The mirror of American life
Subtitle: essays and reviews on American literature
By: by Robert E. Spiller. Edited by Yukio Irie.
Contributors: Irie, Yukio, 1908- ed.
Publisher: Eichosha
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Tokyo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Introduction and notes in Japanese.
Table of contents: title: The writer in America: Ben Franklin's story of his own life. Early American writers and Edgar Allan Poe. James Fenimore Cooper: pioneer. Cooper and American democracy. Ralph Waldo Emerson: poet, lecturer, essayist. Literary revaluations: Longfellow, Lowell, Hawthorne. Herman Melville: America's first tragic poet. Realism and William Dean Howells. Walt Whitman: American. Henry James: the artist and the man. Henry Adams: man of letters. Theodore Dreiser and the Quakers. Thomas Wolfe: the unfinished artist. Literature and criticism.; title: The American dream and literary history: The story of utopias, by L. Mumford. Main currents in American thought, by V. L. Parrington. The flowering of New England, by V. W. Brooks. American renaissance, by F. O. Matthiessen. The theory of American literature, by H. M. Jones.; title: Epilogue: American fiction and international (mis)understanding.