This text has taken its place as the definitive treatment of the most distinguished age of American literature. Centering the discussion around five literary giants of the mid-nineteenth century-Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman. Matthiessen elucidates their conceptions of the nature and function of literature, and the extent to ...
Description: 153p. + front., slightly worn wraps, minor interior handling wear. The entire issue is devoted to the memory of this Communist Party gay scholar, and includes a bibliography. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1948
Description: 194p., first edition, end papers browned, rear blank endpaper soiled, dj slightly edge worn. Matthiessen's account of his tour of Central Europe in 1947. A Harvard professor, gay and a radical close to the Communist Party, Matthiessen committed suicide in 1950 under the pressure of the red scare. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1948
Description: 194p., first edition, end papers slightly browned, dj chipped with a few closed tears. Matthiessen's account of his tour of Central Europe in 1947. A Harvard professor, gay and a radical close to the Communist Party, Matthiessen committed suicide in 1950 under the pressure of the red scare. read more
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin & Company
Date Published: 1929
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. 160 p. Includes: illustrations, index. 7-M Photogravure frontispiece. Cover is green with title on spine. Book and pages are firm and intact. Normal fraying, curling, foxing, use, wear and aging process. read more
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