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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.) 6 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)
o the mother country—a task in itself not without its incongruous aspect. During the period that followed the Revolution the colonists doubtless told their stories of war and sea, swapped yarns, and recounted deeds of adventure along the frontier, but little has remained to show the character of the writing and to enable us to know what impression it made upon the time. There was not a little humorous political and satirical verse. Certain writers, like William Austin, Irving, Paulding, Drake, Halleck, Sands, Verplanck, brought into American literature an estimable sort of humour, but little was produced by any of them that had an emphatically native quality. About the time of Andrew Jackson, along with the birth of popular national self-consciousness, the emergence of the frontier as a social entity in the nation's imagination, and the rise to power of the newspaper (for almost without exception the professional American humorists have been newspapermen), the kind of humour t
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 5: dialect writers (search)
negro character were William Gilmore Simms, See also Book II, Chap. VII. Edgar Allan Poe, See also Book II, Chap. XIV. Harriet Beecher Stowe, See also Book III, Chap. XI. Stephen Collins Foster, and Irwin Russell. Hector, the negro slave in Simms's Yemassee (1835), and Jupiter in Poe's Gold-Bug (1843) are alike in many respects. Both belong to the type of faithful body servant, For the body servant in later literature see The negro in Southern literature since the War, by B. M. Drake (Dissertation, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1898), pp. 21-22. both are natives of the coastal region of South Carolina, both illustrate a primitive sort of humour, and both speak an anglicized form of Gullah (Gulla) dialect. Of the two, Hector is the better portrayed. His refusal (in Chapter 51) to accept freedom when it is offered to him by his owner is by no means surprising; it is an evidence rather of Simms's familiarity with negro character and a reminder of the anomalous pos
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)
re of language as related to thought and spirit, 212 Divine comedy, the, 40 Divine tragedy, the, 39 Divinity School address, 20, 209 Dixie, 291, 292, 303, 305 Dobson, Austin, 243 Doctor Byles's cat, 149 Dodd, W. E., 75 n. Dodge, Mary Mapes, 402, 409 Dodgson, C. L., 408 Donald and Dorothy, 402 Donne, 343 Dorothy Q., 239, 341 Dotty Dimple books, 402 Douglass, Frederick, 351 Douw, Gerard, 49 Dowden, Edward, 271 Do Ye Quail?, 308 Doyle, Pete, 271 Drake, B. M., 351 n. Drake, J. R., 150 Drayton, William Henry, 104, 105 Dreaming in the trenches, 291, 303 Dream-Land, 66 Dred Scott case, 89 Driving home the Cows, 286 Drum, the. See Reveille, the Drummer boy's burial, the, 286 Drummond of Hawthornden, 340 Drum Taps, 269, 270 Dryden, 5, 125, 237 Duane, Wm., 181 Dublin University, 373 DuBois, W. E. Burghardt, 351 Dubourg, Miss, 55 Dudley, Anne, 225 Dudley, Thomas, 225 Duganne, A. J. H., 280 Dukesborough