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405 WALTER CHANNING
from American Language and Literature ( 1815)
405 JAMES KIRKE PAULDING
Salmagundi, Second Series. Saturday, August 19, 1820
A National Literature
408 JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789-1851)
412 Preface to The Leather-stocking Tales
415 The Deerslayer
Chapter VII: The Commencement of a Career in Forest Exploits
426 The Pioneers
Chapter XXXIII: Not Guilty with a Clean Conscience
435 The Prairie
Chapter XXXIV: I Die, As I Have Lived
443 SARAH GRIMKƒ (1792-1873) AND ANGELINA GRIMKƒ
(1805-1879)
444 Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
449 RELATED VOICES
SOJOURNER TRUTH
Woman's Rights Convention
451 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878)
454 Thanatopsis
456 To a Waterfowl
457 The Prairies
461 Literature of the American Renaissance, 1836-1865
Introduction
461 "Who Reads an American Book?"
464 A Revolution in Consciousness
466 "Incomparable Materials"
467 An Improving Spirit
468 "Self-Made or Never Made"
470 Gold Rush
471 Railroad Iron
472 Impending Crisis
476 JOHN PENDLETON KENNEDY (1795-1870)
477 Swallow Barn
II: A Country Gentleman