Lectures On American Literature

The first edition of this book, published in 2002, aimed to complete the study material for our students of American literature. The third edition strives to emphasize this aspect while expanding and deepening the general overview as well as including other important movements and authors. The exposition of the 20th century underwent major changes: the scholars added new texts while supplementing the older ones to comply with the development of critical and academic approaches. The book is written to the point and in comprehensible language, corresponding with the ambition to present and explain the development of one of the most interesting world literatures to university students.

Discussions of the work of Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, Poe, Cummings, and Hemingway.

Excerpt from Lectures on American Literature: With Remarks on Some Passages of American History The precarious situation of the first settlers. The colony of Massachusetts Bay. Winthrop, as a magistrate and historian, Dudley, Sir Richard Saltonstall, John Wilson, John Elliot, the apostle to the Indians. The Sheppards and their writings. Nathaniel Ward, Peter Bulkley, Nathaniel Rogers, Ezekiel Rogers. The founding of Harvard College. Presidents, Dunster, Chauncey, Hoar, Oaks, Rogers, Increase Mather. Methanafical science. John Sherman. Program of literature m the ancient dominion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.