American Literature as an Expression of the National Mind

Adams agrarian American literature aristocratic became belief Boston chief church Civil colony Cotton critics culture deism democracy democratic divine doctrine Dreiser early economic eighteenth century Emerson England English fact farmers force Franklin French frontier German Gilded Age Greeley H. L. Mencken Horace Greeley human humor ideal ideas immigrants individual industry influence intellectual interest Irving Jefferson Jeffersonian Jeffersonian democracy John John Adams labor land large number Leaves of Grass Lincoln literary living Margaret Fuller Mark Twain Massachusetts Mather ment mind ministers moral movement mysticism nature never novelist novels philosophy pioneer poems poet poetry political Puritan readers realistic reform religious Revolution revolutionary romantic romanticism Scotch-Irish slave slavery social society South southern spirit story theocracy Theodore Parker theory things thinking Thoreau thought tion to-day transcendental transcendentalists Virginia wealth West western Whitman William writers wrote York