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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.) 4 0 Browse Search
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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 6: the short story (search)
; second, the exhibitors of strange material objectively presented,—Charles Egbert Craddock, Octave Thanet, and the dialect recorders of the eighties; and third, the veritists of the nineties who told what they considered to be the unidealized truth concerning the life they knew,— Garland, Miss Wilkins, Frank Norris, See also Book III, Chap. XI. and the rest. This third group approached its task scientifically, stated its doctrines with clearness,—as for example in Hamlin Garland's Crumbling Idols,—and then proceeded to work out its careful pictures with deliberate art. Garland's Main-Travelled Roads, stories of the settlement period of the Middle Border, have no golden light upon them. They tell the truth with brutal directness and they tell it with an art that convinces. They are not mere stories; they are living documents in the history of the West. So with the Maupassant-like pictures of later New England conditions by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, in A Humble Romance (1887) a
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)
quirer, 183, 187, 193 Courtship of Miles Standish and other poems, the, 38 Cowper, 40, 238 Cox, Palmer, 408 Cox, William, 151 Cozzens, Frederick Swartout, 154 Crabbe, George, 50 Cranch, C. P., 166, 183 Crashaw, 343 Crayon sketches, 151 Crismus times is come, 330 Critic, the, 263 n. Crockett, David, Autobiography, 151 Cross, Marian Evans, 172, 371, 372, 375 Cross of snow, the, 40 Crossing at Fredericksburg, the, 281 Cruise of the Monitor, the, 282 Crumbling Idols, 390 Cry to Arms, a, 295, 298, 303 Crystal, the, 344 Cudjo's Cave, 405 Culver, Judge, 267 Cumberland, the (Longfellow), 282 Cumberland, the (Melville), 279, 282 Curry, J. L. M., 320, 321 Curtis, G. W., 167, 192 Cushing, Caleb, 164 Dabney, Richard. See Bibliography to Book III, Chap. in Dabney, Thomas, 314 Daily Advertiser, the (Boston), 180, 181, 185 Daily Confederate, the, 302 Daily Crescent, the, 263, 263 n. Daily times (Brooklyn), 267 Daisy