Morris, R. B., Editor. Encyclopedia of American History, 1953. Mott, F. L. American Journalism: A History of Newspapers in the United States through 250 Years, 1690 to 1940. 1941. Revised, 1951. A History of American Magazines. Four vols., 1938-1957. (Study carried through 1905.) Nineteenth Century Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature: 1890-1899; with Supplemental Indexing 1900-1922. 1944. (For entries later than 1899 also consult the Readers' Guide ...) Poole's Index to Periodical Literature. Annual, 1802-1881. Supplements, 1882-1907. (Cf. Readers' Guide ...) Quinn, Arthur Hobson, Editor. The Literature of the American People. 1951. (Extensive bibliographies by chapters.) Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. Annual, 1900- . (Especially useful for the location of articles and literature in nonprofessional magazines.) Report of the Committee on Trends in Research in American Literature, 1940-1950. Published by the American Literature Group of the Modern Language Association. 1951. Sabin, Joseph, and others. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from its Discovery to the Present Time. Twenty-nine vols., 1868-1936. Seligman, E. R. A., and Johnson, Allen, Editors. Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Fifteen vols., 1931-1935. Spiller, R. E., and others, Editors. Literary History of the United States. Two-vol. edition, 1953. Stern, Madeleine B. Imprints on History. 1956. (American book publishers.) Trent, W. P., Erskine, John, Sherman, S. P., and Van Doren, Carl, Editors. Cambridge History of American Literature. Four vols., 1917-1921. (Good bibliography to 1918.) Weimar, David R. Bibliography of American Culture, 1493-1875. Ann Arbor, University Microfilms, 1957. Welsch, Erwin K. The Negro in America: A Research Guide. 1965. Who's Who in America. Biennial, 1899 Who Was Who in America. Vol. I, 1897-1942, 1942; Vol. II, 1943-1950, 1950. Woodress, James. Dissertations in American Literature, 1891-1955. Durham, N.C., 1957. Wright, Lyle H. American Fiction, 1774-1850. 1948. -. American Fiction, 1851-1875. 1957. LITERARY HISTORY Ahnebrink, Lars. The Beginnings of Naturalism in American Fiction. 1950. (Each volume contains representative selections of a major author, with a bibliography and critical introduction. Twenty-eight vols. have been published.) Beach, Joseph Warren. American Fiction: 1920-1940. 1941. (Major authors only.) Berthoff, Warner. The Ferment of Realism: American Literature, 1884-1919. 1965. Blair, Walter. Native American Humor (1800-1900). 1937. Bogan, Louise. Achievement in American Poetry, 1900-1950. 1951. Brooks, Van Wyck. The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865. 1936. - New England: Indian Summer, 1865-1915. 1940. Canby, H. S. Classic Americans: A Study of Eminent American Writers from Irving to Whitman. 1931. Chase, Richard. The American Novel and Its Tradition. 1957. Clark, H. H., Editor. Transitions in American Literary History. 1954. Cowie, Alexander. The Rise of the American Novel. 1948. (Principally eighteenthand nineteenth-century novelists.) Cowley, Malcolm. After the Genteel Tradition: American Writers, 1910-1930. Rev. Ed., 1964. Cunliffe, Marcus. The Literature of the United States. 1954. Edel, Leon. The Psychological Novel, 1900-1950. 1955. Frohock, W. M. The Novel of Violence in America. Revised, 1957. Fussell, Edwin. Frontier: American Literature and the American West. 1965. Geismar, Maxwell. American Moderns: From Rebellion to Conformity. 1958. Rebels and Ancestors, 1890-1915. 1953. Writers in Crisis: The American Novel Between Two Wars. 1942. (Major Novelists, 1920-1940.) Gregory, Horace, and Zaturenska, Marya. A History of American Poetry, 1900-1940. 1946. Hoffman, Frederick J. The Twenties: American Writing in the Postwar Decade. 1955. Jones, Howard Mumford. O Strange New World: American Culture, The Formative Years. 1964. Kazin, Alfred. On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature. 1942. Krutch, J. W. The American Drama Since 1918: An Informal History. 1939. Leisy, E. E. The American Historical Novel. 1950. Lively, Robert A. Fiction Fights the Civil War. 1956. Lloyd, D. J., and Warfel, H. R. American English in Its Cultural Setting. 1956. Matthiessen, F. O. American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman. 1941. Mencken, H. L. The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States. 1919. Revised to 1936. Supplement I, 1945; Supplement II, 1948. Miller, Perry. The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century. 1939. Parrington, V. L. Main Currents in American Thought: An Interpretation of Ameri Pritchard, J. P. Criticism in America. 1956. Quinn, Arthur Hobson. American Fiction: An Historical and Critical Survey. 1936. (Comprehensive to date of publication.) -. A History of the American Drama: From the Beginning to the Civil War. 1923. Revised, 1943. . A History of the American Drama: From the Civil War to the Present Day. Two vols., 1927. Reissued in one vol., 1936. Quinn, Arthur Hobson, Murdock, K. B., Godhes, Clarence, and Wicher, G. F. The Literature of the American People. 1951. Rourke, Constance. American Humor: A Study of the National Character. 1931. Smith, Henry Nash. Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth. 1950. Spencer, B. T. The Quest of Nationality: An American Literary Campaign. 1957. Spiller, R. E. The Cycle of American Literature: An Essay in Historical Criticism. 1956. Spiller, R. E., Thorpe, Willard, Johnson, T. H., and Canby, H. S., Editors. Literary History of the United States. Three vols., 1948. One vol., 1953. Stovall, Floyd, Editor. The Development of American Literary Criticism: A Symposium. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1955. Taubmann, Howard. The Making of the American Theatre. 1965. Taylor, W. F. The Economic Novel in America. 1942. Tyler, M. C. A History of American Literature during the Colonial Period, 16071765. Two vols., 1878. Revised, 1897. One vol., 1949. -. The Literary History of the American Revolution, 1763-1783. Two vols., 1897. Reissued, one vol., 1941. Walcutt, Charles C. American Literary Naturalism, a Divided Stream. 1956. Walker, Robert H. The Poet and the Gilded Age: Social Themes in Late Nineteenth Century Verse. 1963. Weales, Gerald. American Drama Since World War Two. 1962. Williams, Stanley T. The Spanish Background of American Literature. 1955. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY Adams, J. T. Provincial Society, 1690-1763. 1927. Allen, F. L. The Big Change: America Transforms Itself, 1900-1950. 1952. -. Only Yesterday. 1931. (Social history of the 1920's.) Beard, C. A., and Beard, M. R. The Rise of American Civilization. Four vols., 19271942. Billington, R. A. Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier. 1949. Bowers, C. G. Jefferson and Hamilton: The Struggle for Democracy in America. 1925. Buck, Paul H. The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900. 1937. Chalmers, David M. The Social and Political Ideas of the Muckrakers. 1964. Chronicles of America Series. Johnson, Allen, General Editor. Fifty vols., 1918-1921. Six supplementary vols. Nevins, Allan, Editor, 1950-1951. (Brief histories of each period, authoritative in general.) Dorfman, Joseph. The Economic Mind in American Civilization. Three vols., 19461949. (Through World War I.) Faulkner, H. U. The Quest for Social Justice, 1898-1914. 1931. = Horton, Rod W., and Edwards, Herbert. Background of American Literary Thought 1952. Howe, Irving. A World More Attractive: A View of Modern Literature and Politics. 1963. Krout, J. A., and Fox, D. R. The Completion of Independence, 1790-1830. 1944. Morison, Samuel Eliot, and Commager, Henry S. The Growth of the American Republic. Two vols., revised, 1950. (Excellent brief general history.) Myrdal, Gunnar. An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. Two vols., 1944. Nevins, Allan. The Emergence of Modern America, 1865-1878. 1927. Nichols, R. F. The Disruption of American Democracy. 1948. (Politics and the Civil War.) Paxson, F. L. The History of the American Frontier, 1763-1893. 1924. Redding, J. Saunders. The Lonesome Road: The Story of the Negro's Part in America. 1957. Schlesinger, A. M. The Rise of the City, 1878-1898. 1933. The Rise of Modern America, 1865-1951. 1951. Schlesinger, A. M., Jr. The Age of Jackson. 1945. Slosson, W. P. The Great Crusade and After, 1914-1928. 1930. Spielman, William C. Introduction to Sources of American History. 1951. Stephenson, W. H., and Coulter, E. M., Editors. A History of the South. Six vols., 1948-1953. To be completed in four more vols. Sullivan, Mark. Our Times. Six vols., 1926-1935. Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America. Two vols., London, 1835. Bradley, Phillips, Editor, two vols., 1942. Van Doren, Carl. The Great Rehearsal: The Story of the Making and Ratifying of the Constitution of the United States. 1948. Wecter, Dixon. The Age of the Great Depression, 1929-1941. 1948. Wish, Harvey. Society and Thought in America. Two vols., 1950-1952. Wright, L. B. The Atlantic Frontier: Colonial American Civilization, 1607-1763. 1948. INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY Baritz, Loren. City on a Hill: A History of Ideas and Myths in America. 1964. Barker, Virgil. American Painting, History and Interpretation. 1950. Cargill, Oscar. Intellectual America: Ideas on the March. 1941. Cash, W. J. The Mind of the South. 1941. Chase, Gilbert. America's Music from the Pilgrims to the Present. 1955. Commager, Henry S. The American Mind: An Interpretation of American Thought and Character Since the 1880's. 1950. Curti, Merle. The Growth of American Thought. 1943. (American philosophy and ideas.) Eliot, Alexander. Three Hundred Years of American Painting. 1957. Gabriel, R. H. The Course of American Democratic Thought: An Intellectual History Since 1815. 1940. Haywood, Charles. A Bibliography of North American Folklore and Folksong. 1951. Hindle, Brooke. The Pursuit of Science in Revolutionary America, 1735-1789. 1956. Hofstadter, Richard. Social Darwinsim in American Thought, 1860-1915. 1944. Howard, J. T., and Bellows, G. K. A Short History of Music in America. 1957. Jackson, G. P. White and Negro Spirituals: Their Life Span and Kinship. 1943. La Follette, Suzanne. Art in America from Colonial Times to the Present Day. 1929. Larkin, O. W. Art and Life in America. 1949. Lasch, Christopher. The New Radicalism in America, 1899-1963: The Intellectual as a Social Type. 1965. Lomax, Alan. The Folk Songs of North America. 1960. Lynn, Kenneth S., Editor. The Comic Tradition in America. 1958. McNeill, John T. The History and Character of Calvinism. 1954. Miller, Perry. Errand into the Wilderness. 1957. Morison, S. E. Intellectual Life in Colonial New England. 1956. Persons, Stow. American Minds: A History of Ideas. 1958. Richardson, E. P. Painting in America: The Story of 450 Years. 1956. Riley, I. W. American Thought from Puritanism to Pragmatism and Beyond. Second ed., 1923. Rosenberg, Bernard, and White, David M. Mass Culture: The Popular Arts in America. 1957. Schneider, H. W. History of American Philosophy. 1946. —. The Puritan Mind. 1930. Stewart, Randall. American Literature and Christian Doctrine. 1958. Sweet, William W. Religion in the Development of American Culture, 1765-1840. 1952. Wood, James P. Magazines in the United States. 1956. SELECTED RECENT CRITICISM Auchincloss, Louis. Pioneers and Caretakers: A Study of Nine American Women Novelists. 1965. Baumbach, Jonathan. Landscape of Nightmare: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel. 1965. French, Warren. The Social Novel at the End of an Era. 1966. Gross, Harvey. Sound and Form in Modern Poetry. 1964. Gummere, Richard M. The American Colonial Mind and the Classical Tradition: Essays in Comparative Culture. 1963. Guthrie, Tyrone. A New Theater. 1964. Hussan, Ihad. Radical Innocence: The Contemporary American Novel. 1961. Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. 1964. Pearce, Roy Harvey. The Continuity of American Poetry. 1961. Pizer, Donald. Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. 1966. Sutton, Walter. Modern American Criticism. 1963. Walker, William E., and Welker, Robert L. Reality and Myth: Essays in American Literature. 1964. Abraham Davenport, 1579 Address at the Dedication of the Gettys- Ah, broken is the golden bowl!-the spirit All dripping in tangles green, 985 A mighty Hand, from an exhaustless Urn, Calm as that second summer which pre- Cask of Amontillado, The, 869 Centennial Hymn, 1583 Chambered Nautilus, The, 1593 Charleston, 1723 Chaucer, 1528 City in the Sea, The, 790 Civil Disobedience, 1461 Coliseum, The, 791 Come now behold, 68 Come out of the Golden Gate, 984 Commodity, 1067 Common Sense, 284 Compensation, 1219 Conclusion [Walden], 1451 Considerations on the True Harmony of Conversations on the True Harmony of Cooper, James Fenimore, 442 Courtin', The, 1663 Crèvecœur, St. Jean de, 190 Custom-House, The, 597 |