Main Currents in American Thought
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AN INTERPRETATION OF AMERICAN LITERATURE FROM THE BEGINNINGS TO 1920 Vernon Louis Parrington VOLUME ONE • 1620–1800 The Colonial Mind VOLUME TWO • 1800–1860 The Romantic Revolution in America VOLUME THREE • 1860–1920 The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, NEW YORK
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