The chief glory of every people; [electronic resource] essays on classic American writers. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli.

Includes bibliographical references.

Fenimore Cooper : the development of the novelist / James Grossman -- Stephen Crane in our time / Marston Lafrance -- The relevance of John Dewey's thought / Sidney Hook -- Mr. Emerson of Boston / Eleanor M. Tilton -- Consistency in the mind and work of Hawthorne / Arlin Turner -- William Dean Howells : Perception and ambivalence / Clayton L. Eichelberger -- Washington Irving : nonsense, the fat of the land and the dream of indolence / William L. Hedges -- Herman Melville, 1972 / Jay Leyda -- William Gilmore Simms / Thomas L. McHaney -- Henry Thoreau and the Reverend Poluphloisboios Thalassa / Joel Porte -- Mark Twain : the triumph of humor / James M. Cox -- Walt Whitman's omnisexual vision / James E. Miller, Jr.

Also issued online.