Maule's curse : seven studies in the history of American obscurantism : Hawthorne, Cooper, Melville, Poe, Emerson, Jones Very, Emily Dickinson, Henry James

Maule's curse : seven studies in the history of American obscurantism : Hawthorne, Cooper, Melville, Poe, Emerson, Jones Very, Emily Dickinson, Henry James /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Winters, Yvor, 1900-1968
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Norfolk, Conn. : New Directions, ©1938.
Subjects:
1800 - 1899
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Maule's curse, or Hawthorne and the problem of allegory
  • Fenimore Cooper, or the ruins of time
  • Herman Melville, and the problems of moral navigation
  • Edgar Allan Poe : a crisis in the history of American obscurantism
  • Jones Very and R.W. Emerson : aspects of New England mysticism
  • Emily Dickinson and the limits of judgment
  • Maule's well, or Henry James and the relation of morals to manners
  • Appendix : a brief selection of the poems of Jones Very.

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