From Home and Abroad

American and British Writers in Philadelphia 1800-1910

John J Burke author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University Press of America

Published:21st Mar '95

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This book is a detailed account of the visits of twenty-one famous writers—four British and seventeen American—who visited Philadelphia. Burke focuses on the literary history of Philadelphia. Contents: Preface; Passing Through; Thomas Moore; Washington Irving; Ralph Waldo Emerson; (Amos) Bronson Alcott; James Fenimore Cooper; Edgar Allan Poe; John Greenleaf Whittier; Charles Dickens; James Russell Lowell; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; William Makepeace Thackeray; Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain); Henry David Thoreau; Emily Dickinson; Walt Whitman; William Dean Howells; Oscar Wilde; Edith Wharton; Theodore Dreiser; William Carlos Williams; Henry James.

the delight of From Home and Abroad is not its fleeting sociology but its thought-provoking vignettes.. -- Dominic V. O'Brien, Ursinus College * The Philadelphia Inquirer *
...this scholarly handbook will no doubt be greeted enthusiastically by students of the literature of the United States. -- Dominic V. O'Brien, Ursinus College
...this scholarly handbook will no doubt be greeted enthusiastically by students of the literature of the United States. -- Dominic V. O'Brien, Ursinus College
the delight of From Home and Abroad is not its fleeting sociology but its thought-provoking vignettes.. -- Dominic V. O'Brien, Ursinus College * The Philadelphia Inquirer *

ISBN: 9780819195920

Dimensions: 224mm x 164mm x 11mm

Weight: 213g

108 pages