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Main Currents in American Thought
The Colonial Mind, 1620–1800
When Parrington's Pulitzer Prize-winning history of American ideas was first published, Henry Seidel Canby wrote, "This is a work of the first importance, lucid, comprehensive, accurate as sound...
Main Currents in American Thought
The Romantic Revolution in America, 1800–1860
Main Currents in American Thought will stand as a model for venturesome scholars for years to come. Readers and scholars of the rising generation may not follow Parrington’s particular judgments...
Melville's Shorter Tales
Richard Harter Fogle provides an accurate and rounded discussion of these relatively neglected Melville stories. His approach is broadly literary—expounding Melville’s ideas as they exist in the context of the stories themselves and illuminating their connections with Melville’s total work.
Hawthorne's Imagery
The "Proper Light and Shadow" in the Major Romances
This book, designed as a companion volume, concentrates on Hawthorne’s use of imagery, specifically sun imagery, with its contrasting images of moonlight, artificial light, shadow, and blackness, to unify his narratives and illuminate his characters. In tracing Hawthorne’s imagic pattern through his major fiction works and critical pieces, Professor Fogle amply reinforces his critical judgment that Hawthorne was not only an artist but also a careful, conscious craftsman.
Main Currents in American Thought
The Colonial Mind, 1620–1800
When Parrington's Pulitzer Prize-winning history of American ideas was first published, Henry Seidel Canby wrote, "This is a work of the first importance, lucid, comprehensive, accurate as sound...
Main Currents in American Thought
The Romantic Revolution in America, 1800–1860
Main Currents in American Thought will stand as a model for venturesome scholars for years to come. Readers and scholars of the rising generation may not follow Parrington’s particular judgments...
Melville's Shorter Tales
Richard Harter Fogle provides an accurate and rounded discussion of these relatively neglected Melville stories. His approach is broadly literary—expounding Melville’s ideas as they exist in the context of the stories themselves and illuminating their connections with Melville’s total work.
Hawthorne's Imagery
The "Proper Light and Shadow" in the Major Romances
This book, designed as a companion volume, concentrates on Hawthorne’s use of imagery, specifically sun imagery, with its contrasting images of moonlight, artificial light, shadow, and blackness, to unify his narratives and illuminate his characters. In tracing Hawthorne’s imagic pattern through his major fiction works and critical pieces, Professor Fogle amply reinforces his critical judgment that Hawthorne was not only an artist but also a careful, conscious craftsman.