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Author : Henry A. Beers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:263425741
Author : Henry Augustin Beers
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230340238
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. LITERATURE IN THE CITIES. 1837-1861. Literature as a profession has hardly existed in the United States until very recently. Even now the number of those who support themselves by purely literary work is small, although the growth of the reading public and the establishment of great magazines, such as Harper's, the Century, and the Atlantic, have made a market for intellectual wares which forty years ago would have seemed a godsend to poorly paid Bohemians like Poe or obscure men of genius like Hawthorne. About 1840 two Philadelphia magazines--Godey's Lady's Book and Graham's Monthly--began to pay their contributors twelve dollars a page, a price then thought wildly munificent. But the first magazine of the modern type was Harper's Monthly, founded in 1850. American books have always suffered, and still continue to suffer, from the want of an international copyright, which has flooded the country with cheap reprints and translations of foreign works, with which the domestic product has been unable to contend on such uneven terms. With the first ocean steamers there started up a class of large-paged weeklies in New York and elsewhere, such as Brother Jonathan, the New World, and the Corsair, which furnished their readers with the freshest writings of Dickens and Bulwer and other British celebrities within a fortnight after their appearance in London. This still further restricted the profits of native authors and nearly drove them from the field of periodical literature. By special arrangement the novels of Thackeray and other English writers were printed in Harper's in installments simultaneously with their issue in English periodicals. The Atlantic was the first of our magazines which was founded expressly for the...
Author : Henry Augustin Beers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : American literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044102788478
Author : Henry Augustin Beers
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1021206210
This book provides a comprehensive overview of American literature, examining the various forms, genres and authors that have contributed to its development. Beers explores the evolution of American literature from its earliest beginnings to the present day, highlighting the major themes and issues that have shaped it. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Henry A 1847-1926 Beers
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 135963214X
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Henry Augustin Beers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : American literature
ISBN : HARVARD:HWXIQY
Author : Henry Augustin Beers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1296279928
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Henry Augustin Beers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : English literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044029008596
Author : Robert F. Sayre
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1992-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521424828
This review of Thoreau's classic contains a short biography of the author, an account of the writing of Walden, and a summary of other critical views.
Author : Henry A. Beers
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547533375
"Brief History of English and American Literature" by Henry A. Beers. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Kermit Vanderbilt
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1989-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812212916
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Bibliographies
ISBN : NYPL:33433081657516
Author : Henry Augustin 1847-1926 Beers
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1371350094
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Fred Lewis Pattee
Publisher : New York : [s.n.]
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:32044102848470
Author : Kalamazoo Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Public libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015033606883