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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 10 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 18: Prescott and Motley (search)
minently than all others from colonial days to Mark Twain: Henry Wheeler Shaw, Josh Billings (1818-85); David Ross Locke, Petroleum V. Nasby (1833-88); and Charles Farrar Browne, Artemus Ward (834-67). The first of these, a child of Massachusetts, wandered out to Ohio and finally settled as an auctioneer in New York State, whereted attention—he was the first of the misspellers—his plaintive personality proved more attractive still, and may prove permanently so. Derby, Shaw, Locke, and Browne carried to an extreme numerous tricks already invented by earlier American humorists, particularly the tricks of gigantic exaggeration and calm-faced mendacity, bprincipal inspiration from the differences between that frontier and the more settled and compact regions of the country, and reached its highest development in Mark Twain, in his youth a child of the American frontier, admirer and imitator of Derby and Browne, and eventually a man of the world and one of its greatest humoris
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
260 Argonaut, the, 387 Argus, the (Croswell, E.), 183 Argus of Western America, the (Kendall, G. W.), 184 Aristotle, 197, 320 Arme Heinrich, der, 39 Arnold, George, 242 Arnold, Matthew, 203, 245, 253, 254 Artemus Ward. See Browne, C. F. Arthur, Chester A., 110 Ascham, Roger, 124 Ashby, Turner, 305, 306 Ashes of glory, 309 Aspern papers, the, 376 Astroea at the Capital, 283 Astronomy and General physics considered with reference to natural theology, 221 lbridge, 404 Brooks, Noah, 400, 405 Broomstick Train, the, 237 Brotherhood, 328 Bother Jonathan, 187 Brother Jonathan's lament for sister Caroline, 279 Brown, Alice, 390 Brown, Charles Brockden, 162 Brown, John, 6, 279 Browne, Charles Farrar, 157, 158, 159 Browne, Francis F., 303, 304 Browne, Sir, Thomas, 124, 349 Brownell, Henry Howard, 277-278, 279, 281, 282, 284, 285 Brownie books, 408 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 252 Browning, Robert, 137, 245 Brown of Oss