done in Swallow Barn, on fact not invention for almost all his action as well as for his details of topography and costume. Indeed, he founded the career of Horse-Shoe Robinson upon that of an actual partisan with such care that the man is said later to have app
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
iles, Ezra, 91, 103 Stith, Rev., William, 26, 27 Stoddard, Solomon, 57, 61, 64 Stone, John Augustus, 221, 225, 226, 230 Stoughton, William, 48 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 231 Strahan, William, 99 Stranger, the, 219 Strictures on a pamphlet, entitled a friendly address to all Reasonable Americans, 138 Sullivan, James, 148 Summary view of the rights of British America, etc., A, 142 Summer Wind, 272 Superstition, 220, 225 Survey of the Summe of Church discipline, 47 Swallow Barn, 311 Swift, 91, 98, 109, 112, 115, 116, 287, 320 Sword and the Distaff, the, 315 Sybil, 225 n. Sydney, Letters of, 148 Sylvester, Joshua, 154, 155, 158 T Table talk, 194 Tablet, 234 Tale of a Tub, a, 112, 118 Tale of Cloudland, a, 273 Tales (Byron), 280 Tales of a traveller, 246, 256 Tales of the border, 318 Tales of the Glauber Spa, 278 n. Talisman, the, 240 Taller, I 115, I 16 Tears and Smiles, 220, 227 Tennent, Gilbert, 77 Tenney, Tabit