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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.) 12 0 Browse Search
Matthew Arnold, Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America. 4 0 Browse Search
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Matthew Arnold, Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America., II: a word about America. (search)
e to us in the future, yet they were not of much use to our civilization now. I remember, that when I first read the Boston newspaper from which I have been quoting, I was just fresh from the perusal of one of the best of Mr. James's novels, Roderick Hudson. That work carries us to one of the smaller cities of the interior, a city of which, I own, I had never heard — the American Northampton. Those who have read Roderick Hudson will recollect, that in that part of the story where the scene isRoderick Hudson will recollect, that in that part of the story where the scene is laid at Northampton, there occurs a personage called Striker, an auctioneer. And when I came upon the Boston newspaper's assurances that, in almost every small town of the Union, I should find an elegant and simple social order, the comment which rose to my lips was this: I suspect what I should find there, in great force, is Striker. Now Striker was a Philistine. I have said somewhere or other that, whereas our society in England distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines, and Popul
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Standard and popular Library books, selected from the catalogue of Houghton, Mifflin and Co. (search)
5. I., II. Memoirs of Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina, Margravine of Baireuth. III. Lord Herbert of Cherbury, and Thomas Ellwood. IV. Vittorio Alfieri. V. Carlo Goldoni. VI. Edward Gibbon. VII., VIII. Francois Marmontel. Thomas Hughes. Tom Brown's School-Days at Rugby. $1.00. Tom Brown at Oxford. 16mo, $1.25. The Manliness of Christ. 16mo, gilt top, $1.00. Henry James, Jr. Passionate Pilgrim and other Tales. $2.00. Transatlantic Sketches. 12mo, $2.00. Roderick Hudson. 12mo, $2.00. The American. 12mo, $2.00. Watch and Ward. 18mo, $1.25. The Europeans. 12mo, $1.50. Confidence. 12mo, $1.50. The Portrait of a Lady. $2.00. Mrs. Anna Jameson. Writings upon Art subjects. 10 vols. 18mo, each $.50o. Sarah O. Jewett. Deephaven. 18mo, $1.25. Old Friends and New. 18mo, $1.25. Country By-Ways. 18mo, $1.25. Play-Days. Stories for Children. Sq. 16mo, $1.50. Rossiter Johnson. Little Classics. Eighteen handy volumes con
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 6: the short story (search)
e surpassed Hale in what may be called the art of verisimilitude. He was the precursor of Stockton. A story like My double and how he Undid me is manifestly a tour de force, yet one is in danger of gravely accepting it as a fact. Hale added to the short story not alone the sense of reality; he added plausibility as well. With Henry James See also Book III, Chap. XII. the period of transition came to an end. From 1865, when he published his first story, until 1875, the date of Roderick Hudson, he devoted himself to short fiction, contributing fourteen stories to the Atlantic alone, and he brought to his work not only the best art America had evolved, but the best of England and France as well. He was a scientist, an observer, a tabulator, as cool and accurate as even his brother William James, the psychologist. Unlike O'Brien and the others, he threw away completely the machinery of the mid-century tale—not without regret it would appear from his Romance of certain old Clo
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)
James Whitcomb, 363, 409 Rill from the town Pump, a, 22 Rip Van Winkle, 368, 401 Ripley, George, 9, 166, 192, 197, 210, 211 Rise of the Dutch republic, 129, 136, 137, 138, 140, 141 Ritchie, Alexander H., 172 Ritchie, Thomas, 183, 184, 185 River fight, the, 282 Rives, J. C., 120 Rives, John P., 183 Roane, Judge, Spencer, 84-85 Robert of Lincoln, 241 Robertson, J. M., 63 n., 66 n., 67 n. Robertson, William, 129 Robinson Crusoe, 12, 401 n. Robin Hood, 408 Roderick Hudson, 375 Rollo books, 400 Romance of certain old Clothes, 375 Rome, T. H., 264 n. Romero, S., 356 n. Root, George Frederick, 285 Rose in Bloom, 402 Rose of Sharon, a religious Souvenir, a, 174 Ross, Clinton, 388 Rossetti, W. M., 266, 271 Rousseau, 197, 205 Royster, Sarah Elmira, 56, 60 Rudder Grangers abroad, 388 Ruskin, 213, 245, 254, 339, 340 Russell, Benj., 180 Russell, Irwin, 351, 353-354 Russell's magazine, 293 Running the Batteries, 279, 284
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 10: a New nation (search)
in order to show his sympathy with the Empire, then at war. It was the sole evidence of political emotion in a lifetime of seventy-three years. American writing men are justly proud, nevertheless, of this expatriated craftsman. The American is inclined to admire good workmanship of any kind, as far as he can understand the mechanism of it. The task of really understanding Henry James has been left chiefly to clever women and to a few critics, but ever since A passionate Pilgrim and Roderick Hudson appeared in 1875, it has been recognized that here was a master, in his own fashion. What that fashion is may now be known by anyone who will take the pains to read the author's prefaces to the New York edition of his revised works. Never, not even in the Paris which James loved, has an artist put his intentions and his self-criticism more definitively upon paper. The secret of Henry James is told plainly enough here: a specially equipped intelligence, a freedom from normal responsib
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Index. (search)
Reality of spiritual life, the, Edwards 50 Reaper and the Flowers, the, Longfellow 153 Red Rover, the, Cooper 98 Religious freedom in the colonies, 16 Ren, ChAteaubriand 96 Repplier, Agnes, 262 Revolution, influence upon literature, 66 et seq.; bibliography, 270 Rights of man, the, Paine 75 Riley, J. W., 247, 257-59 Ripley, George, 141 Rise of Silas Lapham, the, Howells 251 Rise of the Dutch Republic, Motley 180 Rivulet, the, Bryant 106 Robinson, John, 11 Roderick Hudson, James 253 Rolfe, John, 38 Romanticism in American literature, 187 et seq. Roosevelt, Theodore, 243 Roughing it, Clemens 10, 237 Rowlandson, Mary, 39 Rules for Reducing a great Empire to a Small one, Franklin 58 Russell, Irwin, 246 Salem witchcraft, 43 Salmagundi papers, Irving and Paulding 91 Sanborn, F. B., 142 Sandys, George, 27 Scarlet letter, the, Hawthorne 7, 30, 145, 146, 148, 149-50 School-days, Whittier 158 Scott, Sir, Walter, 95 Scribner's mo
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)
ee groups, falling chronologically into three periods. In the first period, extending from Roderick Hudson to The Bostonians, 1875 to 1885, the leading characters are invariably Americans, though thunt before the appearance of The passionate Pilgrim in 1871. His first important novel was Roderick Hudson, published in The Atlantic in 1875. His first and only approach to popularity, whether in ference to form and method a more illuminating division would be one of two periods: first, Roderick Hudson to The tragic muse, 1875-1890; and second, The spoils of Poynton to The sense of the past, rlier period, what may be considered more ambitious themes in the matter of psychology. In Roderick Hudson, for example, he undertakes to trace the degeneration of a man of genius, a young American umes see Ms. catalogue in the Library of Congress. There is extant the manuscript journal of Captain Hudson, who commanded one of the ships; and Lieutenant (later Admiral) Colvocoresses attached to th
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)
he, 153 Robbin, Bobbin, Richard, and John, 511 Robert Carlton. See Hale, B. R. Roberts, John, 432 Robertson, T. W., 269, 270, 276 Robertson, William, 188 Robespierre, 380 Robinson, Alfred, 139 Robinson, Edward, 586 Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 65 Robinson, Tracy, 162 Robinson Crusoe, 17 Robinson Crusoe's money, 439 Roche, Mrs., 541 Rochester Theological Seminary, 215 Rockhill, W. W., 164 Rocky Mountain adventures, 142 Rocky Mountain Survey, 158 Roderick Hudson, 98, 103 Rodolphe de Branchelievre, 595 Roe, Edward Payson, 73, 74, 75, 89 Roger, 526 Rogers, John, 391 Robert, 540 n. Robert, Samuel, 96 Roget, 480 Roland Blake, 90 Rolls series, 175 Rolnik, Joseph, 604 Roman holidays, 83 Roman singer, a, 88 Romance, 294 Romance of a poor young man, the, 269 Romance of Dollard, the, 90 Romance of the Colorado River, the, 158 Rombro, J., 600 Romish Lady, the, 510 Ronsard, 458 Roosevelt, Theodore, 140, 256,