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First printing of this groundbreaking study of American literature of the mid-nineteenth century, credited with helping to establish 'American Studies' as a formal academic discipline and giving name to the intellectual period from around 1830 to the start of the Civil War, as mostly New England authors worked to differentiate American culture from British. Matthiessen, an esteemed Harvard professor, discusses the work of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman; the relations of their ideas to each other, the art & thought of America at the time, and their historical antecedents. Size: Large Quarto
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