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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.) 16 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 4 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 2 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 1 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 4: the New York period (search)
r life. In 1811, however, he married, resigned from the navy, and became a man of leisure. His first strictly American novel appeared ten years later, and in the thirty years following he produced more than thirty novels, of which eight or ten are still widely read. Of these the Leather-Stocking tales are of course the most famous. Like Scott, Cooper was less successful with his heroes and heroines than with his minor characters. The conversation of his civilian worthies is, as Professor Lounsbury has said, in his admirable biography of Cooper, of a kind not known to human society. His women are particularly uninteresting, though in uniformly describing them as females he is simply conforming to the usage of his day. When he says of one heroine that her very nature is made up of religion and female decorum, and of another that on one occasion her little foot moved, in spite of the fact that she had been carefully taught too that even this beautiful portion of the female frame
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, chapter 13 (search)
l series, The Century Co., 1898. Franklin's Life, written by himself, edited by John Bigelow, 3 vols., J. B. Lippincott, 1874. Franklin's Works, edited by John Bigelow, 3 vols., Lippincott, 1875. Charles Brockden Brown's Novels, 6 vols., McKay, Philadelphia, 1887. Chapter 4: the New York period (A) Life and letters of Washington Irving, by Pierre M. Irving, 4 vols., G. P. Putnam, 1862-64. C. D. Warner's Washington Irving, in American men of letters series, 1881. T. R. Lounsbury's James Fenimore Cooper, in American men of letters series, 1883. P. Godwin's Life of Bryant, 2 vols., D. Appleton, 1878. H. A. Beers's Nathaniel Parker Willis, in American men of letters series, 1885. E. Cary's George William Curtis, in American men of letters series, 1894. (B) Good editions of Irving and Cooper are so numerous as to need no specification. The standard edition of Bryant is P. Godwin's, 4 vols., D. Appleton & Co., 1883-1884. For critical estimates o