An American procession / Alfred Kazin.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Vintage Books, 1985, c1984.Edition: 1st Vintage Books edDescription: xvii, 408 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 0394729234 (pbk.) :
- 9780394729237 (pbk.)
- PS88 .K3 1985
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Includes index.
pt. 1. The self as power : America when young, 1830-1865. The priest departs, the divine literatus comes : Emerson ; Things are in the saddle and ride mankind : Emerson ; A 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 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.