num_pages: 257
description: 1967, hardcover, Chatto &amp; Windus, London, U.K., 257 pages. The author discusses several 20th century authors, with "... an emphasis on literature as a struggle for power over his environment and over language itself." Such novelists as Cooper, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and others are critically examined.
language: English
title: A World Elsewhere: The Place of Style in American Literature
titlecomplete: A World Elsewhere: The Place of Style in American Literature
genres: Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 14
publisher: Chatto & Windus