Guide to American Literature and Its Backgrounds since 1890

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This boot: is a selective bibliography and outline of American literature
since 1890 in its intellectual, social, and cultural context. The authors
write that they have attempted to "impose intellectual order upon .
confusion. There are histories of fiction which cover this period; there
are a few histories of poetry; there are excellent studies of this or that
element in the history of ideas; but there is no single work that
presents to the reader in understandable order the combination of
intellectual and sociological (political) event and literary productivity,
which is at once the peril and the e.xhilaration of this enterprise." ;
The first half of the guide contains a selected bibliography of books on relevant aspects of political, social, and intellectual history in the United States, together with a bibliography of scholarly and critical books on American literature for the period surveyed. It also includes an annotated list of the leading magazines having... Tovább

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This boot: is a selective bibliography and outline of American literature
since 1890 in its intellectual, social, and cultural context. The authors
write that they have attempted to "impose intellectual order upon .
confusion. There are histories of fiction which cover this period; there
are a few histories of poetry; there are excellent studies of this or that
element in the history of ideas; but there is no single work that
presents to the reader in understandable order the combination of
intellectual and sociological (political) event and literary productivity,
which is at once the peril and the e.xhilaration of this enterprise." ;
The first half of the guide contains a selected bibliography of books on relevant aspects of political, social, and intellectual history in the United States, together with a bibliography of scholarly and critical books on American literature for the period surveyed. It also includes an annotated list of the leading magazines having relevance to American literary production. A chronological summary of the principal events in American and world history from 1890 to 1971 covers developments in science, social history, and popular amusement, as well as politics.
The second half of the book is an orderly guide to important titles in modern American literature, divided into the periods 1890-1919 and 1920-1972. Its fifty-two reading lists are organized according to important tendencies in the various genres of writing. Each list is preceded by a short discussion of the relevant tendency to provide a context for the list.
This compilation is intended to "offer to those who are puzzled by the embarrassment of our literary riches a scheme, a clue, an outline, a pattern that will make some sort of sense, even though it may not be '
at all points the right sense. The derision as to what is of permanent worth in this vast library' will not be made for another hundred years, but in the meanwhile one is entitled to understand it if one can."
In revising their classic reference work, the authors have added new titles, removed obsolescent ones, and noted new editions. A new reading list on drama is included, as are new titles and information from the sixties and early seventies.
Howard Mumford Jones is Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, at Harvard University, and former Editor of the Harvard Library Bulletin. He is the author of many works, including Ideas in America, Education arid World Tragedy, The Theory of American Literature, O Strange New World, and the recent historical study The Age of Energy. He is the editor of American Prose Masters by W. C. Brownell (HUP 1963) and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson (HU P 1966).
Richard M. Ludwig is Professor of English at Princeton LTniversity. He is editor of Aspects of American Poetry and Letters of Ford Madox Ford, and co-editor of Literary History of the United States and Major American Writers.
SBN 674-36754-5 Also available in a cloth edition
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