American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
by Matthiessen, F. O
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
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About This Item
New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press, 1954. 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [xxiv], 678pp w appendix and index. Eight unpaginated, indexed plates. Presentation bookplate on ffep. Summary tipped in on front pastedown. Blue cloth w gold lettering on cover and spine. Binding square and sound. First published in 1941, this is the fifth impression (1954), stated, and volume 207 of a collection of 350 books about the United States of America presented by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1957.
F.O. Matthiessen, in a book that requires to be read with the greatest care, follows out all the subtle lines of relationship that spin a sort of spider's web among the minds of American literary figures, Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, Hawthorne and Melville
F.O. Matthiessen, in a book that requires to be read with the greatest care, follows out all the subtle lines of relationship that spin a sort of spider's web among the minds of American literary figures, Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, Hawthorne and Melville
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- Post Horizon Booksellers
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 037262
- Title
- American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
- Author
- Matthiessen, F. O
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 5th or later Printing
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, USA
- Date Published
- 1954
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Ralph Waldo Emerson. Walt Whitman. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Henry Melville. David Thoreau. American literature - pre-Civil War - criticism
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