American Literature Since 1900

Adams aesthetic American literature artist beautiful become Boston Brook Farm called career century character civilization colonies contemporary Cooper critical culture death democracy divine dream edition Emerson England English essays Ethan Brand Europe European evil experience fact feeling fiction force Freneau Gilded Age Hartford Wits Hawthorne Hawthorne's heart Henry James hero Howells human idea ideal imagination Indian intellectual James's land later Leaves of Grass literary live Marble Faun Mark Twain Melville Melville's mind Moby-Dick modern moral narrator Natty Natty Bumppo nature never Norris novel novelist Omoo passion perhaps Philadelphia Poe's poems poet poetry political published Puritan reader realism reality reason Revolution romantic Scarlet Letter seemed sense social society soul spirit Stephen Crane story symbol T. S. Eliot theme things Thoreau thought tion Transcendentalists truth Unitarian universe Virginia Walden Whitman William words writing wrote York