Literature in America: An Illustrated HistoryCUP Archive, 25. aug 1989 - 587 pages The entire span of American literature, in all its variety, from the early seventeenth-century to the late 1980s, is vividly recorded in this authoritative book. Professor Conn summarises the distinctive achievement of the novelists, poets, playwrights, and prose writers who together make up the fabric of America's literary heritage. Classics such as Thoreau, Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Norman Mailer and Toni Morrison - all are expertly placed in their literary, historical, and cultural context. The scope of the book is enlarged by helpful chronological tables, an annotated guide to further reading, and above all by abundant illustrations. Its almost 200 half tones and colour plates comprise portraits and photographs of writers, original illustrations from novels, scenes from famous productions of plays, reproductions of manuscripts, paintings, cartoons, and rare printed material - an exceptional range of visual images which enrich and extend the book's discussion. |
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... LITERARY ENTERPRISE Realism : Henry James , Samuel Clemens , William Dean Howells , Rebecca Harding Davis Writers of the local scene Naturalism : Stephen Crane , Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Frank Norris FIVE : MODERNISTS AND MUCKRAKERS ...
... LITERARY ENTERPRISE Realism : Henry James , Samuel Clemens , William Dean Howells , Rebecca Harding Davis Writers of the local scene Naturalism : Stephen Crane , Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Frank Norris FIVE : MODERNISTS AND MUCKRAKERS ...
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... literary experiments : Sinclair Lewis , Ernest Hemingway , Marianne Moore , Wallace Stevens , Eugene O'Neill The Harlem Renaissance d F. Scott Fitzgerald The Depression and proletar- ian writing Southern literature : William Faulkner ...
... literary experiments : Sinclair Lewis , Ernest Hemingway , Marianne Moore , Wallace Stevens , Eugene O'Neill The Harlem Renaissance d F. Scott Fitzgerald The Depression and proletar- ian writing Southern literature : William Faulkner ...
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Contents
THE COLONIAL EXPERIENCE I | 1 |
John Smith General Historie of Virginia | 2 |
John Smith A Description of New England | 3 |
The Robber Bridegroom Eudora Welty 492 | 4 |
Harvard College 5 John Winthrop 6 Plymouth Plantation | 6 |
Cotton Mather sermon on the death of Mrs Hannah Sewall | 7 |
Samuel Sewall | 8 |
Manuscript page from Samuel Sewalls Diary | 9 |
New York City dry goods district 1880s | 232 |
Corliss Engine Hall of Machinery Philadelphia Centennial Exposition | 235 |
John Dost American Progress | 236 |
Illustration from Horatio Alger Herbert Carters Legacy or The Inventors Son | 239 |
Thomas Nast The Tammany Tiger Loose | 240 |
Henry and William James | 243 |
Bret Harte The Heathen Chinee | 252 |
Illustration from George Washington Harris Sut Lovingoods Yarns | 253 |
Edward Johnson The Wonderworking | 10 |
Providence of Sions Saviour in New England | 11 |
Increase Mather | 12 |
Cotton Mather | 13 |
Thomas Smith selfportrait | 14 |
Slave auction broadside | 15 |
Title page Bay Psalm Book | 16 |
Rothko Mark 450 | 30 |
Rowson Susanna Haswell 1034 | 39 |
The Joseph Tapping stone 1678 Kings Chapel Boston | 46 |
Anne Bradstreet 19 Anne Bradstreet The Tenth Muse Edward Taylor Meditation I 38 | 54 |
The Mason Children | 65 |
Matthew Pratt The American School | 66 |
Jonathan Edwards | 67 |
New England Primer | 69 |
William Byrd II | 71 |
William Bartram drawing | 75 |
FORGING A NATIONAL LITERATURE | 77 |
Benjamin West Benjamin Franklin with Kite and Key 8 | 78 |
28 | 79 |
Benjamin Bannekers Almanac | 80 |
Poor Richards Almanack | 81 |
Bowless Moral Pictures | 82 |
32 | 85 |
Thomas Paine | 86 |
Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Independence | 87 |
Virginia State Capitol | 88 |
George Washington | 89 |
Phillis Wheatley Poems | 91 |
Gustavus Vassa Olaudah Equiano | 93 |
Diagram eighteenthcentury British slave ship | 94 |
Joel Barlow | 98 |
Frontispiece from Royall Tyler The Contrast | 100 |
John Trumbull The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunkers Hill June 17 1775 | 102 |
MA wwww 43 | 104 |
Eighteenthcentury crewelwork | 106 |
Eastman Johnson Old Kentucky Home | 109 |
46 | 110 |
Christian Schussele Washington Irving and His Friends | 114 |
The Sahara of the Bozart H L Mencken 418 | 115 |
John Quidor The Return of Rip Van Winkle | 117 |
F O C Darley Ichabod Crane | 118 |
James Fenimore Cooper | 119 |
Scene from The Spy | 120 |
Asher Durand Kindred Spirits | 127 |
William Sidney Mount The Painters Triumph | 128 |
54 | 129 |
George Catlin The Buffalos Back Fat | 130 |
55 | 132 |
San Francisco Actors Workshop 476 | 133 |
Edgar Allan Poe | 134 |
Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee | 137 |
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS | 141 |
61 | 149 |
Title page and table of contents The Pioneer | 150 |
James Russell Lowell | 152 |
Headpiece The Liberator | 154 |
Original architects sketch of Glen Ellen | 156 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | 164 |
Henry David Thoreau | 174 |
Title page Walden | 176 |
65 | 181 |
66 | 183 |
67 | 184 |
69 | 187 |
Theodore R Davis A Slave Auction at the South | 188 |
Frederick Douglass | 189 |
71 | 190 |
Illustration from Mason Weems The Life of George Washington | 191 |
Brook Farm in 1844 | 196 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | 200 |
Sophia Hawthorne illustration for The Gentle Boy | 202 |
75 | 203 |
Herman Melville | 204 |
Title page Hawthornes copy of Melvilles MobyDick | 208 |
Frontispiece portrait first edition of Leaves of Grass | 211 |
Walt Whitman | 215 |
Abraham Lincoln | 218 |
Alexander Gardner Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter | 220 |
Emily Dickinson | 224 |
Emily Dickinson A little madness in the spring | 228 |
AN AGE OF LITERARY ENTERPRISE | 231 |
Petroleum V | 255 |
E W Kemble illustration from Huckleberry Finn | 258 |
Farmington Avenue Hartford Connecticut | 259 |
William Dean Howells | 262 |
Illustration from Charles W Caryl New Era | 267 |
Mary E Wilkins Freeman | 270 |
Thomas Hovenden Breaking Home Ties | 274 |
Lafcadio Hearn cartoon for Creole Sketches | 276 |
Jacob Riis Bandits Roost | 280 |
Court of Honor Worlds Columbian Exposition | 281 |
ΙΟΙ Advertisement Buffalo Bills Wild West Show | 284 |
Frederic Remington Mounting a Wild One | 285 |
Frontispiece F Marion Crawford Via Crucis | 286 |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman | 291 |
MODERNISTS AND MUCKRAKERS | 295 |
Augustus SaintGaudens Adams Memorial | 300 |
The Nave at Chartres from Henry Adams MontSaintMichel and Chartres | 301 |
Henry James | 302 |
Alvin Langdon Coburn Portland Place | 305 |
Hester Street | 306 |
Edith Wharton | 307 |
Illustration from The House of Mirth | 310 |
George Bellows The Lone Tenement | 313 |
Theodore Dreiser | 314 |
John Sloan cover of The Masses | 319 |
Jack London | 321 |
Willa Cather | 322 |
Frontispiece Booker T Washington The Story of My Life and Work | 324 |
W E B Du Bois and founders of the Niagara Movement | 326 |
Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas | 331 |
Ezra Pound | 333 |
T S Eliot | 335 |
Robert Frost | 337 |
Frank Lloyd Wright drawing from The Wasmuth Portfolio | 340 |
Edward Steichen photomontage of Carl Sandburg | 342 |
Sherwood Anderson | 344 |
Map from Winesburg Ohio | 346 |
BETWEEN THE WARS | 348 |
Jacket E E Cummings The Enormous Room | 351 |
Frontispiece and title page Ernest Hemingway In Our Time | 353 |
George Jean Nathan and H L Mencken | 359 |
Sinclair Lewis | 362 |
Sauk Centre Minnesota | 363 |
Eugene ONeill | 367 |
Scene from Long Days Journey into Night | 370 |
Hart Crane | 371 |
William Carlos Williams | 374 |
Marianne Moore | 378 |
Marianne Moore sketch of a diamondback turtle | 379 |
Wallace Stevens | 380 |
Writers of the Harlem Renaissance | 385 |
F Scott Zelda and Scottie | 387 |
Grant Wood Overmantel Decoration | 393 |
Linocut from Giacomo Patri White Collar | 396 |
Scene from Lillian Hellman The Childrens Hour | 397 |
Directors of the Group Theatre | 399 |
Scene from Clifford Odets Waiting for Lefty | 400 |
Cover Anzia Yezierska Bread Givers | 401 |
Walker Evans photograph from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men | 407 |
Reginald Marsh drawing for U S A | 410 |
Raphael Soyer The Mission | 412 |
John Steinbeck | 414 |
Dorothy Lange Ditched Stalled and Stranded San Joaquin Valley California | 416 |
Ellen Glasgow | 419 |
The Fugitives | 420 |
Katherine Anne Porter | 425 |
William Faulkner Pierrot Standing from The Marionettes | 427 |
William Faulkner map of Yoknapatawpha County | 430 |
Zora Neale Hurston | 435 |
Richard Wright as Bigger Thomas | 438 |
Nathanael West | 439 |
Trylon and Perisphere New York Worlds Fair | 441 |
MIDCENTURY AND BEYOND | 443 |
Levittown Long Island in the 1950s | 446 |
Wright Morris photograph from The Home Place | 448 |
Martin Luther King Jr Washington D C | 449 |
Charles Olson at Black Mountain | 453 |
Literary chronology | 537 |
Chronology of American events | 543 |
Books for further reading | 557 |
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