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Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 23 3 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 4 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.) 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 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)
eeing rather than of doing. The characters are more like patients than agents; their business seems to be to register impressions; to receive illumination rather than to make up their minds and set about deeds. But this is a way of conceiving our human business by no means confined to these novels; is it not more or less characteristic of the whole period in which James wrote? One passes by insensible degrees from the world of Renan to that of Pater and Swinburne, and thence to that of Oscar Wilde and of writers yet living, in whom the cult of impressions has been carried to lengths yet more extreme. Among all these names the most significant here seems to be that of Walter Pater, whose style and tone of writing— corresponding to his intellectual quality and bias—more nearly anticipate the style of James than do those of any other writer, English or French. It does not matter that Pater's subject is the art of the past and James's the life of the present. No two writers were e
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)
, Asa, 146 Whitney, Eli, 453 Whitney, Josiah, 467, 470, 475 Whitney, Thomas R., 345 Whitney, William Dwight, 461, 462, 464. 467-70, 475, 477 Whittaker, Frederick, 160 Whittaker, Thomas, 264 n. Whittier, 38, 47, 72, 113, 305, 306, 500, 549 Whoopee-Ti-Yi-Yo, Git along little Dogies, 515 Who wrote the Bible? 217 Why marry? 294 Whymper, Edward, 11 Widowers' houses, 286 Wiener, Leo, 602 Wife, the, 276 Wife of Usher's well, the, 507 Wigglesworth, Michael, 391 Wilde, Oscar, 107 Wilde, Percival, 297 Wilding flower, 63 Wilkes, Capt., Charles, 135, 136, 140 Wilkes, George, 146 Wilkins-Freeman, Mary E., 274, 291, 309 Wilkinson, W. C., 212 Willard, Emma H., 411, 415 William II (of Germany), 11 William and Mary, 338, 386, 392, 402, 417, 447, 478 William James, 249 n. William Reilly, 511 Williams, Jesse Lynch, 294 Williams, Miss, 541 Williams, S. Wells, 145 Williams College, 413, 435, 467 Williamson, Hugh, 179 Willie and Mar