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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 1: travellers and observers, 1763-1846 (search)
rmation for those who would wish to remove to America, and [sic] published in Europe in the year 17814, a literary war between Great Britain and America burst into flame. It had long been smoulderieater progress here than in any other part of America. By 1798 Burnaby might well have revised hisprepossession that democratic institutions in America had corrupted good manners. There was a recrnted from Europe. Fearon (1818) -no lover of America, said Sydney Smith,--Harris (1821), Welby (18ware when he wrote the anonymous John Bull in America, or the New Munchausen (1825), which for its ailing European and British misconceptions of America, and to show the Americans how to be more ref industry close to the soil, and representing America as neither a paradise nor yet a den of thievr misfortune. Napoleon himself once spoke of America as a possible retreat. If Crevecoeur's portrthe prospect of planting Arts and learning in America: There shall be sung another golden age, [6 more...]
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 7: fiction II--contemporaries of Cooper. (search)
all (1793-1868), See also Book II, Chap. XX. who, born in Philadelphia, went west in search of adventure, lived in Illinois and Ohio, edited an annual and a magazine, and served as interpreter between West and East much as Irving did between America and Europe. Hall's manner, indeed, is like Irving's in its leisurely, genial narrative, its abundant descriptions, and its affection for supernatural legends which could be handled smilingly. He had real powers of fidelity, the only merit he che novelists kept themselves almost always scrupulously at home. One set of exceptions was those who dealt with Spain and Mexico, and even with them the motive was largely, as with the contemporary historians, to honour the ancient bond between America and the European nation which had discovered it. In a more distant scene Mrs. Child laid her Philothea (1836), a gentle, ignorant romance of the Athens of Pericles, the fruit of a real desire to escape from the clang of current life. Not much
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
307 Fifty years (Bryant), 271 Firkins, O. W., 361 n. First play in America, the, 216 n. Fletcher, Giles, 155 Flint, Timothy, 211, 318 Flood of yea General magazine and historical chronicles for all the British colonies in America, the, 95, 121 Gentleman's magazine, the, 98, 121 Geography made easy, 187 a, 26 History of Plymouth plantation, the, 20, 21 History of printing in America, 112 n. History of the American Theatre, 228 n. History of the colonial e, 183 Infidel, 222, 319 Information for those who would wish to remove to America, 198 Inklings of adventure, 241 Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood, 26 Jesus, 268, 353 Jeune Indienne, La, 188 Joan D'arc, 226 John Bull in America, etc., 208 John Oldbug, 234 Johnson, Captain, Edward, 22-23 Johnson, 311-312 Kent, James, 288 Kerr, John, 221, 231 Key into the languages of America, 4 Kinsmen, the, 315 Kirkland, Mrs. C. M. S., 318 Knapp, Francis, 159