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The American renaissance in New England.
- Title
- The American renaissance in New England. Third series / edited by Wesley T. Mott.
- Publication
- Detroit : Gale Group, ©2001.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Mott, Wesley T.
- Description
- xxiii, 533 pages : illustrations; 29 cm.
- Summary
- Contains biographical sketches of authors who wrote or began publishing their major works during the American Renaissance in New England (between 1830 and 1860). Wide scope of authors includes: novelists, poets, essayists, editors, humorists, translators, compilers, journalists, reformers, abolitionists, scientists, lexicographers; special attention is given to the Transcendental authors - headed by Emerson and Thoreau.
- Series Statement
- Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 235
- Uniform Title
- Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 235.
- Subject
- 1783-1899
- American literature > New England > Dictionaries
- American literature > 19th century > Dictionaries
- American literature > New England > Bio-bibliography > Dictionaries
- American literature > 19th century > Bio-bibliography > Dictionaries
- Authors, American > 19th century > Biography > Dictionaries
- Authors, American > Homes and haunts > New England > Dictionaries
- American literature
- American literature > Bio-bibliography
- Authors, American
- Authors, American > Homes and haunts
- Intellectual life
- Schrijvers
- Amerikaans
- United States > Intellectual life > 1783-1865 > Dictionaries
- New England > Biography > Dictionaries
- New England
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bio-bibliography.
- Dictionaries.
- Reference works.
- Ouvrages de référence.
- Note
- "A Bruccoli Clark Layman book."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Louis Agassiz -- Washington Allston -- John Bartlett -- Cyrus Augustus Bartol -- Francis Bowen -- Edward Tyrrel Channing -- William Ellery Channing -- Francis James Child -- James Freeman Clarke -- Caroline Healey Dall -- Richard Henry Dana Jr. -- Dorothea Lynde Dix -- John Sullivan Dwight -- Edward Everett -- Cornelius Conway Felton -- James T. Fields -- Charles Follen -- Eliza Lee (Cabot) Follen -- Convers Francis -- William Henry Furness -- William Lloyd Garrison -- Asa Gray -- Horatio Greenough -- Edward Everett Hale -- Richard Hildreth -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Julia Ward Howe -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- James Russell Lowell -- Horace Mann -- John Lothrop Motley -- Andrews Norton -- Charles Eliot Norton -- John Gorham Palfrey -- Theodore Parker -- Francis Parkman -- Wendell Phillips -- William Hickling Prescott -- Sampson Reed -- George Ripley -- Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber -- Jared Sparks -- William Wetmore Story -- Charles Sumner -- George Ticknor -- Henry Ware Jr. -- William Ware -- Joseph Emerson Worcester -- Philosophic Thought in Boston.
- ISBN
- 0787646520
- 9780787646523
- LCCN
- 00046628
- OCLC
- ocm45008535
- 45008535
- SCSB-1142138
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library