Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFACE vii
3. CONTENTS xi
4. PART I THE NEED FOR LITERARY HISTORY
5. I AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP AND AMERICAN LITERATURE 1
6. 2. DESIDERATA IN COLONIAL LITERARY HISTORY 12
7. 3 AMERICAN LITERATURE AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR CULTURAL ANALYSIS 28
8. PART II STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF IDEAS IN AMERICA
9. 4 ORIGINS OF THE COLONIAL IDEA 45
10. 5 AMERICAN PROSE STYLE: 1700-1770 70
11. 6 THE DRIFT TO LIBERALISM IN THE AMERICAN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 107
12. 7 THE INFLUENCE OF EUROPEAN IDEAS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA 125
13. 8 THE RENAISSANCE AND AMERICAN ORIGINS 140
14. PART III THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE
15. 9 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR ONCE MORE 152
16. 10 NOBILITY WANTED 168
17. 11 AMERICAN LITERATURE AND THE MELTING POT 185
18. 12 NEW ENGLAND DILEMMA 205
19. 13 TRIBALISM 223
20. NOTES 237