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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 3 : the Philadelphia period (search)
Chapter 3: the Philadelphia period
It is impossible to get the key to the early development of American literature without remembering that for fifty years the nation had no well-defined capital city, at least for literary purposes; and it had only a series of capitals, even politically.
In the very middle of the nineteenth century, James Russell Lowell was compelled to write as follows:
Our capital city, unlike London or Paris, is not a great central heart.... Boston, New York, Philadelphia, each has its literature, almost more distinct than those of the different dialects of Germany; and the young Queen of the West has also one of her own, of which some articulate rumor has barely reached us dwellers by the sea.
Our contributors, Graham's magazine, Feb., 1845.
In this local development of literature, Philadelphia, the first seat of our government, naturally took the lead.
The first monthly magazine, the first daily newspaper, the first religious magazine, the first
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 4 : the New York period (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 5 : the New England period — Preliminary (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 6 : the Cambridge group (search)
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 7 : the Concord group (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 8 : the Southern influence---Whitman (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 9 : the Western influence (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 10 : forecast (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, chapter 13 (search)