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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
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 4 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 2 0 Browse Search
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.) 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 1 1 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)
owing the war was an era of self-discovery. America was as full of new and interesting life and environment as even Europe, and for two decades and more American writers exploited the strange new riches of the land as the first wave of placer miners excitedly rifle the nugget pockets of a new-found bonanza. Eagerly the public read of the picturesque conditions that had evolved from the California rush of '49; it wondered at the new world that Mark Twain revealed in his Jumping frog of Calaveras County, and that Cable opened in old Creole New Orleans, and at the grotesque Hoosier types revealed by Eggleston; it thrilled with astonishment at Charles Egbert Craddock's pictures of the dwellers in the Tennessee Mountains, and at Octave Thanet's revelations of life in the canebrakes of Arkansas; and it lingered over the Old South before the war as revealed by Johnston, and Harris, and Page. Never was movement launched with more impetus. No sooner had The luck of Roaring camp reached th
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)
E., Richard Malcolm, 316, 318, 320, 347, 365, 379, 389 Jonas books, 400 Jonathan to John, 280 Jones, Charles Colcock, Jr., 316-318, 322 Josh Billings. See Shaw, H. W. Josselyn, John, 149 Journal (N. Y.), 178 Journal (Louisville), 281 Journal of American Folk-Lore, 356 n. Journal of an African Cruiser, 21 Journal of a solitary man, the, 19 Journal of commerce, 187 J. R. S. (pseud. for Whitman), 262 n. Judas MacCABAEUSabaeus, 37, 39 Jumping frog of Calaveras County, 379 Junta, The, 183 Just before the battle, mother, 285 Justice and Expediency, 52 Juvenile miscellany, 399 Kaler, James Otis, 405 Kansas Emigrants, the, 51 Kant, 197 Katy books, 402 Kavanagh; A Tale, 38 Kearny, General, 278 Kearny at seven pines, 276, 280 Kearsarge, 285 Keats, 2, 248, 249, 251, 327 Keenan's charge, 283 Keepsake, the, 175 Keepsake of Friendship, the, 175 Kellogg, Elijah, 403 Kemble, Fanny, 314 Kendall, Amos, 184 Ken