American Trajectories: Authors and Readings, 1790–1970
Feb 1994 · Penn State Press
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In American Trajectories Warner Berthoff argues that even in the broadest cultural and historical perspective, imaginative literature (like all the arts) is a matter of individual signatures and differences. He also puts forth that there are recognizable patterns and continuities marking off what is distinctively American, what both reflects and speaks for a shared national experience. Discussions of Emily Dickinson and Mark Twain, Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, Kate Chopin, Theodore Dreiser, and Edmund Wilson focus on the provenance and central character of writing by mainstream figures in our literary past. The essays on Brockden Brown, Nathan Asch, O. Henry, Frank O'Hara, Lewis Mumford, and Van Wyck Brooks highlight marginal, neglected, forgotten, or not yet fully acknowledged contributors to American writing.
In American Trajectories Warner Berthoff argues that even in the broadest cultural and historical perspective, imaginative literature (like all the arts) is a matter of individual signatures and differences. He also puts forth that there are recognizable patterns and continuities marking off what...
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Warner Berthoff is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English and American Literature Emeritus at Harvard University. He is author of several books, including Literature and the Continuances of Virtue (1986) and A Literature Without Qualities: American Writing Since 1945 (1979).
Warner Berthoff is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English and American Literature Emeritus at Harvard University. He is author of several books, including Literature and the Continuances of Virtue (1986) and A Literature Without Qualities: American Writing Since 1945 (1979).
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