Contents
Introduction Page
The Perspective of American Literature v
Chapter I.
The Race Elements in American Literature 1
Chapter II.
The New Environment of the Saxon Mind 36
Chapter III.
Early Descriptive and Historical Writers 63
Chapter IV.
The Theologians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 118
Chapter V.
Benjamin Franklin 154
Chapter VI.
Political Literature 177
Chapter VII.
Washington Irving 258
Chapter VIII.
Religion and Philosophy in Later Years 281
Chapter IX.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 330
Chapter X.
Essayists 371
Chapter XI.
Historians 446
Chapter XII.
Borderlands of American Literature 520
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