Prepared as the four-thousandth volume of the Tauchnitz Edition, the Leipzig series of English-language books for Continental readers, this survey traces American writing from colonial literature and the Revolutionary period through the nineteenth century. It discusses poets, novelists, historians and humorists in turn, and closes with a list of American authors issued by Tauchnitz.
A useful early-twentieth-century view of the American canon, for readers curious how its reputations looked a century ago. Download the free EPUB.