The half-world of American culture : a miscellany /
Essays on American literature and popular culture.
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Carbondale,
Southern Illinois University Press
[1965]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Thoreau and assorted others: The hidden Thoreau
- Columbia's carnal bed
- Foreign ports and exotic places: 1840-1860
- Thoreau the actor
- Whitman at Oxbridge
- The sound of American literature a century ago
- Hawthorne's Fanshawe: the promising of greatness
- Thoreau's young ideas
- Jemima and the pattern
- 2. Literature and culture in the twentieth century: Adversity's favorite son
- Cappy Ricks and The monk in the garden
- Lloyd Douglas: loud voice in the wilderness
- The buxom biographies
- Erskine Caldwell: a note for the negative
- Lloyd Douglas and America's largest parish
- Farewell to Hollins Street
- Auditor's report: Poetry ; 1959: The poems across the way ; 1960: The changing face of American poetry ; 1961: The mixed romantics ; 1962: The new battle of the books
- Auditor's report: Prose ; 1961: Mr. Salinger's Franny and Zooey ; 1962: Miss Porter's Ship of fools
- E.E. Cummings and exploded verse
- The American imagination.