The American writer and the European tradition.
By: Margaret Denny and William H. Gilman, editors.
Contributors: Gilman, William H. 1911-1976.
Publisher: Published for the University of Rochester by the University of Minnesota Press
Published: 1950
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: American literature -- European influences; American literature -- History and criticism; European literature -- Appreciation -- United States
Table of contents: title: The Renaissance tradition in America, by L. B. Wright.-The Enlightenment and the American dream, by T. Hornberger.-Benjamin Franklin, promoter of useful knowledge by R. E. Spiller.-Cosmopolitanism in American literature before 1880, by S. T. Williams.-Origins of a native American literary tradition, by H. N. Smith.-Americanization of the European heritage, by L. Howard.-American writers as critics of nineteenth-century society, by W. Thorp.-The reception of some nineteenth-century American authors in Europe, by C. Gohdes.-American naturalism; reflections from another era, by A. Kazin.-Contemporary American literature in its relation to ideas, by L. Trilling.-The American poet in relation to science, by N. H. Pearson.-Some European views of contemporary American literature, by H. Levin.