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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 6: the short story (search)
ounced that American writers and American themes were to predominate, adding that local reality is a point of utmost importance. In the first volume of the Atlantic, Emerson struck the new note: How far off from life and manners and motives the novel still is. Life lies about us dumb; and in the same volume a reviewer of George Eliot notes the decline of the ideal hero and heroine. The public is learning that men and women are better than heroes and heroines. By 1861 a writer like Rebecca Harding Davis could open her grim short story, Life in the Iron Mills, with a note like this; I want you to hide your disgust, take no heed to your clean clothes, and come right down with me,—here into the thickest of the fog and mud and effluvia. I want you to hear this story. There is a secret down here, in this nightmare fog, that has lain dumb for centuries: I want to make it a real thing for you. The fifties and sixties in America stand for the dawning of definiteness, of localized real
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
hain, the, 137 Damrosch, Dr., Leopold, 337 Dana, Charles A., 166, 192 Dana, Richard Henry, Sr., 164, 168 Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., 225, 399, 401 Danger of Sporting with innocent Credulity, the, 368 Daniel, John M., 61, 184 Dante, 40, 247, 248, 254, 259 Dartmouth College, 93 n., 227 Dartmouth College vs. Woodward, 75 Darwin, 13, 224 Daudet, 385 David Swan, 22 Davidson, James Wood, 302, 303 Davis, Charles Augustus, 151 Davis, Jefferson, 142 Davis, Rebecca Harding, 372 Davis, Richard H., 388, 392, 393 Davy and the Goblin, 408 Day is done, the, 41 Deacon's Week, the, 373 Death in the School Room, 262 n. Death of Lyon, the, 281 Death of Stonewall Jackson, 307 Death of Wind-Foot, The, 262 n. De Bow's review, 313 Decanter of Madeira, 242 Deephaven, 382 Defence of liberal Christianity, 210 Defoe, 12, 68, 148, 374 Deland, Margaret Wade, 390 Delta (New Orleans), 295, 296 Democracy and other addresses, 247 Democ