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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 5 1 Browse Search
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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.) 4 0 Browse Search
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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.), Book III (continued) (search)
ur early literature. Webster further says that the educated men of the smaller towns and the professors of the Northern colleges generally are favourable to American publications, but that the large cities are strongholds of British subserviency. Thus American scholarship began to assert itself during the opening decades of the nineteenth century with more real vigour than did American belles-lettres, for against the popularity of Mackenzie, Mrs. Radcliffe, Mrs. Roche, Hannah More, Jane Porter, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Chapone, Miss Williams, Mrs. Rowson See Book II, Chap. VI. (in part, however, to be claimed as American), and later of Scott, 500,000 volumes of whose novels were issued from the American press in the nine years ending with 1823, the struggle was desperate. There were no restraints, either legal or ethical, at this period to prohibit the publication of these authors; and the publishers issued them in large numbers, sometimes in chap-books as low as five cents. Moreo
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)
olitical ethics, 342 Pollard, E. A., 182, 352 Pollock, Channing, 296 Polyglott, 479 Pontiac, 189 Poore, B. P., 351 Poor Floella, 512 Poor Florella, 515 Poor little rich girl, the, 292 Poor Lorella, 512 Poor of New York, the, 270 Poor Richard's Almanac, 393 Pope, 77, 487, 539, 542 Popular Science Monthly, 236, 243 n. Popular Tribunals, 196 Popular view of the doctrines of Fourier, 437 Porcupine Gazette, the, 494 Porphyrogenitus, 41 Porphyry, 465 Porter, Jane, 541 Porter, Noah, 240, 477 Porter, Valentine Mott, 143 Porter, W. S., 30, 498 Portrait of a Lady, the, 98, 102, 104, 106 Portraits Litteraires de la Nouvelle-Orleans, 593 Positions to be examined concerning national wealth, 428 Possart, 588 Post, C. C., 161 Post-dispatch (St. Louis), 329 Postl, Karl, 579 Potiphar papers, 114, 313 Potter, A., 434 Potter, Bishop, 136, 163 Poucha-Houmma, 591 Pound, Roscoe, 265 Poverty (Spooner), 437 Poverty (Steward),