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Studies in Classic American Literature is a work of literary criticism by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. It was first published by Thomas Seltzer in the United States in August 1923. The British edition was published in June 1924 by Martin Secker.
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- Foreword
- I. The Spirit of Place
- II. Benjamin Franklin
- III. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur
- IV. Fenimore Cooper's White Novels
- V. Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Novels
Listen to the States asserting: "The hour has struck! Americans shall beAmerican. The U.S.A. is now grown up artistically. It is time we ceasedto hang on to the skirts of Europe, or to behave like schoolboys letloose from European schoolmasters—" All right, Americans, let's see you set about it. Go on then, let theprecious cat out of the bag. If yo...
We like to think of the old-fashioned American classics as children'sbooks. Just childishness, on our part. The old American art-speech contains an alien quality, which belongs tothe American continent and to nowhere else. But, of course, so long aswe insist on reading the books as children's tales, we miss all that. One wonders what the proper hig...
The Perfectibility of Man! Ah heaven, what a dreary theme! Theperfectibility of the Ford car! The perfectibility of which man? I ammany men. Which of them are you going to perfect? I am not a mechanicalcontrivance. Education! Which of the various me's do you propose to educate, andwhich do you propose to suppress? Anyhow I defy you. I defy you, oh ...
Crèvecœur was born in France, at Caen, in the year 1735. As a boy hewas sent over to England and received part of his education there. Hewent to Canada as a young man, served for a time with Montcalm in thewar against the English, and later passed over into the United States,to become an exuberant American. He married a New England girl, andsettled...
Benjamin franklin had a specious little equation in providentialmathematics: Rum + Savage = 0 Awfully nice! You might add up the universe to nought, if you kepton. Rum plus Savage may equal a dead savage. But is a dead savage nought?Can you make a land virgin by killing off its aborigines? The Aztec is gone, and the Incas. The Red Indian, the Esqui...
In his Leatherstocking books, Fenimore is off on another track. He is nolonger concerned with social white Americans that buzz with pins throughthem, buzz loudly against every mortal thing except the pin itself. Thepin of the Great Ideal. One gets irritated with Cooper because he never for once snarls at theGreat Ideal Pin which transfixes him. No,...
21 de abr. de 2022 · Studies in Classic American Literature is valuable not only for the light it sheds on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American consciousness, telling 'the truth of the day', but also as a prime example of Lawrence's learning, passion and integrity of judgement.
Studies in Classic American Literature, collection of literary criticism by English writer D.H. Lawrence, published in 1923. In this series of essays about great American authors, Lawrence characterized American culture as unsteady and set adrift from the stable moorings of European culture.
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This, the Cambridge Edition of the text of Studies in Classic American Literature is established from the original sources and first published in , C the Estate of Frieda Lawrence Ravagli .
24 de nov. de 2022 · Studies in Classic American Literature, first published in 1923, provides a cross-section of D. H. Lawrence's writing on American literature, including landmark essays on Benjamin Franklin, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville and Walt Whitman.
