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The blood is chemically reduced by the nerves, in American activity. When an Italian labourer labours, his mind and nerves sleep, his blood acts ponderously. Americans, when they are doing things, never seem really to be doing them. They are 'busy about' it. They are always busy 'about' something.
Studies in Classic American Literature, first published in 1923, provides a cross-section of D. H. Lawrence's writing on American literature, including landmark essays on Benjamin Franklin, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville and Walt Whitman. Eight of the essays were first published in the English Review 1918–19; but Lawrence continued to work on his ...
In seeking to establish the status of writings by such authors as Poe, Melville, Fenimore Cooper and Whitman, Lawrence himself has created a classic work. Studies in Classic American Literature is valuable not only for the light it sheds on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American consciousness, telling 'the truth of the day', but also as a ...
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1. Dez. 1990 · Studies in Classic American Literature is valuable not only for the light it sheds on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American consciousness, telling 'the truth of the day', but also as a prime example of Lawrence's learning, passion and integrity of judgement.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more ...
Studies in Classic American Literature. Mass Market Paperback – January 1, 1951. Lawrence asserted that 'the proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it'. In these highly individual, penetrating essays he has exposed 'the American whole soul' within some of that continent's major works of literature.
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About Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture. Established in 1981 and with well over 100 titles now in print, Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture is internationally regarded as the leading forum for high-level American critical studies. Volumes in the series are written by outstanding scholars from the United ...
9. März 2024 · LibriVox recording of Studies in Classic American Literature by D. H. Lawrence. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers The staid academic title belies the freewheeling prose of D.H. Lawrence's essays, which are as contrarian, penetrating, and sometimes unpalatable as one might expect from the author.
