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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.) 4 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)
y (1762-1837) produced a funny if robustious anti-romance, Female Quixotism (1808?); Samuel Woodworth See also Book II, Chaps. II and V. mingled conventional history with conventional romance in The Champions of freedom (1816), which celebrated the second war with England. By this time the humane and thrilling art of Scott had already begun to be effective in America, as in Europe. At the first, however, Scott's peculiar qualities seemed to defy rivalry. Of native novels, said John Bristed in 1818, we have no great stock, and none good; our democratic institutions placing all the people on a dead level of political equality; and the pretty equal diffusion of property throughout the country affords but little room for varieties, and contrasts of character; nor is there much scope for fiction, as the country is quite new, and all that has happened from the first settlement to the present hour, respecting it, is known to every one. There is, to be sure, some traditionary roma
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)
dock, General, 96 Bradford, Andrew,I15, I 6, 121 Bradford, Gov., William, 19-21, 22, 23, 27, 152 Bradford, William (printer), 95 Bradstreet, Anne, III, 154-156, 157, 278 Bradstreet, Simon, 154 Brant, Joseph, 202 Bravo, the, 301 Brayley, Rev., James, 153 Bread and Cheese Club, 297 Brewster, Benjamin H., 222 Brief account of the Agency of the Honorable John Winthrop, a, 152 Brief remarks on the defence of the Halifax libel, etc., 128 Brillon, Mme., 100 Bristed, John, 293 British prison ship, the, 182 British review, the, 206 British spy in Boston, the, 237 n. Broker of Bogota, 222,224 Brook Farm, 339-340, 345 Brooke, Henry, 165 Brother Jonathan, 309 Brothers, Thomas, 207 Brougham, John, 232 Brown, Charles Brockden, 287-292, 293, 295, 307, 308, 313 Brown, David Paul, 223 n., 224--John, 344 Brown, T. A., 227 n. Browne, Sir, Thomas, 104, 322 Browning, 261, 264, 266, 268, 274 Brownson, Orestes A., 333 Bruce, P. A.,
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)
thy of notice are S. Blodgett, Jr.'s Thoughts on the increasing wealth and natural economy of the United States (1801) and Economica (1806); Timothy Dwight's Statistical account of Connecticut (1811); R. Dickinson's A geographical and statistical Review of Massachusetts (1813); and Moses Greenleaf's Statistical view of Maine (1816). Widely read were Adam Seybert's Statistical annals (1818), D. B. Warden's Statistical, political, and historical account of the United States (3 vols., 1819), John Bristed's Resources of the United States (1818), and William Darby's Universal Gazetteer (1827) and View of the United States, historical, geographical, and statistical (1828). We may also mention that the discussion on the recharter of the bank was responsible for Dr. Erick Bollman's Paragraphs on Banks (Philadelphia, 1810) and the Letters of common sense Respecting the State bank and paper currency (Raleigh, 1811). There is only one author of prominence during this period and he was in many
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)
, 555 Bridgman, Dr., 144 Brief examination of Lord Sheffield's observations on the Commerce of the United States, 430 Brief history of the English language, 462 Brief narrative (Zenger trial), 535 Briefwechsel (Schlozer), 577 Briggs, C. A., 203-4, 205, 206, 207 Briggs, C. F., 313 Brigham's destroying angel, 143 Bright, James Wilson, 459, 480 n. Brighton, 275 Brinsley, George, 183 Brinton, Daniel, 619, 620 Brisbane, Albert, 437 Brisk young lover, a, 510 Bristed, John, 432 Broadhurst, George, 289, 293 Brodhead, J. R., 173, 175, 179 Brooks, A. H., 167 Brooks, Phillips, 218-225 Brotherhead, W., 545 n. Brother Jonathan, 547 Brothers, Thos., 437 Brougham, John, 267, 268 Brown, A. J., 165 Brown, Alice, 291, 294 Brown, C. B., 68, 542, 546, 548 Brown, Frank M., 158 Brown, J. C., 183 Brown, John, 496 Brown, W., 438 Browne, Charles F., 4, 7, 22, 23, 375 Browne, Sir, Thomas, 34 Brownell, H. H., 496 Browning, E. B., 34 B