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American Adam by R. W. B. Lewis (1959, Trade Paperback)

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American Adam : Innocence, Tragedy and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century, Paperback by Lewis, Richard Warrington Baldwin, ISBN 0226476812, ISBN-13 9780226476810, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Analyzes the contributions of such figures as Whitman, Hawthorne, Melville, and Parker toward the creation of a native American mythology.

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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press

ISBN-100226476812

ISBN-139780226476810

eBay Product ID (ePID)96098

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Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameAmerican Adam

SubjectAmerican / General, United States / General

Publication Year1959

TypeTextbook

AuthorR. W. B. Lewis

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, History

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight8.8 Oz

Item Length0.8 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN55-005133

TitleLeadingThe

Table Of ContentPrologue: The Myth and the Dialogue I. The Danger of Innocence 1. The Case against the Past 2. The New Adam: Holmes and Whitman 3. The Fortunate Fall: The Elder James and Horace Bushnell II. The Narrative Image 4. The Fable of the Critics 5. The Hero in Space: Brown, Cooper, Bird 6. The Return into Time: Hawthorne 7. Melville: The Apotheosis of Adam III. The Past and the Perfect 8. The Function of History: Bancroft and Parkman 9. The Real Presence: Parker and Brownson Epilogue: The Contemporary Situation Adam as Hero in the Age of Containment Index

SynopsisIntellectual history is viewed in this book as a series of "great conversations"-dramatic dialogues in which a culture's spokesmen wrestle with the leading questions of their times. In nineteenth-century America the great argument centered about De Cr vecoeur's "new man," the American, an innocent Adam in a bright new world dissociating himself from the historic past. Mr. Lewis reveals this vital preoccupation as a pervasive, transforming ingredient of the American mind, illuminating history and theology as well as art, shaping the consciousness of lesser thinkers as fully as it shaped the giants of the age. He traces the Adamic theme in the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Henry James, and others, and in an Epilogue he exposes their continuing spirit in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, J. D. Salinger, and Saul Bellow., Intellectual history is viewed in this book as a series of "great conversations"--dramatic dialogues in which a culture's spokesmen wrestle with the leading questions of their times. In nineteenth-century America the great argument centered about De Crèvecoeur's "new man," the American, an innocent Adam in a bright new world dissociating himself from the historic past. Mr. Lewis reveals this vital preoccupation as a pervasive, transforming ingredient of the American mind, illuminating history and theology as well as art, shaping the consciousness of lesser thinkers as fully as it shaped the giants of the age. He traces the Adamic theme in the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Henry James, and others, and in an Epilogue he exposes their continuing spirit in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, J. D. Salinger, and Saul Bellow.

LC Classification NumberPS201.L4