Main Currents in American Thought

Literature & Fiction

Parrington, Vernon Louis

History & Criticism

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Examines the writings of John Winthrop, Roger Williams, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Tom Paine, and Thomas Jefferson

The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America 1860-1920: Main Currents in American Thought, Vol. 3

United States

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

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 scholarship should be, and also challenging, original in its thinking, shrewd, and sometimes brilliant." Alfred Kazin has called Main Currents in American Thought "the most ambitious single effort of the Progressive mind to understand itself." In the Foreword to this new edition, David W. Levy argues that Parrington's intellectual survey "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 or point of view, but it is hard to believe that they will not still be captivated and inspired by his sparkle, his breadth, his daring, and the ardor of his political commitment." 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.

Main Currents in American Thought: Volume 1 - The Colonial Mind, 1620-1800

University of Oklahoma Press

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 or point of view, but it is hard to believe that they will not still be captivated and inspired by his sparkle, his daring, and the ardor of his political commitment.
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

Main Currents in American Thought: Volume 2 - The Romantic Revolution in America, 1800-1860

Main Currents in American Thought: The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America, 1860-1920 Vol. III

The development of literature between 1800 and 1860 in the United States was heavily influenced by two wars. The War of 1812 hastened the development of nineteenth-century ideals, and the Civil War uprooted certain growths of those vigorous years. The half century between these dramatic episodes was a period of extravagant vigor, the final outcome being the emergence of a new middle class.Parrington argues that America was becoming a new world with undreamed potential. This new era was no longer content with the ways of a founding generation. The older America of colonial days had been static, rationalistic, inclined to pessimism, and fearful of innovation. During the years between the Peace of Paris (1763) and the end of the War of 1812, older America was dying. The America that emerged, which is the focal point of this volume, was a shifting, restless world, eager to better itself, bent on finding easier roads to wealth than the plodding path of natural increase.The culture of this period also changed. Formal biographies written in this period often gave way to eulogy; it was believed that a writer was under obligation to speak well of the dead. Consequently, scarcely a single commentary of the times can be trusted, and the critic is reduced to patching together his account out of scanty odds and ends. A new introduction by Bruce Brown highlights the life of Vernon Louis Parrington and explains the importance of this second volume in the Pulitzer Prize-winning study.

The Romantic Revolution in America: 1800-1860: Main Currents in American Thought

Routledge

The development of literature between 1800 and 1860 in the United States was heavily influenced by two wars. The War of 1812 hastened the development of nineteenth-century ideals, and the Civil War uprooted certain growths of those vigorous years. The half century between these dramatic episodes was a period of extravagant vigor, the final outcome being the emergence of a new middle class. Parrington argues that America was becoming a new world with undreamed potential. This new era was no longer content with the ways of a founding generation. The older America of colonial days had been static, rationalistic, inclined to pessimism, and fearful of innovation. During the years between the Peace of Paris (1763) and the end of the War of 1812, older America was dying. The America that emerged, which is the focal point of this volume,was a shifting, restless world, eager to better itself, bent on finding easier roads to wealth than the plodding path of natural increase. The culture of this period also changed. Formal biographies written in this period often gave way to eulogy; it was believed that a writer was under obligation to speak well of the dead. Consequently, scarcely a single commentary of the times can be trusted, and the critic is reduced to patching together his account out of scanty odds and ends. A new introduction by Bruce Brown highlights the life of Vernon Louis Parrington and explains the importance of this second volume in the Pulitzer Prize-winning study.

The Romantic Revolution in America: 1800-1860: Main Currents in American Thought (Main Currents in American Thought, 2)

1927. Part One of Three. The Colonial Mind covers the period from 1620 to 1800. Contains: The theme stated; party played by European intellectual movements; influence in colonial America of old-world liberalisms-English Independency, French romantic theory; incoming of a diverse philosophy-English laissez faire; significance of theology and politics in colonial America. A wonderful account of the genesis and development in American letters of certain germinal ideas that have come to be reckoned traditionally American-how they came into being here, how they were opposed, and what influence they have exerted in determining the form and scope of our ideals and institutions. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): Part 2, 1417908165; Part 3, 1417908173.

Main Currents in American Thought: An Interpretation of American Literature from the Beginnings to 1920

Kessinger Pub Co

1927. Part Three of Three. The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America covers the period from 1860 to 1920. Introduces The Great Revolution: A New America in the Making: Rise of capitalistic industrialism submerging the older agrarianism, the Enlightenment, the Jacksonian frontier; Aristocracy Dead: The principle of democracy accepted, yet driving toward a plutocracy. A middle-class, urban civilization; Cleavages: Western agrarianism; Eastern capitalism. The South confused, bitter, hesitant. Expansion of the frontier and the cities. The swift extension of the psychology of the city; Changing Patterns of Thought: From the frontier came the doctrine of preemption, exploitation, progress; From the impact of science came the dissipation of the Enlightenment and a spirit of realism; From European proletarian philosophies came a new social theory; and Certain Drifts: to unity, to realism, to criticism. A wonderful account of the genesis and development in American letters of certain germinal ideas that have come to be reckoned traditionally American-how they came into being here, how they were opposed, and what influence they have exerted in determining the form and scope of our ideals and institutions. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): Part 1, 1417908157; Part 2, 1417908165.

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Main Currents in American Thought

The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America 1860-1920: Main Currents in American Thought, Vol. 3

Main Currents in American Thought: Volume 1 - The Colonial Mind, 1620-1800

Main Currents in American Thought: Volume 2 - The Romantic Revolution in America, 1800-1860

Main Currents in American Thought: The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America, 1860-1920 Vol. III

The Romantic Revolution in America: 1800-1860: Main Currents in American Thought

The Romantic Revolution in America: 1800-1860: Main Currents in American Thought (Main Currents in American Thought, 2)

Main Currents in American Thought: An Interpretation of American Literature from the Beginnings to 1920

Main Currents in American Thought: An Interpretation of American Literature from the Beginnings to 1920