Ideas in America / / Howard Mumford Jones.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: American History eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Jones, Howard Mumford,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1944
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 2nd printing 1945. Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- PART I THE NEED FOR LITERARY HISTORY -- I AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP AND AMERICAN LITERATURE -- 2. DESIDERATA IN COLONIAL LITERARY HISTORY -- 3 AMERICAN LITERATURE AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR CULTURAL ANALYSIS -- PART II STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF IDEAS IN AMERICA -- 4 ORIGINS OF THE COLONIAL IDEA -- 5 AMERICAN PROSE STYLE: 1700-1770 -- 6 THE DRIFT TO LIBERALISM IN THE AMERICAN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- 7 THE INFLUENCE OF EUROPEAN IDEAS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA -- 8 THE RENAISSANCE AND AMERICAN ORIGINS -- PART III THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE -- 9 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR ONCE MORE -- 10 NOBILITY WANTED -- 11 AMERICAN LITERATURE AND THE MELTING POT -- 12 NEW ENGLAND DILEMMA -- 13 TRIBALISM -- NOTES