Transitions in American literary history / edited by Harry Hayden Clark for the American Literature Group of the Modern Language Association.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clark, Harry Hayden, 1901-1971
Corporate Author: Modern Language Association of America. American Literature Group
Language:English
Published: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1953 [i.e. 1954]
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism.
Physical Description:xi, 479 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction, by H.H. Clark
  • The decline of Puritanism, by C.H. Faust
  • The late eighteenth century: an age of contradictions, by L.Howard
  • The decline of neoclassicism, 1801-1848, by M.F. Heiser
  • The rise of romanticism, 1805-1855, by G.H. Orians
  • The rise of transcendentalism, 1815-1860, by A. Kern
  • The decline of romantic idealism, 1855-1871, by F. Stovali
  • The rise of realism, 1871-1891, by R. Falk.