CONTENTS FOREWORD I. THE SPIRIT OF PLACE II. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN III. HECTOR ST. JOHN DE CRÈVECŒUR IV. FENIMORE COOPER'S WHITE NOVELS V. FENIMORE COOPER'S LEATHERSTOCKING NOVELS VI. EDGAR ALLAN POE VII. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE AND "THE SCARLET LETTER" VIII. HAWTHORNE'S "BLITHEDALE ROMANCE" IX. DANA'S "TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST" X. HERMAN MELVILLE'S "TYPEE" AND "OMOO" XI. HERMAN MELVILLE'S "MOBY DICK" XII. WHITMAN Listen to the States asserting: "The hour has struck! Americans shall be American. The U.S.A. is now grown up artistically. It is time we ceased to hang on to the skirts of Europe, or to behave like schoolboys let loose from European schoolmasters--"…
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