Main Currents in American Thought

Parrington, Vernon Louis: Main Currents in American Thought 1 The Colonial Mind 1620-1800, New York A Harvest Book - Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc. ; weicher Einband / soft cover
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Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Covers, Edges Heavily Soiled. BOOK NUMBER: HB 4. CONTENTS: BOOK I: LIBERALISM AND PURITANISM; Part I The Puritan Heritage - 1620-1660; I. English Backgrounds; II. The Transplanting of Ideas; III. The Chief Stewards of Theocracy; IV. The Contributions of Independency; V. Other Dreamers in Israel; Part II The Twilight of the Oligarchy - 1660-1720; I. Samuel Sewall - Yankee; II. The Mather Dynasty; III. Stirrings of Liberalism; BOOK II: THE COLONIAL MIND; Part I The Mind in the Making - 1720-1763; I. Colonial Backgrounds; II. The Anachronism of Jonathan Edwards; III. Benjamin Franklin - Our First Ambassador; Part II The Awakening of the American Mind - 1763-1783; I. Imperial Sovereignty and Home Rule; II. The Mind of the American Tory; III. John Dickinson - The Mind of the American Whig; IV. Samuel Adams - The Mind of the American Democrat; V. Literary Echoes; BOOK III: LIBERALISM AND THE CONSTITUTION; Part I The Agrarian Defeat - 1783-1787; I. Agrarianism and Capitalism; II. The Great Debate; III. Political Thinkers - The English Group; Part II Political Democracy Gets Under Way - 1787-1800; I. The Impact of the French Revolution; II. Political Thinkers - The French Group; III. The War of Belles Lettres; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. SYNOPSIS: Of Parrington's Pulitzer Prize study of men and ideas in America, Henry Seidel Canby wrote: "This is a work of the first importance, lucid, comprehensive, accurate as sound scholarship should be, and also challenging, original in its thinking, shrewd, and sometimes brilliant . . . It is a genuine history of ideas, clearly seen, tirelessly followed, admirably analyzed. Indeed it is the book which historians and critics of American literature have been waiting and hoping for." In this volume Parrington treats of such makers of the American mind as Thomas Hooker, Roger Williams, Samuel Sewall, Increase and Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Tom Paine, and Thomas Jefferson. Vernon Louis Parrington was born in Aurora, Illinois, in 1871, and was graduated from Harvard University. In 1908 he became Professor of English at the University of Washington. He died suddenly in 1929, at the height of his critical powers. His masterpiece, Main Currents in American Thought, in two volumes, The Colonial Mind (1620-1800) and The Romantic Revolution in America (1800-1860), appeared in 1972. The final volume, The Beginnings of Critical Realism (1860-1920) was published posthumously and in fragmentary form in 1930. Mass Market Paperback 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

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Shaw, Irwin (foreword by Alfred Kazin): SHORT STORIES - Five Decades: The Eighty Yard Run; Borough of Cemeteries; Main Currents of American Thought; Second Mortgage; Sailor off the Bremen; Strawberry Ice Cream Soda; Welcome to the City; The Girls in Their Summer Dresses, New York Delacorte Press 1984
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(xxiv) 756 pp. Edge and corner wear with a faint partial crease on the spine; no interior markings. This collection contains: The Eighty Yard Run; Borough of Cemeteries; Main Currents of American Thought; Second Mortgage; Sailor off the Bremen; Strawberry Ice Cream Soda; Welcome to the City; The Girls in Their Summer Dresses; Search Through the Streets of the City; The Monument; I Stand by Dempsey; God on a Friday Night; Return to Kansas City; Triumph of Justice; No Jury Would Convict; The Lament of Madame Rechevsky; The Deputy Sheriff; Stop Pushing Rocky; March March Down the Field; Free Conscience Void of Offence; Weep in Years to Come; The City Was in Total Darkness; Night Birth and Opinion; Preach on the Dusty Roads; Hamlets of the World; Medal from Jerusalem; Walking Wounded; Night in Algiers; Gunners' Passage; Retreat; Act of Faith; The Man with One Arm; The Passion of Lance Corporal Hawkins; The Dry Rock; Noises in the City; The Indian in Depth of Night; Material Witness; Little Henry Irving; The House of Pain; A Year to Learn the Language; The Greek General; The Green Nude; The Climate of Insomnia; Goldilocks at Graveside; Mixed Doubles; A Wicked Story; Age of Reason; Peter Two; The Sunny Banks of the River Lethe; The Man Who Married a French Wife; Voyage Out Voyage Home; Tip on a Dead Jockey; The Inhabitants of Venus; In the French Style; Then We Were Three; God Was Her But He Left Early; Love on a Dark Street; Small Saturday; Pattern of Love; Whispers in Bedlam; Where All Things Wise and Fair Descend; Full Many a Flower; and Circle of Light. First Thus Trade Paperback 8vo

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Parrington, Vernon L.. Main Currents in American Thought - Volume I - the Colonial Mind 1620-1800. NY: Harvest By Harcourt,brace & World, 1954.
420 pages; Very Good Plus condition. Faint front hinge crease. No spine creases. Tiny bit of shelf rub at edges. Solid, clean. Of Parrington's Pulitzer Prize study of men and ideas in America, Henry Seidel Canby wrote: This a work of the first importance, lucid, comprehensive, accurate as sound scholarship should be, and also challenging, original in its thinking, shrewd, and sometimes brilliant. Main Currents in American Thought - Volume I - the Colonial Mind 1620-1800.. 0156551349.

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Vernon Louis Parrington: Main Currents in American Thought: The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America, 1860-1920 (Main currents in American thought / by Vernon Louis Parrington) Univ of Oklahoma Pr 1987-11 ISBN: 0806120827
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