In Defense of Historical Literature: Essays on American History, Autobiography, Drama, and Fiction |
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Page 10
... truth about history may be published in massive blocks of jumbled prose by a historian who , though prodigious in research , has done only a portion of the immense labor to which a truly great historian must dedicate himself . It needs ...
... truth about history may be published in massive blocks of jumbled prose by a historian who , though prodigious in research , has done only a portion of the immense labor to which a truly great historian must dedicate himself . It needs ...
Page 100
... truth to the Indians , Hawthorne's wildest reformer tries to convert his friends to his own new order , a millennial society founded on prison reform- on the restored ruins of contemporary society . For this preoccupation with history ...
... truth to the Indians , Hawthorne's wildest reformer tries to convert his friends to his own new order , a millennial society founded on prison reform- on the restored ruins of contemporary society . For this preoccupation with history ...
Page 113
... truth of the human heart , " has the right to present that truth " under circumstances of his own choosing . " The mesmer- ism in The House of the Seven Gables and The Hawthorne's Romances : The Value of Puritan History 113.
... truth of the human heart , " has the right to present that truth " under circumstances of his own choosing . " The mesmer- ism in The House of the Seven Gables and The Hawthorne's Romances : The Value of Puritan History 113.
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