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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.) 2 2 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)
, writing of the American drama, the native dramatists were concerned with American character, hence Solon Shingle, Colonel Sellers, Judge Bardwell Slote, and Mose the fire-boy. Without them, we should not have had Joshua Whitcomb, Davy Crockett, and Pudd'nhead Wilson. Perhaps one of the most typically American pieces produced in this period of the seventies was Frank Murdock's Davy Crockett (NewYork, Niblo's Garden, 9 March, 1874), reminiscent in its colour of the elder Hackett's Colonel Nimrod Wildfire, and a romantic forerunner of Moody's The great divide. Mrs. Bateman's Self finds continuation in Howard's Saratoga and Mrs. Logan's Surf, while these point the way to Langdon Mitchell's The New York idea, written when dialogue for the theatre had grown in literary form and feeling, when a sense of atmosphere created an ironic response to fashionable manners and customs. It is because of this isolated, accidental character of American drama that Bronson Howard's position was all
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)
66, 133 Cogswell, J. G., 451, 452, 456 Cohan, George M., 289-290, 498 Cohn, Gustav, 443 Coin's financial Fool, 358 Coin's financial school, 357 Colden, Cadwallader, 179 Coleridge, 54, 228, 234, 475 Colgate College, 205 Colleen Bawn, the, 268 College Fetich, A, 459 n. College of Mirania, 394 College widow, the, 289 Collier, J. P., 481, 482 Collier's weekly, 293, 333 Collins, J. A., 437 Colman, John, 426 Colonel Carter of Cartersville, 95, 283 Colonel Nimrod Wildfire, 275 Colonial girl, 280 Colonial records (N. C.), 176 Colonial records of Pennsylvania, the, 175 Colorado River exploring expedition, 158 Colton, Calvin, 435 Colton, Walter, 144 Columbiad, 544 Columbia University, 50, 52, 177, 273, 290, 342, 392, 393, 394, 402, 413, 433, 446, 450, 461 466 n., 473, 475, 479 Columbus, 156, 183, 184, 185, 524, 525 Columbus, 55 Columbus et Filibustero, 268 Colvocoresses, Lieut., 136 Colwell, S., 436 Combe, George, 406