Screen LibraryStudies in classic American literature /
Lawrence asserted that 'the proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it'. In these highly individual, penetrating essays he has exposed 'the American whole soul' within some of that continent's major works of literature. In seeking to estab...
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Penguin Books, in association with William Heinemann,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: |
1977. ©1961 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Penguin twentieth-century classics
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Lawrence asserted that 'the proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it'. In these highly individual, penetrating essays he has exposed 'the American whole soul' within some of that continent's major works of literature. In seeking to establish the status of writings by such authors as Poe, Melville, Fenimore Cooper and Whitman, Lawrence himself has created a classic work. Studies in Classic American Literature is valuable not only for the light it sheds on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American consciousness, telling 'the truth of the day', but also a |
| Carrier Form: | 187 pages ; 20 cm. |
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9780140183771 (paperback) : 0140183779 (paperback) 9780140033007 0140033009 |
| Index Number: | PS88 |
| CLC: | I712.06 |
| Call Number: | I712.06/L419-2 |
| Contents: | The spirit of place -- Benjamin Franklin -- Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur -- Fenimore Cooper's white novels -- Fenimore Cooper's leatherstocking novels -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Nathaniel Hawthorne and The scarlet letter -- Hawthorne's Blithedale romance -- Dana's Two years before the mast -- Herman Melville's Typee and Omoo -- Herman Melville's Moby Dick -- Whitman. |