Literature in New England: The flowering of New England, 1815-1865. New England: Indian summer, 1865-1915.

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Main Author: Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Garden City, N.Y., Garden City Pub. Co. [1944]
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Table of Contents:
  • THE FLOWERING OF NEW ENGLAND, 1815-1865. The Boston of Gilbert Stuart
  • Harvard College in 1815
  • The coast and the hinterland
  • George Ticknor's wanderjahre
  • The new age in Boston and Cambridge
  • The North American Review : Sparks, Bancroft
  • Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella
  • Longfellow in Cambridge
  • The younger generation of 1840
  • Emerson at Concord
  • Hawthorne in Salem
  • Alcott, Margaret Fuller, Brook Farm
  • Emerson : wood-notes
  • Concord : 1840-1944
  • Thoreau
  • Cambridge : Longfellow, Dana the younger, Lowell
  • The Boston historians : Motley
  • Dr. Holmes
  • Thoreau at Walden
  • West of Boston
  • The anti-slavery writers
  • New England at large
  • Concord in the fifties
  • Cambridge in the fifties
  • The romantic exile
  • The autocrat
  • The Saturday Club : Lowell's essays
  • Conclusion
  • NEW ENGLAND : INDIAN SUMMER, 1865-1915. Dr. Holmes's Boston
  • Cambridge after the Civil War
  • Amesbury and Concord
  • The New England scene
  • The post-war years
  • The Radical Club
  • Aesthetic Boston
  • Francis Parkman
  • The younger generation of 1870
  • Howells in Cambridge
  • Howells and James
  • Henry Adams
  • Henry James
  • Aldrich and his circle
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Indian summer
  • The wanderings of Henry Adams
  • Howells in New York
  • Henry James in England
  • Boston in the nineties
  • The epigoni
  • Country pictures
  • The Adamses
  • The pre-war years
  • Second March.