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100 1 _aMatthews, Brander,
_d1852-1929
245 1 4 _aThe Oxford Book of American Essays
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2012
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2012-07-10
505 0 _aIntroduction -- The ephemera: an emblem of human life / Benjamin Franklin -- The whistle / Benjamin Franklin -- Dialogue between Franklin and the gout / Benjamin Franklin -- Consolation for the old bachelor / Francis Hopkinson -- John Bull / Washington Irving -- The mutability of literature / Washington Irving -- Kean's acting / Richard Henry Dana -- Gifts / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Uses of great men / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Buds and bird-voices / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The philosophy of composition / Edgar Allan Poe -- Bread and the newspaper / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Walking / Henry David Thoreau -- On a certain condescension in foreigners / James Russell Lowell -- Preface to "Leaves of Grass" / Walt Whitman -- Americanism in literature / Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- Thackeray in America / George William Curtis -- Our march to Washington / Theodore Winthrop -- Calvin / Charles Dudley Warner -- Five American contributions to civilization / Charles William Eliot -- I talk of dreams / William Dean Howells -- An idyl of the honey-bee / John Burroughs -- Cut-off Copples's / Clarence King -- The Théâtre Français / Henry James -- Theocritus on Cape Cod / Hamilton Wright Mabie -- Colonialism in the United States / Henry Cabot Lodge -- New York after Paris / William Crary Brownell -- The tyranny of things / Edward Sandford Martin -- Free trade vs. protection in literature / Samuel McChord Crothers -- Dante and the Bowery / Theodore Roosevelt -- The revolt of the unfit / Nicholas Murray Butler -- On translating the odes of Horace / William Peterfield Trent.
508 _aProduced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _a"The Oxford Book of American Essays" by Brander Matthews is a collection of essays written in the early 20th century. The anthology brings together works from prominent American writers, showcasing the evolution and distinct flavor of American literature within the broader context of English literature. The collection addresses various themes, reflecting on the American experience and its unique contributions to the genre of the essay. At the start of this anthology, the introduction by Brander Matthews discusses the relationship between American and English literature, emphasizing that while American literature is part of the English literary tradition, it is characterized by its own distinct qualities influenced by the unique American social and cultural landscape. In this context, the selection of essays aims to highlight typical examples of American contributions through the lens of various esteemed authors, such as Benjamin Franklin and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The opening portion sets the stage for a deeper exploration of individual essays and the insights they provide into American thought and life, all while critiquing the notion that American literature needs to be separate from its British counterpart. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aAmerican essays
700 1 _aBrownell, W. C.
_q(William Crary),
_d1851-1928
700 1 _aBurroughs, John,
_d1837-1921
700 1 _aButler, Nicholas Murray,
_d1862-1947
700 1 _aCrothers, Samuel McChord,
_d1857-1927
700 1 _aCurtis, George William,
_d1824-1892
700 1 _aDana, Richard Henry,
_d1815-1882
700 1 _aEliot, Charles William,
_d1834-1926
700 1 _aEmerson, Ralph Waldo,
_d1803-1882
700 1 _aFranklin, Benjamin,
_d1706-1790
700 1 _aHawthorne, Nathaniel,
_d1804-1864
700 1 _aHigginson, Thomas Wentworth,
_d1823-1911
700 1 _aHolmes, Oliver Wendell,
_d1809-1894
700 1 _aHowells, William Dean,
_d1837-1920
700 1 _aIrving, Washington,
_d1783-1859
700 1 _aJames, Henry,
_d1843-1916
700 1 _aKing, Clarence,
_d1842-1901
700 1 _aLodge, Henry Cabot,
_d1850-1924
700 1 _aLowell, James Russell,
_d1819-1891
700 1 _aMabie, Hamilton Wright,
_d1846-1916
700 1 _aMartin, Edward Sandford,
_d1856-1939
700 1 _aPoe, Edgar Allan,
_d1809-1849
700 1 _aRoosevelt, Theodore,
_d1858-1919
700 1 _aThoreau, Henry David,
_d1817-1862
700 1 _aTrent, William P.
_q(William Peterfield),
_d1862-1939
700 1 _aWarner, Charles Dudley,
_d1829-1900
700 1 _aWhitman, Walt,
_d1819-1892
700 1 _aWinthrop, Theodore,
_d1828-1861
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40196
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