The Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. 2
Subtitle: Prose Writing, 1820-1865 (The Cambridge History of American Literature)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 27, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 944
ISBN-13: 9780521301060
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Literature - Classics / Criticism; 19th Century American Prose; American Literature (General); American English; English; Literary Criticism; USA; Reference; American - General; American literature--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; American literature; History and criticism
First sentence: IN American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman, his seminal 1941 study of classic American writing, F. O. Matthiessen located the "renaissance" of his title in the 1850s, when Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Melville were all publishing major works.