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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 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
ke. Canonge shares with Lussan, Dugue, Testut, and others the honour of creating an indigenous drama based on local history and manners. Both he and Lussan treated a famous crisis in colonial history, the Revolution of 1768, in which leading French colonists unsuccessfully opposed the accessicn of the new Spanish governor and were led to execution. Plays on this and kindred subjects found eager audiences from about 1840 on to the Civil War. In 1836 Charles Gayarre had published his Essai Historique, which was widely read and which led the imaginations of many back to the past. A. Lussan based his play, Les martyrs de la Louisiane (1839), directly upon the account of the Revolution which Gayarre had so dramatically rendered. The play is conceived somewhat in the spirit of Victor Hugo; it is in verse, in five acts, and is dedicated to the martyrs of 1769. Very little is known of Lussan's life. Canonge's play on the Revolution of 1768, France et Espagne (1850), follows history le
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.), Index (search)
l sciences, the, 247 End of the World, the, 76 Englehardt, Fr. Zephyrin, 139 English and Scottish popular ballads, 484, 485 English grammar (Murray), 401 English-Greek Lexicon (Yonge), 461 English lands, letters, and kings, 112 English Phonology, 448 English reader (Murray), 401 Enquiry into the principles and tendencies of certain public measures, 432 Enterprise (Virginia City), 3 Epictetus, 119, 445, 460 Equitable Commerce, 437 Erato, 597 Esmeralda, 285 Essai Historique, 592 Essais Poetiques, 596 Essay concerning silver and paper, an, 426 Essay on currency, 426 Essay on the causes of the decline of foreign trade, an, 429 Essay on the domestic debts of the United States, an, 429 Essay on the laws of trade in reference to the works of internal improvement, an, 434 Essay on the principles of political Economy (An American), 434 Essay on the principles of political Economy (Anon.), 431 Essay on the rate of wages, 435 Essays an