PERIOD II
THE RISE OF ROMANTICISM
CHAPTER PAGE
XVII. INTRODUCTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
XVIII. "WHO READS AN AMERICAN BOOK?" . . . . 268
XIX. ROMANTICISM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
XX. BRYANT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
XXI. COOPER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
XXII. THE DISCOVERY OF THE INDIAN . . . . . . . 346
XXIII. THE CONSUMPTIVE POETS . . . . . . . . . . . 361
XXIV. THE ANNUALS AND GIFT-BOOKS . . . . . . . 380
XXV. THREE DECADES OF THE SHORT STORY . . 396
XXVI. SYDNEY SMITH ANSWERED . . . . . . . . . . 408
XXVII. THE FEUDAL SOUTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
PERIOD III
THE MID-CENTURY RENAISSANCE
XXVIII. THE MID-CENTURY RENAISSANCE . . . . . 441
XXIX. EMERSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
XXX. SEBA SMITH AND THE NEW HUMOR . . . . . . 471
XXXI. THE "MAGAZINISTS" . . . . . . . . .. . . . 489
XXXII. LONGFELLOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
XXXIII. HAWTHORNE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537
XXXIII. WHITTIER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551
XXXV. THE FEMININE FIFTIES . . . . . . . . . . . . 561
XXXV. THE FEMININE FIFTIES . . . . . . . . . . . .565
XXXVI. THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY . . . . . . . . . . 578
XXXVII. THE CENTURY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF TODAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601