Heralds of American literature
Subtitle: a group of patriot writers of the revolutionary and national periods
By: by Annie Russell Marble, M. A.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; [etc., etc.]
Published: 1907
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
Subjects: American literature -- Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 -- History and criticism; American literature -- Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 -- Bibliography
Genres: Bibliography.
Notes: "Four of the chapters, in abbreviated form, have been printed in the New England magazine, and one in the critic." - Pref.
Table of contents: title: I. Introductory: Signs of the dawn. The Impulse of Franklin.; title: II. Francis Hopkinson.; title: III. Philip Freneau: America's first poet.; title: IV. John Trumbull: satirist and scholar.; title: V. A group of Hartford wits.; title: VI. Joseph Dennie: "the lay preacher."; title: VII. William Dunlap: the beginning of drama.; title: VIII. Charles Brockden Brown.; title: Bibliography (p. [319]-353); title: Index.