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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 17 1783 1850 (search)
Chapter 17: writers on American history, 1783-1850
For a more extended treatment of the historians of the period, see the author's Middle group of American historians (1917).
The Revolutionary War gave our historians new motives for writing.
A glorious struggle was to be described; the states, just raised out of the rank of colonies, began to demand the preservation of their earliest history; and the nation, inspired by great hopes for the future, felt that it must have loyal men to prepare the record of common growth and common achievement.
The men who responded to these impulses were, perhaps, less cultured than the best of the old historians.
It was long before there appeared among them one who could be ranked with Hutchinson, though some of them wrote well and displayed great industry.
The stream was wider than formerly, but it was not so deep.
Of those who wrote about the Revolution, in one phase or another, the best were the Rev. William Gordon, Dr. David Ramsay,
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 18 Prescott Motley
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), chapter 1.9 (search)
Chapter 20: magazines, annuals, and gift-books, 1783-1850
I. Magazines
Of the short-lived literary journals that were founded before and during the American Revolution, none appears to have survived the closing years of that struggle.
Hardly had peace been declared, however, before new magazines were undertaken, and throughout the years covered by this chapter much of the literary history of America is bound up with a history of its periodicals.
A complete account of American magazines during the early part of this period would be to a great extent a story of literary Chauvinism, of absurd literary ambition on the part of individuals and of communities, of misplaced faith in the literary tastes and interests of the people.
The many failures are reminders of the unattained intellectual ambitions of the nation; a few commercially prosperous magazines furnish an index to the taste of the average reader; and a few show the best that was being thought and written.
In a brief pr
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 21 1775 1860 (search)
Chapter 21: Newspapers, 1775-1860
The turbulent years between 1775 and 1783 were a time of great trial and disturbance among newspapers.
Interruption, suppression, and lack of support so checked their growth that at the close of the war they were in most respects less thriving than at the beginning of it. Although there were forty-three newspapers in the United States when the treaty of peace was signed, as compared with thirty-seven on the date of the battle of Lexington, only a dozen hathe same year the New York Journal was published twice a week, as were several of the papers begun in that year.
There was a notable extension to new fields.
In Vermont, where the first paper, established in 1781, had soon died, another arose in 1783; in Maine two were started in 1785.
In 1786 the first one west of the Alleghanies appeared at Pittsburg, and following the westward tide of immigration The Kentucky Gazette was begun at Lexington in 1787.
Conditions were hardly more favourable
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 22 1783 1860 (search)
Chapter 22: divines and moralists, 1783-1860
The writings of the American clergy between the Revolution and the Civil War have Jonathan Edwards
See Book I, Chap.
IV for Edwards.
For divines other than Congregational and Unitarian see Book III, Chap.
XVII. fQr their point of departure, and carry onward the tendencies he brought to a focus.
Let us rather say two focuses: for Edwards is great precisely in the intensity with which he manifests a tough-mindedness and a tender-mindedness that are universal.
He is at once dogmatist and mystic; he works out his theology into dualistic metaphysics, yet he knows himself to be one with God; though he philosophizes away the Freedom of the Will, and preaches Hell for sinners, yet he meditates also the Benevolence of the Deity, and is translated into mystical rhapsodies upon the divine love and upon Nature as its symbol and emanation.
The primacy he gives to motivation places him with those who insist that reward and punishment must b
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 7