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Title: The raven and the whale : the ware of words and wits in the era of Peo and Melville / Perry Miller.
Author: Miller, Perry, 1905-1963.
General Notes: Bibliographical references included in "Acknowledgments" (p. 355-356).
Prologue: a New Yorker comes home -- The Knickerbocker set -- Lewis Gaylord Clark's table -- Knickerbocker Whiggery -- John Waters -- Harry Franco -- Chowder -- Young America -- The Tetractys Club -- A protective tariff for native genius -- A pattern of alliances -- Maelstrom in the microcosm -- The literary prospects of 1845 -- Big Abel and the little Manhattan -- The timeliness of Toby -- Tom Pepper -- Literary worlds -- Rear-guard action -- A greater than Shakespeare? -- Hautia -- Recoil -- An American idyl -- A Berkshire idyl -- The genius of Charles Dickens -- A savage at heart -- Epilogue: ghosts.

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace,
Publication Place: New York:
Subject: Criticism -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
Literature publishing -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
Authors and publishers -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Authorship.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Authorship.
Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878.
Clark, Lewis Gaylord, 1808-1873.
Contents: Prologue: a New Yorker comes home -- The Knickerbocker set -- Lewis Gaylord Clark's table -- Knickerbocker Whiggery -- John Waters -- Harry Franco -- Chowder -- Young America -- The Tetractys Club -- A protective tariff for native genius -- A pattern of alliances -- Maelstrom in the microcosm -- The literary prospects of 1845 -- Big Abel and the little Manhattan -- The timeliness of Toby -- Tom Pepper -- Literary worlds -- Rear-guard action -- A greater than Shakespeare? -- Hautia -- Recoil -- An American idyl -- A Berkshire idyl -- The genius of Charles Dickens -- A savage at heart -- Epilogue: ghosts.

Physical Description: viii, 370 pages portraits (on lining papers)

Publication Date: 1956.

Agency:	Collection:	Call No.:	Item Type:	Status:	Copy:	Barcode:	Media Type:
Faculty of Arts	General	820.903 M649	Normal Circulation	Available	1	JUF0795355	Book
JU Main Library	General	820.903 M649	Normal Circulation	Available	1	JUF0063224	Book