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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)
authoritative scholarship. Hallam, Guizot, Milman, Sismondi, Thierry, were among those to give Prescott not condescending but cordial welcome as one of their own rank. Such an authority as C. P. Gooch states in 1913 that the work published in 1837 has not been superseded to this day. Research has brought, indeed, masses of documents to light that Prescott never heard of. Critics differ from him in conclusions—strange if they did not. Yet there is more serious difference of opinion between Vignaud and Harrisse, both writing on Columbus in the twentieth 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 re
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)
gia, 320, 321, 325 Up from slavery, 324, 351 Upidee, 408 Upon the Hill before Centreville, 278, 280 Van Buren, Martin, 116, 151, 183 Vance, Zebulon Baird, 318, 320 Vanderbilt University, 351 n. Varuna, the, 282 Verplanck, G. C., 150, 164, 174, 400 Very, Jones, 166 Vicar of Wakefield, the, 349 Vicarious sacrifice, the, 213 Victor of Antietam, the, 279, 281 View of the Primary causes and movements of the thirty years War, a, 146 Views of Calvinism, 210 Vignaud, H., 128 Village, the, 50 Village Blacksmith, the, 36 Virgil, 2, 3 Virginia, 306 Virginia negro, the, 316 Virginians of the Valley, the, 299, 303 306 Vision of Sir Launfal, the, 251 Visit from Saint Nicholas, 241, 408 Voices of freedom, 46 Voltaire, 126, 128, 230 Voices of the night, 34 Vondel, 225 Voyage of the good ship Union, 303 Wadsworth family, the, 32 Waif, the, 35 Wait for the wagon, 298 Waiting for news, 286 Wakefield, 24 Walden, or li