why our American classics matter now Delbanco, Andrew Additional Author mixed material bibliography Maryland Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1997 monographic 1st ed. en English

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xi, 225 p. ; 24 cm. Shows why our classic American writers remain indispensable, even in an age of uncertainty over what our common heritage is. In superb chapters on Melville, Henry David Thoreau, Wharton, Richard Wright, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lincoln, & others, Delbanco shows how each writer enlarged the expressive range of the American language & our imagined sense of Amer. possibilities. American artists celebrated the ideal of the free individual while conveying with searing honesty the struggle to defend this ideal against hostile conditions & ideas. Each writer tried to create what might be called a democratic prose style expressing the belief in transcendence that remains at the core of the American imagination. Democracy in literature Liberalism in literature National characteristics, American, in literature Canon (Literature) American literature United States 810.93580374230072 Transformatio Library Bandung Theological Seminary 810.9358 Del r 02201600113 Non Fiction 810.9358 Del r 31zKAppO4fL._SX318_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg 82601 1997-03-03 00:00:00 2020-09-29 11:00:41 machine generated