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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
in Williamsburg, the old capital of the Dominion; they reproduce a society strangely made up of luxury, daintiness, elegance, penury, ugliness, brutality. At times the dialogue of Cooke's impetuous cavaliers and merry girls nearly catches the flavour of the Forest of Arden, but there is generally something stilted in their speech or behaviour that spoils the gay illusion. Nevertheless, The Virginia comedians may justly be called the best Virginia novel of the old regime, unless possibly Swallow Barn Ibid should be excepted, for reality as well as for colour and spirit. During the Civil War Cooke fought, as captain of cavalry, under Stuart, and had experiences which he afterwards turned to use in a series of Confederate romances, most notable of which is Surry of eagle's Nest (1866). But in this and in the related tales Hilt to Hilt (1869) and Mohun (1869), as well as in numerous later novels, he continued to practice an old manner which grew steadily more archaic as the realists ga
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
mann, 294 Suetonius, 6 Sulamith, 608 Sullivan, James, 430 Sultan of Sulu, the, 289 Sumner, Charles, 115-117, 126, 346, 350, 415 Sumner, William G., 355, 363, 440 Sun (N. Y.), 324 Sun and saddle Leather, 161 Sun dance, 616 Sun-day hymn, 499 Supernatural origin of Christianity, the, 208 Superstition and force, 194 Supplement (to Webster's Dictionary), 477 Surf, 275, 276 Surry of eagle's Nest, 67 Survey, 333 Susan Lenox, 94 Sutter, John A., 140, 145 Swallow Barn, 67 Swan, James, 429 Swedenborg, 100 Swift, 475 Swimming Coffin, the, 601 Swinburne, 54, 97, 107 Swinton, William, 181 Swords, James, 537 Swords, Thomas, 537 Sylvis, W. H., 344 Synopsis (Webster), 476 Syntax of classical Greek, 466 Syntax of the moods and tenses of the Greek verb, 465 Syria from the saddle, 165 Systematic theology, 201 Tablets, 528, 529 Tacitus, 463 Taft, W. H., 166 Taggart, F. J., 146 Taine, 75, 258 Taittiriya Praticakh