| An American Procession Contributor(s): Kazin, Alfred (Author) |
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ISBN: 0674031431 ISBN-13: 9780674031432 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $31.68 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1996 Annotation: In this illuminating study of the "crucial century" (1830-1930), Alfred Kazin views the major figures in American writing, beginning when Ralph Waldo Emerson left the church and inspired a national literature on the basis of a religious revolution, and ending with the triumph of modernism - Eliot, Pound, Hemingway, Fitzgerald - and with the revelation after World War I of the "postponed power" of those who had been modern before their time: Henry Adams, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Reference - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading |
| Dewey: 810.9 |
| LCCN: 97220259 |
| Physical Information: 0.95" H x 6.12" W x 9.24" (1.20 lbs) 420 pages |
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| Publisher Description: In this illuminating study of the "crucial century" (1830-1930), Alfred Kazin views the major figures in American writing, beginning in the 1830s when Ralph Waldo Emerson founded a national literature on the basis of a religious revolution, and ending on the eve of the 1930s with modernism--Eliot, Pound, Hemingway, Fitzgerald--and with the revelation of the "postponed power" of those who had been modern before their time--Henry Adams, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kazin, Alfred: - Alfred Kazin (1915-1998) was Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus, at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and author and editor of many books, including A Writer's America: Landscape in American Literature. |