Early nineteenth-century American diary literature
By: by Steven E. Kagle.
Series: Twayne's United States authors series ;; TUSAS 495
Publisher: Twayne Publishers
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: American diaries -- History and criticism; American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; United States -- History -- 1783-1865 -- Biography
Description: Discusses diarists such as Samuel Cole Davis, Charles Osborn, Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, John Charles Fremont, Margaret Van Horn Dwight Bell, Francis Parkman, Washington Irving, John J. Audubon, James Gallatin, James K. Polk, Philip Hone, John Quincy Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Amos Bronson Alcott.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 156-162.
Includes index.