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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 3: the Philadelphia period (search)
ican protest. Undoubtedly his tales furnished a point of transition from Mrs. Radcliffe, of whom he disapproved, to the modern novel of realism, although his immediate influence and, so to speak, his stage properties, can hardly be traced later than the remarkable tale, also by a Philadelphian, called Stanley; or the man of the world, the scene of which was laid in America, though it was first published in 1839 in London. This book was attributed, from its profuse literary material, to Edward Everett, but was soon understood to be the work of a young man of twenty-one, Horace Binney Wallace. It is now forgotten, except one sentence: A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity. In this book the later influence of Bulwer and Disraeli is palpable, but Brown's concealed chambers and aimless conspiracies and sudden mysterious deaths also reappear in full force, not without some lingering power; and then vanish from American literature forever. The style of the period.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 5: the New England period — Preliminary (search)
aturally, then, we find the new spirit of culture in New England uttering itself first through the mouths of men like Edward Everett and Daniel Webster. When, in 1817 or thereabouts, Mr. Everett, Mr. Cogswell, Mr. Ticknor (they were followed somewhaMr. Everett, Mr. Cogswell, Mr. Ticknor (they were followed somewhat later by Mr. Bancroft), went to study in German universities, they went not simply to represent the nation, as they did so well, but to bring back to the nation the standard of intellectual training of those universities. When Edward Everett camEdward Everett came back here, it was to exert a very great and beneficent influence. To the American oratory of that day he contributed the charm of training, of precision, of wide cultivation. He had not in a high degree the power of original thought, or of inspir rid his style of the florid rhetorical quality which belonged to his early speeches. Daniel Webster. The power of Everett and Choate is past, but Daniel Webster is still far more than the shadow of a name. His memory is yet armed with a cert
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Index. (search)
wn's, 70. Edinburgh Review, 69, 99, 164. Edwards, Jonathan, 15, 19, 20-23, 114. Eidolons, Whitman's, 233. E Lia, Lamb's, 261. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 115, 118, 131, 137, 145, 146, 168-177, 192, 196, 215, 229, 232, 234, 235, 261, 264, 265, 283. English novel and its development, Lanier's, 221. English traits, Emerson's, 169. Eulogium on Rum, Smith's, 69. Eureka, Poe's, 208. Eutaw, Battle of, Freneau's, 37. Evangeline, Longfellow's, 142, 143. Evelyn, John, 28. Everett, Edward, 72, 111, 112. Examination relative to the Repeal of the Stamp Act, Franklin's, 55. Fable for critics, Lowell's, 165, 178. Federalists, 46. Festus, Bailey's, 256. Field, Eugene, 264. Fiske, John, 118, 119. FitzGerald, Edward, 165, 166. Fletcher of Saltoun, 263. Flight of the Duchess, Browning's, 215. Flint, Timothy, 239. Franklin, Benjamin, 7, 61, 55, 56-65, 108, 117, 221. Franklin, James, 58. Franks, Rebecca, 53, 80, 81. Fraser's magazine, 95, 261. Fredericks