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Main currents in American thought : an interpretation of American literature from the beginnings to 1920

1987

Format:	Book
Author:	Parrington, Vernon Louis, 1871-1929.
Title:	Main currents in American thought : an interpretation of American literature from the beginnings to 1920 / by Vernon Louis Parrington.
Publisher, Date:	Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1987, ©1927.
Description:	3 volumes ; 22 cm
Summary:	Volume I, The Colonial Mind, 1620-1800, treats such influential figures as John Winthrop, Roger Williams, Samuel Sewall, Increase and Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Tom Paine, and Thomas Jefferson. -- amazon.com In Volume II, The Romantic Revolution in America, 1800 - 1860, Parrington treats such influential figures as John Marshall, John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, Daniel Webster, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne -- amazon.com
Subjects:	Philosophy, American. American literature -- History and criticism. United States -- Civilization. United States -- Intellectual life.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Pulitzer Prize, History, 1928.
Contents:	v. 1. The colonial mind, 1620-1800 -- v. 2. The romantic revolution in America, 1800-1860 -- v. 3. The beginnings of critical realism in America, 1860-1920.
LCCN:	87006027
ISBN:	0806120800 9780806120805 0806120770 9780806120775 * 0806120789 * 0806120819 * 0806120797 * 0806120827 9780806120782 0806120789 9780806120799 9780806120829 9780806120812 0806120819
Other Number:	15519846
System Availability:	2
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Control Number:	79999
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Call Number:	810.9 Parringt

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