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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)
the happy union of humanitarian sentiment, scientific psychological knowledge, and attractive literary form. One type of literature is peculiar to America, the literature of the immigrant. Much of this is educational, for the whole process of making the immigrant into the citizen of the adopted country is an educational one of scarcely realized importance. Of fascinating interest also are the literary accounts of the process. First among these was The making of an American (1901) by Jacob Riis, a newspaper reporter and social reformer, of Danish birth. The reminiscences (1907) of Carl Schurz, the soldier, statesman, and liberal political leader, of German birth, are quite the most voluminous and important of these books from the general, though not from the educational, point of view. The numerous volumes of Edward A. Steiner, of Bohemian origin, cover the experience of a successful educator, lecturer, and sociologist in a variety of phases of American life. Chief among his w
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)
raphy, 198 Richard savage, 280 Richardson, Abby S., 280 Richardson, Samuel, 105, 538 Richter, Fernande, 581 Ride of Billy Venero, the, 514 Ride of Paul Venarez, 514 Rider of Dreams, the, 267 Riders of the stars, 161 Ride with Kit Carson through the Great American Desert and the Rocky Mountains, A, 150 Riedesel, Baroness von, 577 Rien on Moi, 596 Rigdon, Sidney, 520 Riggs, Kate Douglas Wiggin, 288 Rights of man to property, the, 436 Rihbany, Abraham M., 421 Riis, Jacob, 420 Riley, J. I., 7 Riley, James Whitcomb, 27, 31, 37, 59-62, 261 n., 264 n. Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 295 Ripley, George, 472 Rip Van Winkle, 268 Rise and fall of the Confederate government, 182, 351 Rise of David Levinsky, the, 606, 607 Rise of Silas Lapham, the, 80 Ritschl, 465 Rittig, J., 582 Rival Suitors for America, the, 494 River of the West, the, 153 Robbin, Bobbin, Richard, and John, 511 Robert Carlton. See Hale, B. R. Roberts, John, 432 Robe