TY  - BOOK
AU  - Horton,Rod William
AU  - Edwards,Herbert W.
TI  - Backgrounds of American literary thought
T2  - Appleton-Century handbooks of literature
AV  - PS88 .H678 1967
PY  - 1967///
CY  - New York
PB  - Appleton-Century-Crofts
KW  - American literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - United States
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Intellectual life
N1  - BIBINDX; Idealism -- Puritanism -- Enlightenment in the colonies -- Political patterns in the early republic -- Unitarianism and transcendentalism -- Expansionism -- The triumph of industry -- Evolution and pragmatism -- Gentility and revolt -- Marxism -- Literary naturalism -- Imperialism and isolation -- Babbitts, bootleggers, and sad young men -- Intellectual currents of the twenties : Freudianism and others -- The sense of tragedy : patterns of Southern experience -- Breadlines and big government -- Science and essence in the postwar world
N2  - Surveys the intellectual, social, political, and economic trends and events that inspired the works of America's leading writers since the Puritan Era
ER  -