A01=R. W. B. Lewis
adam
america
Author_R. W. B. Lewis
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hero
heroism
history
holmes
horace bushnell
human nature
jd salinger
literature
melville
national identity
new man
nonfiction
parker
parkman
past
ralph ellison
saul bellow
thoreau
virtue
whitman
william faulkner
Product details
- ISBN 9780226476810
- Weight: 255g
- Dimensions: 13 x 20mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 1959
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Intellectual history is viewed in this book as a series of "great conversations"—dramatic dialogues in which a culture's spokesmen wrestle with the leading questions of their times. In nineteenth-century America the great argument centered about De Crèvecoeur's "new man," the American, an innocent Adam in a bright new world dissociating himself from the historic past. Mr. Lewis reveals this vital preoccupation as a pervasive, transforming ingredient of the American mind, illuminating history and theology as well as art, shaping the consciousness of lesser thinkers as fully as it shaped the giants of the age. He traces the Adamic theme in the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Henry James, and others, and in an Epilogue he exposes their continuing spirit in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, J. D. Salinger, and Saul Bellow.
