Title: Late nineteenth-century American diary literature /
Authors: Kagle, Steven E.
Publisher: Twayne Publishers,
Year: 1988
Subjects: American diaries History and criticism.; American prose literature History and criticism.
Contents: The development of the American diary -- Diaries of western travel and settlement: Edwin Bryant; Reverend Walter Colton; Daniel B. Woods; Helen McCowan Carpenter -- War diaries I-military: John Beatty; Benjamin T. Smith; John L. Ransom; Gideon Welles -- War diaries II-civilian: Judith W. McGuire; Sarah Ida Fowler Morgan Dawson; Sarah Katherine Stone Holmes; Eliza Frances Andrews; Mary Boykin Chesnut; Charlotte L. Forten -- Other diaries of situation: Mollie Dorsey Sanford; Alice James -- Travel-dominated life diaries: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.; Nathaniel Hawthorne; George Mifflin Dallas; Benjamin Moran -- Generalized life diaries: Charles Francis Adams; Sidney George Fisher; George Templeton Strong -- Transcendentalist journals: Henry David Thoreau; Thomas Wentworth Higginson; John Burroughs -- Conclusion: looking forward.