American Literature as an Expression of the National Mind

Adams American literature aristocratic became Boston Cabell characters chief church Civil colony Cotton Mather critics culture deism democracy democratic divine doctrine Dreiser early economic eighteenth century Emerson England English fact farmers fiction Franklin French frontier Gilded Age H. L. Mencken Hamlin Garland human humor ideal ideas immigrants individual industry influence intellectual interest Jefferson Jeffersonian Jeffersonian democracy John labor land large number Leaves of Grass Lincoln literary lived Lowell Mark Twain Massachusetts Mather ment mind ministers moral mystic naturalistic nature Negro never novel novelist philosophy pioneer poems poet poetic poetry political popular Puritan readers realistic reform religious Revolution revolutionary romantic romanticism Scotch-Irish slavery social society spirit Spoon River Anthology story theocracy theory things thinking Thoreau thought tion to-day transcendentalists verse village Virginia Walt Whitman wealth West western Whitman William writers wrote York