- American literature, History, History and criticism, Intellectual life
Includes material on Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's cabin, the Battle hymn of the Republic, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Frederick L. Olmstead; Mary Chesnut, John S. Mosby, Robert E. Lee, Alexander H. Stephens, Sidney Lanier, Albion W. Tourgee, George W. Cable, Kate Chopin, Thomas Nelson Page, Ambrose Bierce, and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, among others.
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Grave, classical in form, prestige and cool.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Edmund Wilson
- First published
- 1962
- Pages
- 816
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, A. Deutsch, Andre Deutsch
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780374514037
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