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Author:

Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998.

Title:

An American procession / Alfred Kazin.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Distributed by Random House,

Copyright Date:

1984

Description:

xvii, 408 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.
Littérature américaine--Histoire et critique.

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

Retrospect, 1932: The twenties and the great American thing. pt. 1. The self as power: America when young, 1830-1865: The priest departs, the divine literature comes: Emerson -- Things are in the saddle and ride mankind: Emerson -- The lover and his guilty land: Thoreau -- The ghost sense: Hawthorne and Poe -- A more perfect union: Whitman to Lincoln -- pt. 2. Modern times, 1865-1900: "Melville is dwelling somewhere in New York" -- Wrecked, solitary, here: Dickinson's's Room of her own -- Creatures of circumstance: Mark Twain -- The James country -- Chicago and "the East": Dreiser, Adams, Mark Twain -- The youth: Stephen Crane -- pt. 3. Ruling by style: history and the moderns, 1900-1929: A postponed power: Henry Adams -- Going to Europe: Eliot and Pound -- An American tragedy and The sound and the fury -- Hemingway the painter -- Retrospect, 1932: The twenties and the great American thing.

ISBN:

9789681627171
9681627172
9780394503783
0394503783

LCCN:

83026843

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PYAX423 -- ECC - Osgood Library (Iowa Falls)

WAPD715 -- Sheldon Public Library (Sheldon)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)