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1. Is literary history obsolete? -- Task of the historian of American literature -- Blueprint for American literary history -- 2. Verdict of Sydney Smith -- First frontier -- New wine in old bottles -- Critical standards in the American romantic movement -- After the romantic movement -- What became of the literary radicals? -- Critical movement in the twentieth century -- Alchemy of literature -- Tragedy and romanticism in modern American literature -- 3. Science and literature -- Value and method in American studies -- A letter to American literary historians -- Province of literary history.
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