Research Catalog

Title

The American Adam; innocence, tragedy, and tradition in the nineteenth century.

Author

Lewis, R. W. B. (Richard Warrington Baldwin)

Publication

[Chicago] University of Chicago Press [1955]

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Holdings

Details

Description

ix, 204 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 > Criticism and interpretation
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 > Criticism and interpretation
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 > Criticism and interpretation
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 > Criticism and interpretation
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 > Criticism and interpretation
• 1783-1918
• American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
• Innocence (Psychology) in literature
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) > History > 19th century
• Tragic, The, in literature
• United States > Intellectual life > 1783-1865
• United States > Intellectual life > 1865-1918

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Note

• Issued also in microfilm form as thesis, University of Chicago.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical footnotes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue: the myth and the dialogue -- The danger of innocence -- The case against the past -- The new Adam: Holmes and Whitman -- The fortunate fall: the elder James and Horace Bushnell -- The narrative image -- The fable of the critics -- The hero in space: Brown, Cooper, Bird -- The return into time: Hawthorne -- Melville: the apotheosis of Adam -- The past and the perfect -- The function of history: Bancroft and Parkman -- The real presence: Parker and Brownson -- Epilogue: the contemporary situation -- Adam as hero in the age of containment.

LCCN

^^^55005133^//r903

OCLC

235058

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library