Late Harvest: Essays and Addresses in American Literature and CultureBloomsbury Academic, 1981 M01 19 - 280 pages Spiller recalls his pilgrimage as a scholar in this moving autobiographical tour through formative years in the history of the American studies movement. He testifies to attempting to become Emerson's "American Scholar", and argues that American studies, as far as he is concerned, appear as a logical extension of his transcendentalist quest after a national literature and culture. |
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Biography of the American Scholar | 3 |
The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper | 17 |
Adventures in Editing | 30 |
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