American Literature as an Expression of the National Mind

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