Nineteenth-century American writers on writing
"Features essays, letters, poems, prose, and excerpts of interviews by fifty-seven leading writers who had to figure out what self-reliance meant for them individually within the larger context of a relatively new country where the literature was becoming defined as American"--Provided by...
| Other Authors: | Wineapple, Brenda. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Antonio, Tex. :
Trinity University Press,
[2010]
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| Physical Description: |
xxiii, 321 pages ; 24 cm. |
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Writer's world (San Antonio, Tex.)
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| Summary: |
"Features essays, letters, poems, prose, and excerpts of interviews by fifty-seven leading writers who had to figure out what self-reliance meant for them individually within the larger context of a relatively new country where the literature was becoming defined as American"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Item Description: |
"Features essays, letters, poems, prose, and excerpts of interviews by fifty-seven leading writers who had to figure out what self-reliance meant for them individually within the larger context of a relatively new country where the literature was becoming defined as American"--Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references and index. James Fenimore Cooper -- from Notions of the Americans -- from Home as Found -- John Neal -- from Rachel Dyer: A North American Story -- William Cullen Bryant -- from Green River" -- Lydia Maria Child -- from Letters of Lydia Maria Child -- from Letters from New York -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- from journal and Miscellaneous Notebooks -- from "Tantalus" -- from "Circles" -- from "The Poet" -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- from "The Devil in Manuscript" -- from "The Elixir of Life" -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- from Kavanagh -- John Greenleaf Whittier -- from The Tent on the Beach -- Abraham Lincoln -- from "Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions" -- from Collected Works -- Edgar Allan Poe -- from "Marginalia" -- from "Thomas More" -- from "The Literati of New York" -- from "The Philosophy of Composition" -- from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe -- Margaret Fuller -- from "American Literature" -- from Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli -- Fanny Fern -- from 'A Practical Bluestocking" -- from "Literary People" -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- from The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Harriet Jacobs -- from Autograph Letter (1857) -- Preface to Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl -- Autograph Letter (1860) -- William Wells Brown -- from Clotel; or, The President's Daughter -- Henry David Thoreau -- from Early Spring in Massachusetts -- from Summer -- from Autumn -- from The Writings of Henry David Thoreau -- from Winter -- from Autumn -- from The Writings of Henry David Thoreau -- from Winter -- from The Writings of Henry David Thoreau -- from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers -- from Walden -- from "A Pleafor Captain John Brown" -- from Walking -- Frederick Douglass -- from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass -- Julia Ward Howe -- from "Mother Mind" -- from The Story of the Battle Hymn of the Republic -- James Russell Lowell -- "Emerson" -- Herman Melville -- from The Correspondence of Herman Melville -- from. Pierre; or, The Ambiguities -- Walt Whitman -- from Preface to Leaves of Grass -- from Specimen Days -- from With Walt Whitman in Camden -- Ulysses S. Grant -- from Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant -- Mary Boykin Chesnut -- from Mary Chesnut's Civil War -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- from "Water-Lilies" -- from "My Out-Door Study" -- from 'Letter to a Young Contributor" -- from "The Procession of the Flowers" -- from 'Literature as an Art" -- Francis Parkman -- from The Conspiracy of Pontiac -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- "Learning to Read" -- John De Forest -- from "The Great American Novel" -- Henry Timrod -- from "Literature of the South" -- from "Dreams" -- from "A Theory of Poetry" -- Emily Dickinson -- from Letters of Emily Dickinson -- from The Poems of Emily Dickinson -- from Letters of Emily Dickinson -- from The Poems of Emily Dickinson -- Helen Hunt Jackson -- from Letters of Emily Dickinson -- from Contemporaries, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- Louisa May Alcott -- from Little Women -- Celia Thaxter -- from The Letters of Celia Thaxter -- Mark Twain -- from Mark Twain's Letters -- from Mark Twain Howells Letters -- from Mark Twain:The Complete Interviews -- from Mark Twain Howells Letters -- from "Is Shakespeare Dead?" -- from "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" -- Francis (Bret) Harte -- from "A Morning with Bret Harte" -- from "The Rise of the Short Story" -- John Burroughs -- from "The Vital Touch in Literature" -- William Dean Howells -- from "Criticism and Fiction" -- from "Novel-Writing and Novel-Reading" -- from The Rise of Silas Lapham -- from "The Editor's Relation with the Young Contributor" -- from Selected Letters -- from An Interview with Stephen Crane -- from Selected Letters -- Henry Adams -- from Selected Letters -- from The Autobiography of Henry Adams -- from "Chats with Henry Adams" -- Constance Fenimore Woolson -- from Constance Fenimore Woolson -- from "Reflections Upon Art, Music, and Literature" -- Ambrose Bierce -- from The Devil's Dictionary -- from The Letters of Ambrose Bierce -- William James -- from The Selected Letters of William James -- from William and Henry James, Selected Letters -- from The Selected Letters of William James -- Sidney Lanier -- from The Centennial Edition of the Works of Sidney Lanier -- from "Marsh Song At Sunset" -- Henry James -- from Henry James: The Young Master -- from William and Henry j4mes, Selected Letters -- from "Ivan Turgazieff " -- from The Spoils of Poynton -- from "The Art of Fiction" -- from "The Middle rears" -- George Washington Cable -- from "The Speculations of a Story-Teller" -- from "After-thoughts of a Story-Teller" -- Alice James -- from The Diary of Alice James -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- from Sarah Ome Jewett Letters -- from The Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett -- Emma Lazarus -- "Long Island Sound" -- from Introduction to The Poems of Emma Lazarus -- Kate Chopin -- from "On Certain Brisk, Bright Days" -- from "As You Like It' -- from "In the Confidence of a Story-Writer" -- Lafcadio Hearn -- from The Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn -- Harold Frederic -- from "An American journalist in London" -- from The New York Times -- Charles Chesnutt -- from The Journals of Charles W. Chesnutt -- from "To Be an Author": The Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt -- Hamlin Garland -- from Crumbling Idols -- John Jay Chapman -- from John Jay Chapman and His Letters -- from Learning and Other Essays -- from Memories and Milestones -- from Emerson and Other Essays -- Edith Wharton -- from The Letters of Edith Wharton -- from A Backward Glance -- from The Writing of Fiction -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- "Walt Whitman" -- Frank Norris -- from "The Novel with a 'Purpose" -- from 'A Plea for Romantic Fiction" -- Stephen Crane -- from "Stephen Crane" (an interview) -- from 'A Remarkable First Success" -- from The Black Riders and Other Lines -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- from The Paul Dunbar Reader -- "We Wear the Mask." |
| Physical Description: |
xxiii, 321 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781595340689 1595340688 9781595340696 1595340696 |