A short history of American literature
Subtitle: based upon The Cambrdige history of American literature
By: edited by William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart P. Sherman, and Carl Van Doren
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's
Published: 1922
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism.
Work titles: Cambridge history of American literature
Notes: Selected chapters from the Cambridge history of American literature.

Bibliographical notes: p. 409-414.
Table of contents: title: I. Colonial writers.; title: II. Knickerbocker writers.; title: III. Poe.; title: IV. Transcendentalists.; title: V. Poets, essayists, romancers.; title: VI. Lincoln.; title: VII. Whitman.; title: VIII. The New nation.; title: IX. The short story.; title: X. Historians and scholars.; title: XI. Preachers and philosophers.; title: XII. The English language in America.