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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)
entieth century, than between Prescott and Justin Winsor, in the first and second halves of the nineteenth. Stimulated by the prompt recognition accorded to him, Prescott turned to his next venture, The Conquest of Mexico. It is characteristic of his methods that his first step towards beginning the narration in which one figure, Hernando Cortes, was to hold the centre of the stage, was the examination of certain celebrated biographical records of exploits—Voltaire's Charles XII, Livy's Hannibal, Irving's Columbus. His criticism of the last is that the interest flags at the end. That is just what can be said of his own Mexico, finished in 1844. Where the glow of achievement is ahead of his hero, the narrative marches and carries the reader on. Or is it that Bernal Diaz carries the story triumphantly up to the Aztec city? Prescott's method of assimilating his authority, instead of giving excerpts, was used to good purpose here, and his paraphrases are very vivid. For instance, i
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)
Hale, Nathan, 184, 185 Hale, Sarah J., 168, 398, 399, 408 Haliburton, Judge, Thomas Chandler, 151 Hall, Basil, 127 Hall, Charles Sprague, 279 Hall, James, 163 Hallam, Henry, 128 Halleck, Benjamin Buel, 260 Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 150, 167 Halpine, Charles Graham, 155, 279, 284, 286 Hamerik, Asger, 336 Hamilton, Alexander, 74, 84, 180, 181, 184 Hamilton, Gail, 402 Hamilton, Sir, William, 219 Hammett, Samuel A., 155 Hammond, Charles, 184 Hampton Institute, 324 Hannibal, 128 Hans Brinker, 402 Harbinger, the, 166 Harlan, Jas., 270 Harned, Thomas B., 265 n., 266 n., 272, 272 n. Harper's magazine, 168, 169, 303, 371, 373, 381 Harris, G. W., 153 Harris, J. C., 303, 347-350, 352 n., 353, 354-360, 365, 379, 388, 389, 408 Harrson, Benjamin, 93 n., 191 Harrson, J. A., 61 n., 65 n. Harrisse, H., 128 Harte, Bret, 242, 281, 284, 286, 360, 362, 363, 365, 377-381, 382, 383, 384, 385, 387, 388, 389, 391, 394 Harvard, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 13, 33,