Main Currents in American Thought

Literature & Fiction

Vernon Louis Parrington

History & Criticism

Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd)

When Parrington's Pulitzer Prize-winning history of American ideas was first published, Henry Seidel Canby wrote, "This is a work of the first importance, lucid, comprehensive, accurate as sound scholarship should be, and also challenging, original in its thinking, shrewd, and sometimes brilliant." Alfred Kazin has called Main Currents in American Thought "the most ambitious single effort of the Progressive mind to understand itself."
In the Foreword to this new edition, David W. Levy argues that Parrington's intellectual survey "will stand as a model for venturesome scholars for years to come. Readers and scholars of the rising generation may not follow Parrington's particular judgments or point of view, but it is hard to believe that they will not still be captivated and inspired by his sparkle, his breadth, his daring, and the ardor of his political commitment."
Volume I, The Colonial Mind, 1620-1800, treats such influential figures as John Winthrop, Roger Williams, Samuel Sewall, Increase and Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Tom Paine, and Thomas Jefferson.

Main Currents in American Thought, Vol. 1: The Colonial Mind, 1620-1800

Univ. of Oklahoma Press

Main Currents in American Thought will stand as a model for venturesome scholars for years to come. Readers and scholars of the rising generation may not follow Parrington’s particular judgments or point of view, but it is hard to believe that they will not still be captivated and inspired by his sparkle, his daring, and the ardor of his political commitment.In Volume II, The Romantic Revolution in America, 1800 - 1860, Parrington treats such influential figures as John Marshall, John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, Daniel Webster, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne

1927. Part Three of Three. The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America covers the period from 1860 to 1920. Introduces The Great Revolution: A New America in the Making: Rise of capitalistic industrialism submerging the older agrarianism, the Enlightenment, the Jacksonian frontier; Aristocracy Dead: The principle of democracy accepted, yet driving toward a plutocracy. A middle-class, urban civilization; Cleavages: Western agrarianism; Eastern capitalism. The South confused, bitter, hesitant. Expansion of the frontier and the cities. The swift extension of the psychology of the city; Changing Patterns of Thought: From the frontier came the doctrine of preemption, exploitation, progress; From the impact of science came the dissipation of the Enlightenment and a spirit of realism; From European proletarian philosophies came a new social theory; and Certain Drifts: to unity, to realism, to criticism. A wonderful account of the genesis and development in American letters of certain germinal ideas that have come to be reckoned traditionally American-how they came into being here, how they were opposed, and what influence they have exerted in determining the form and scope of our ideals and institutions. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): Part 1, 1417908157; Part 2, 1417908165.

Main Currents in American Thought: The Colonial Mind, 16201800

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Main Currents in American Thought

Main Currents in American Thought, Vol. 1: The Colonial Mind, 1620-1800

Main Currents in American Thought

Main Currents in American Thought: The Colonial Mind, 16201800