Transitions in American literary history
By: edited by Harry Hayden Clark for the American Literature Group of the Modern Language Association
Contributors: Modern Language Association of America. American Literature Group
Publisher: Octagon Books
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 479
Subjects: American literature; History and criticism
Notes: Reprint of the ed. originally issued in series Duke University publications.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, by H. H. Clark.; title: The decline of Puritanism, by C. H. Faust.; title: The late eighteenth century: an age of contradictions, by L. Howard.; title: The decline of neoclassicism, 1801-1848, by M. F. Heiser.; title: The rise of romaniticism, 1805-1855, by G. H. Orians.; title: The rise of transcendentalism, 1815-1860, by A. Kern.; title: The decline of romantic idealism, 1855-1871, by F. Stovall.; title: The rise of realism, 1871-1891, by R. Falk.