The American Idea The American Idea

The American Idea

The Literary Response to American Optimism

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Publisher Description

The American idea," a blend of the Idea of Progress and a belief in the essential goodness of man, has determined the form of much of our significant literature. Carter treats the response to this idea in most of the major and many of the minor writers of the nineteenth century, including Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, William and Henry James, Mark Twain, Howells, and Henry Adams, and sees the persistence of the idea in the novels of Saul Bellow. "

Originally published in 1977.

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GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2018
July 11
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
285
Pages
PUBLISHER
The University of North Carolina Press
SELLER
Ingram DV LLC
SIZE
1.5
MB
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