Author: Vernon Louis Parrington
Year: 1927
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9780806120812
0806120819 |
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One-volume edition of Parrington's unprecedented (and possibly unequaled) three-part history of American literature and thought, comprising:
Volume One: 1620-1800 - The Colonial Mind
Volume Two: 1800-1860 - The Romantic Revolution in America
Volume Three: 1860-1920 - The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America.
"I have undertaken to give some account of the genesis and development in American letters of certain germinal ideas that have come to be reckoned traditionally American--how they came into being here, how they were opposed, and what influence they have exerted in determining the form and scope of our characteristic ideals and institutions.
"In pursuing such a task, I have chosen to follow the broad path of our political, economic, and social development, rather than the narrower belletristic; and the main divisions of the study have been fixed by forces that are anterior to literary schools and movements, creating the body of ideas from which literary culture eventually springs."
-- from the Introduction
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