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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 18: Prescott and Motley (search)
olume of his sketches of New York life; the leading one, called The little Frenchman and his water Lots, is a pathetic but graphic account of a little French merchant duped by a Manhattan real estate dealer. The Annals of Quodlibet, a political satire by Solomon Secondthought, schoolmaster (1840), by John Pendleton Kennedy, has been treated elsewhere in this history. See Book II, Chap. VII. The influence of Dickens is potent in Charcoal sketches or scenes in a metropolis (1840), by Joseph Clay Neal (1807-47), whose work was seen through the press in England by Dickens himself. Of more importance in these times was Georgia scenes (1835), a series of inimitable and clear—cut pictures of the rude life of the South-east, by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790– 1870). Longstreet, who was the son of a prominent inventor, graduated at Yale, and won distinction as lawyer, judge, newspaper editor, Methodist minister, and president of Emory College. His realistic descriptions of country
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)
ntucky home, 353 My springs, 345 My study Windows, 247 My wife and child, 290, 299 Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, the, 58 Nation, the, 187 National era, the, 47 National Gazette, 181 National Intelligencer, the (1800), 83 National Intelligencer, the (1841), 183 National journal, the, 119 National magazine, the, 161 National ode, 279 Native of Winby, a, 383 Natural History of Selborne, 201 Nature (Emerson), 20 Nature and the supernatural, 213 Neal, Joseph Clay, 152 Negative Gravity, 386 Negro in literature and art, the, 351 n. Negro in Southern literature since the War, The, 351 n. Nelson family, the, 306 Newbery, John, 396 Newell, R. H., 156 New England girlhood, a, 399 New England magazine, the, 19, 165 New England Nun, a, 390 New England Primer, 396 New England review, the, 45 New England's annoyances, 148 New England's Rareties, 149 New England tragedies, the, 37, 39 New essays towards a