The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that...#Carl Clinton Van Doren
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange...#Carl Clinton Van Doren
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in...#Carl Clinton Van Doren
IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power...#Carl Clinton Van Doren
In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation...#Carl Clinton Van Doren
Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of...#Carl Clinton Van Doren
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail...#Carl Clinton Van Doren
Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a...#Carl Clinton Van Doren
