Download or read book Sidelights on American Literature written by Fred Lewis Pattee and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sidelights on New London and Newer York and Other Essays written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTSA FIRST WORD 5PART I NEW LONDON 8I. ON BRIGHT OLD THINGS 8II. ON CALLING NAMES 14III. ON KEEPING YOUR HAIR ON 20IV. THE COWARDICE OF COCKTAILS 28V. GATES AND GATE-CRASHERS 37VI. THE UNPSYCHOLOGICAL AGE 46VII. THE TRUE VICTORIAN HYPOCRISY 53VIII. MARRIAGE AND THE MODERN MIND 60PART II NEWER YORK 67I. THE AMERICAN IDEAL 67II. A PLEA FOR PROHIBITION 74III. WHICH IS THE GOVERNMENT? 77IV A MONSTER: THE POLITICAL DRY 81V. BERNARD SHAW AND AMERICA 89VI. THE CASE AGAINST MAIN STREET 94VII. THE CASE FOR MAIN STREET 102VIII. THEY ARE ALL PURITANS 113IX. SKYSCRAPERS 121X. AND WHAT ABOUT THE QUAKERS? 125XI. ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN LONDON 130XII. UNKNOWN AMERICA 135XIII. WHAT OF THE REPUBLIC? 140XIV. RETURN TO THE VISION 150PART III OTHER ESSAYS 159I. THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE IN LITERATURE 159II. THE MIDDLEMAN IN POETRY 172III. SHAKESPEARE AND SHAW 181IV. BERNARD SHAW AND BREAKAGES 186V. THE POPULARITY OF DICKENS 191VI. MAGIC AND FANTASY IN FICTION 195
Download or read book The Reinterpretation of American Literature written by Norman Foerster and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Free Will and Determinism in American Literature written by Perry D. Westbrook and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of the freedom or the bondage of the will was brought to this country by the Puritans, and it has been one of the unanswerable questions ever since. Whereas many other books have been written on Puritanism and on naturalism in their philosophic and theological manifestations, this book traces these ideas through our national literature. Chapter 1 begins with a brief account of St. Augustine's views concerning the will, continues with a full discussion of John Calvin's modifications of Augustine's views, and ends with a consideration of Puritan concepts of the will as found in the writings of Michael Wigglesworth and Jonathan Edwards. The second chapter looks at the subject of the predestinated will in the fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Mary Wilkins Freeman and in the poetry of Emily Dickinson. In the succeeding chapter attention is turned to nineteenth-century authors actively hostile to the Calvinistic concept of predestination: Charles Brockden Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Mark Twain. The next two chapters then trace the rise of naturalistic determinism and compare and contrast it with the Calvinistic doctrines of predestination and election. Focus is later directed on the blossoming of 'literary naturalism in America in the works of Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Jack London, and Theodore Dreiser. The combining of naturalism with vestigial Calvinism in the novels of Ellen Glasgow and William Faulkner is the next subject of extended discussion. In the concluding two chapters attention is turned to libertarian philosophies opposed to predestination and naturalistic determinism, including deism, transcendentalism, pragmatism, and humanism. The influence of the great Russian novelists is presented, and William Dean Howells, Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Willa Cather are discussed as humanistic writers. Finally, the continuing tension between humanism and scientific determinism is noted in the writings of Ernest Hemingway. The themes of the book are illustrated with many examples from the prose and verse of American writers.
Download or read book American Literature written by Ernest Erwin Leisy and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A List of Books for High School Libraries of California written by School Library Association of California. Southern Section and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Library of Southern Literature Historical side lights 50 reading courses chart bibliography and index written by Edwin Anderson Alderman and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America written by Vernon Parrington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This final volume of Vernon Louis Parrington's Pultzer Prize-winning study deals with the decay of romantic optimism. It shows that the cause of decay is attributed to three sources: stratifying of economics under the pressure of centralization; the rise of mechanistic science; and the emergence of a spirit of skepticism which, with teachings of the sciences and lessons of intellectuals, has resulted in the questioning of democratic ideals. Parrington presents the movement of liberalism from 1913 to 1917, and the reaction to it following World War I. He notes that liberals announced that democratic hopes had not been fulfilled; the Constitution was not a democratic instrument nor was it intended to be; and while Americans had professed to create a democracy, they had in fact created a plutocracy. Industrialization of America under the leadership of the middle class and the rise of critical attitudes towards the ideals and handiwork of that class are examined in great detail. Parrington's interpretation of the literature during this time focuses on four divisions of development: the conquest of America by the middle class; the challenge of that overlordship by democratic agrarianism; the intellectual revolution brought about by science and the appropriation of science by the middle class; and the rise of detached criticism by younger intellectuals. A new introduction by Bruce Brown highlights Parrington's life and explains the importance of this volume.
Download or read book The Assassination Bureau Ltd written by Jack London and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994-10-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London’s suspense thriller focuses on the fine distinction between state- justified murder and criminal violence in the Assassination Bureau—an organization whose mandate is to rid the state of all its enemies. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Download or read book Literary Leaders of America written by Richard Burton and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published without the bibliography in 1903 in the Chautauqua home reading series. Bibliography: p. 317-318. The earlier period.--Irving.--Cooper.--Poe.--Hawthorne.--Emerson.--Bryant.--Longfellow.--Holmes.--Whittier.--Lowell.--Whitman.--Lanier.--The present day.
Download or read book Revised List of Books and Prices Issued by the Superintendent of Public Instruction 1917 in Accordance with the Provisions of the Law Regulating the Sale of School Text books in Michigan written by Michigan. Dept. of Public Instruction and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Side Lights written by James Runciman and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Side Lights" by James Runciman. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Representative American Short Stories written by Robert William Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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