This volume takes as a pragmatic starting-point the writings of the first European explorers in America such as Richard Hakluyt, and the first colonial settlers, such as Anne Bradstreet. By the mid-19th century, the evolution of publishing and communications, and the advent of "Atlantic Monthly" and "Harper's" had coincided with a flowering of talent - Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman - together with a host of minor figures. The essays in this volume explore three fertile centuries of writers and writing that drew on the Old World and the New, in shaping a distinctive native literature. "The Penguin History of Literature" is a critical survey of English and American literature in ten volumes. Each volume is a collection of original essays specially commissioned for the series, which, taken together, cover 14 centuries of literature from the Anglo-Saxons to the present.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointingly dated and prone to simplistic Freudianisms,
By mtwilson@ix.netcom.com (Athens, GA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: American Literature to 1900 (Hist of Literature) (v. 8) (Mass Market Paperback)
Provides a useful overview in some ways, but also tends towards statements of this sort throughout: "Cooper seems to have been, of all American writers of the nineteenth century perhaps, the most singly and singly masculine, the most completely oriented towards his father." Penguin is doing its readers a disservice by not offering a survey volume that includes other viewpoints than this reductionist sort of pop Freudian analysis.
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