This collection of pervasive essays not only sheds light onto eighteenth and nineteenth-century American consciousness but also on Lawrence's own perspectives and individuality. He focuses on authors such as Melville, Whitman, and Edgar Allen Poe, creating an engaging exploration of their talents, and at the same time demonstrating his own.
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Studies in Classic American Literature
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Publisher
SAGA EgmonteBook ISBN
9788726954685
Year
2021Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Foreword
- I. The spirit of place
- II. Benjamin Franklin
- III. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur
- IV. Fenimore Cooper's white novels
- V. Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking novels
- VI. Edgar Allan Poe
- VII. Nathaniel Hawthorne and "The scarlet letter"
- VIII. Hawthorne's "Blithedale romance"
- IX. Dana's "Two years before the mast"
- X. Herman Melville's "Typee" and "Omoo"
- XI. Herman Melville's "Moby Dick"
- XII. Whitman
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