Literary History of the United States, Volume 1Robert Ernest Spiller, Willard Thorp, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Henry Seidel Canby |
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... theme Hawthorne moves on to his disquiet in trying to picture the influence of hoar antiquity lingering into the present daylight ; then to the theme of the illusion to which Americans are constantly subject in England , of having been ...
... theme Hawthorne moves on to his disquiet in trying to picture the influence of hoar antiquity lingering into the present daylight ; then to the theme of the illusion to which Americans are constantly subject in England , of having been ...
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... themes : the international theme , the theme of the artist in con- flict with society , and the theme of the pilgrim in search of society . And through his work , the form of the novel in England and America was de- veloped to a new ...
... themes : the international theme , the theme of the artist in con- flict with society , and the theme of the pilgrim in search of society . And through his work , the form of the novel in England and America was de- veloped to a new ...
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... Theme , of which it was only another , and equivalent , version . Where the International Theme showed the American against the Euro- pean , whether as pilgrim or victim , the theme of the artist showed the writer or painter or actress ...
... Theme , of which it was only another , and equivalent , version . Where the International Theme showed the American against the Euro- pean , whether as pilgrim or victim , the theme of the artist showed the writer or painter or actress ...
Contents
The European Background | 3 |
Colonial Literary Culture | 16 |
REPORTS AND CHRONICLES | 24 |
Copyright | |
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