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The roots of American culture and other essays
- Title
- The roots of American culture and other essays / by Constance Rourke ; edited, with a preface, by Van Wyck Brooks.
- Author
- Rourke, Constance, 1885-1941.
- Publication
- New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company [1942]
- ©1942
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Additional Authors
- Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963
- Description
- xii, 305 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Collection of essays and notes on the history of American culture.
- "There was no phase of American culture that she had not planned to include in this monumental survey, and it is more than regrettable that she was unable to finish the very ambitious task she had set for herself. I have been able to salvage only a few fragments from the great mass of her half-written manuscripts and notes, but these are enough to show, I think, how important the work would have been for artists and writers and students of American culture. As they stand, these fragments, side by side with her other books, reveal the rich stores of tradition that lie behind us, the many streams of native character and feeling from which the Americans of the future will be able to draw."--Preface, pages xi-xii
- Series Statement
- A harvest book, HB 113
- Uniform Title
- Harvest book ; HB113.
- Subject
- Combe, Voltaire, 1837-1916
- Shakers
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
- African Americans
- Art, American
- Civilization
- Theater
- Geschichte
- Grundlage
- Kultur
- Miscelanea Norte Americana (Literatura)
- United States > Civilization > 20th century
- United States > Intellectual life > 20th century
- United States > Civilization
- United States
- USA
- United States > Civilization
- USA
- Note
- "First edition."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The roots of American culture -- The rise of theatricals: The Indian background ; Susannah Rowson ; After the Revolution ; New England ; The West ; The elder Booth -- Early American music -- The Shakers -- A note on folklore -- Voltaire Combe -- Traditions for a Negro literature -- American art: a possible future.
- LCCN
- 42019827
- OCLC
- ocm00345616
- 345616
- SCSB-164125
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library