Author: Van Wyck BrooksPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Ordeal of Mark Twain
Author: Van Wyck BrooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
America's Coming-of-age
Author: Van Wyck BrooksPublisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Beloved Community
Author: Casey Nelson BlakePublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807860425
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The "Young American" critics -- Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford -- are well known as central figures in the Greenwich Village "Little Renaissance" of the 1910s and in the postwar debates about American culture and politics. In Beloved Community, Casey Blake considers these intellectuals as a coherant group and assesses the connection between thier cultural criticisms and their attempts to forge a communitarian alternative to liberal and socialist poitics. Blake draws on biography to emphasize the intersection of questions of self, culture, and society in their calls for a culture of "personality" and "self-fulfillment." In contrast to the tendency of previous analyses to separate these critics' cultural and autobiographical writings from their politics, Blake argues that their cultural criticism grew out of a radical vision of self-realization through participation in a democratic culture and polity. He also examines the Young American writers' interpretations of such turn-of-the-century radicals as William Morris, Henry George, John Dewey, and Patrick Geddes and shows that this adversary tradition still offers important insights into contemporary issues in American politics and culture. Beloved Community reestablishes the democratic content of the Young Americans' ideal of "personality" and argues against viewing a monolithic therapeutic culture as the sole successor to a Victorian "culture of character." The politics of selfhood that was so critical to the Young Americans' project has remained a contested terrain throughout the twentieth century.
Helen Keller
Author: Van Wyck Brooks The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865
Author: Van Wyck BrooksPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Van Wyck Brooks
Author: Raymond NelsonPublisher: Dutton Adult
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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The Wine of the Puritans
Author: Van Wyck BrooksPublisher:
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Category : National characteristics, American
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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The Times of Melville and Whitman
Author: Van Wyck BrooksPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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The World of Washington Irving
Author: Van Wyck BrooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
Author: Van Wyck Brooks