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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.) 8 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 6: fiction I — Brown, Cooper. (search)
otte Temple. Hugh Henry Brackenridge. modern Chivalry. Charles Brockden Brown. Alcuin. Arthur Mervyn. Wieland. Ormond. Brown's indebtedness to Godwin. Edgar Huntly. Isaac Mitchell. Tabitha Tenney. Samuel Woodworth. James Fenimore Cooper. youth. naval career. Precaution. the spy. the pioneers. the pilot. the las he had a kind of ghoulish force. Without the deftness to get full value from his material, he had still a sharp eye for what was picturesque or dramatic. In Edgar Huntly, for which Brown was considerably indebted to the memory of Sky-Walk, he made notable use of that pioneer life which was to bulk so large in American fiction fface repeats his earlier plea, as Speratus, for native matter in native fiction. From that ideal he never swerved. The plague, Wieland's frenzy, Queen Mab in Edgar Huntly,these he had studied from the facts as he knew them. That his books are not more realistic proves merely that he was a romancer interested primarily in ideas
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)
., 231, 232, 288 Dunlap Soc. Pub., 216 n., 225 n. Dunster, John, 156 Dunton, John, 54 Durang, C., 221, 221 n., 223 n., 226, 226 n., 231 n. Dutchman's fireside, the, 311 Dwight, Theodore, 164 Dwight, Timothy, 156, 163-165, 167, 172, 175, 187, 190, 191, 208, 212, 233, 292 Dyer, Mary, 8 Dying Indian, the, 183 E Early American realism, 289 Early opera in America, 216 n. Early plays at Harvard, 216 n. Early Virginia play, an, 216 n. Echo, the, 175, 261 Edgar Huntly, 291 Edict by the King of Prussia, an, 98, 102 Edinburgh review, the, 90, 206, 207 Edwards, Jonathan, 9, 57-71, 72, 73, 76, 80, 85, 104, 163, 284, 329, 330, 348, 355, 356 Eighth of January, the, 222, 226 Elegy on the times, 171 Elementa Philosophica, 81, 84, 85, 85 n. Elijah's translation, 158 Eliot, George, 279 Eliot, John, 25, 41-43, 46, 156 Ellet, Mrs., Elizabeth, 224 Elliott, Jonathan, 147 n. Ellis, H. M., 233 n. Ellsworth, Oliver, 148 Embargo, 150,