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Nantucket (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.17
his, and one of the best of American, romances; it is the peculiar mingling of speculation and experience which lends Moby Dick (1851) its special power. The time was propitious for such a book. The golden age of the whalers was drawing to a close, though no decline had yet set in, and the native imagination had been stirred by tales of deeds done on remote oceans by the most heroic Yankees of the age in the arduous calling in which New England, and especially the hard little island of Nantucket, led and taught the world. A small literature of whaling had grown up, chiefly the records of actual voyages or novels like those of Cooper in which whaling was an incident of the nautical life. But the whalers still lacked any such romantic record as the frontier had. Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
Fort Pierre (South Dakota, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.17
ense has been aroused, is swift and final. Too irregular, too bizarre, perhaps, ever to win the widest suffrage, the immense originality of Moby Dick must warrant the claim of its admirers that it belongs with the greatest sea romances in the whole literature of the world. Married in 1847, Melville lived for three years in New York and then for thirteen years in a farmhouse near Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Although he did not cease to write at once, Moby Dick seems to have exhausted him. Pierre (1852) is hopelessly frantic; Israel Potter (1855) is not markedly original; neither are The Piazza tales (1856), and The confidence man (1857). The verses which he wrote in his later years, his sole output, are in a few instances happy, but far more often jagged and harsh. Whatever the causes of his loss of power, he fretted under it and grew more metaphysical, tortured, according to Hawthorne, his good friend, by uncertainty as to a future life. That way, for Melville, was madness; his e
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.17
. William Gilmore Simms. his devotion to South Carolina. the variety of his miscellaneous work. War, the most romantic of American states; South Carolina passed into the pages of Simms; Georgia anative humorists, who seldom wrote novels. South Carolina produced the writer who, among all the Ametrongest passions. He loved every foot of South Carolina, he honoured its traditions and defended i traditional disrespect for native books, South Carolina refused Simms the honour certainly due his to recognize them. Time must have taught South Carolina more cordiality to her best writer had notard innumerable legends of the Revolution, South Carolina's heroic age, and cherished them with a poare, that he produced popular histories of South Carolina and popular biographies of Marion, Captainhe Yemassee his concern for the history of South Carolina bore fruit, a moving tale of the Yemassee imself to describing the rich landscape of South Carolina or to recounting its annals he was more fu
America (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.17
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
Michigan (Michigan, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.17
West of the Alleghanies the growth of fiction during the life of Cooper was, of course, scanty. It consisted less of novels than of tales and sketches, which, produced for the most part by writers of Eastern birth dwelling for a time in the new settlements, were chiefly concerned with the representation of manners not known to the seaboard. The wittiest of these writers was Mrs. Caroline Matilda Stansbury Kirkland (1801-64), a native of New York who took advantage of a three years stay in Michigan to produce A New Home-Who'll Follow (1839), a volume of keen and sprightly letters on the frontier avowedly in the manner of Miss Mitford, and a continuation, Forest life (1842), which is less piquant only because it was not the first. In the later Western Clearings (1846) she was somewhat more regular but not so racy and natural. A more representative Western author was James Hall (1793-1868), See also Book II, Chap. XX. who, born in Philadelphia, went west in search of adventure, li
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.17
, and often diffuse and monotonous, had still enough force and charm to have continued to be read by those to whom all books dealing with the origins of Christianity are an equal duty and delight. Judd has not been so widely read as Ware, though generally considered a novelist of superior truth and subtlety. His first novel, Margaret (1845), was born of a desire to show that Unitarians could produce imaginative literature. Its special merits are its vivid fidelity to the life of rural Massachusetts just after the Revolution, its thorough, loving familiarity with the New England temper and scene, and a kind of spiritual ardour which pervades the whole book; but it is badly constructed and it runs, toward the close, into a region of misty transcendentalisms where characters and plot are lost. Richard Edney (1850), a companion piece with its hero a boy and its setting contemporary, suffers, either as narrative or sense, from the same theological obsession, which appears in Judd's poe
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 2.17
Moby Dick. Ware. Judd. the victory of fiction in the United States It is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the y, at Cooper's death, a new vogue of realism had begun, but America still had little but romance. With so vast and mysterioue to take it, novelists, like farmers, were less prompt in America than in Europe to settle down to cultivate intensively knoween the geographic and the imaginative frontier of the United States than has been pointed out. As the first advanced, thin,h romances do not present a solid record of actual life in America at the time they were written, they offer important evidenas a clerk in Hawaii, he joined the crew of the frigate United States and returned by the Horn to Boston, October, 1844. Fromh Seas during the years 1857-1860 in many cities of the United States and Canada. He visited Europe and Palestine. Finally,late in starting, had firmly established itself in the United States by the middle of the century, and Cooper, followed in G
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.17
epublic, that idealization which has made it, especially since the Civil War, the most romantic of American states; South Carolina passed into the pages of Simms; Georgia and the lower South brought forth a school of native humorists who abounded in the truth as well as in the fun of that border; See Book II, Chap. XIX. the Miss instantly displayed. Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit. A born story-teller, like Cooper, Simms was as heedless as Cooper of structure and less careful as to style, but he was too rapid to be duccessful only, and there not always, in the words and deeds of the gourmand Porgy. Simms is a master in the description of landscapes, from the sterile wastes of Georgia to the luxuriant swamps in which the partisans found a refuge; but he lays little emphasis on the poetry or philosophy of nature. In historical tales, not Coop
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 2.17
, but during the second quarter of the century Cooper had many helpers in his great task. In New England Neal, Miss Sedgwick, Mrs. Child, and D. P. Thompson had already set outposts before Hawthornean (1825) and The down-easters (1833), however, which promise at first to be real pictures of New England life and character, soon run amuck into raving melodrama. For all his very unusual originalopular stories, exhibit almost every convention of the fiction of her day. One novelist of New England before Hawthorne, however, still has a wide, healthy public. Daniel Pierce Thompson (1795-18s done on remote oceans by the most heroic Yankees of the age in the arduous calling in which New England, and especially the hard little island of Nantucket, led and taught the world. A small litere of rural Massachusetts just after the Revolution, its thorough, loving familiarity with the New England temper and scene, and a kind of spiritual ardour which pervades the whole book; but it is bad
Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) (search for this): chapter 2.17
North of the Ohio romance achieved relatively little, but on the southern bank Kentucky, Dark and bloody ground, rivalled its mother Virginia. Bird ventured into Mexico at a time when Irving and Prescott were writing romantic histories of the Spanish discovery and conquest. Melville, the most original and perennial of Cooper's ctales of life in the South-west. That same year appeared Calavar, in writing which Bird had the avowed purpose of calling the attention of his public to romantic Mexico. The next year he repeated his success with The Infidel, another story of Cortez and the Conquest. Reading these novels with their tolerable learning in Mexicans. Whatever may be said of the poets, the 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 disc
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