Product Description: AMERICAN LITERATURE by STANLEY T. WILLIAMSCONTENTS: THE FIRST FRONTIER AND PURITANISM: 1607-1750 DEISM, CONTROVERSY AND THE BEGINNINGS OF BELLES LETTRES: 1750-1800 ROMANTICISM, DEMOCRACY, TRANSCENDENTALISM: 1800-1865 THE FLOWERING OF BELLES LETTRES: 1800-1865 NATIVISM AND THE LITERATURE OF THE LATER NINETEENTH CENTURY: 1865-1900 AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 1900-193...read more

Product Description: 1923. A collection of Williams's essays on some of the voices of the nineteenth century. Contents: Carlyle's Life of John Sterling; Carlyle's Past and Present: A Prophecy; Kingsley's Yeast; Two Victorian Boyhoods; The Poetical Reputation of Matthew Arnold; Matthew Arnold and His Contemporaries; Three Aspects of Matthew Arnold's Poetry; Theory and Practice in the Poetry of Matthew Arnold; Victorian Poetry of Social Unrest; Two Poems by Rossetti; George Brimley: A Mid-Victorian Critic; Newman's Literary Preferences; Clough's Prose; Landor and His Contemporaries; and The Parent of Schoolboy Novels...read more