Year: 1953
Type: article
Abstract: Iv becomes more fully understandable.In order to make clear this bias of conservative reaction, in the literary mind, to the excesses and the vulgarities of the day, I have outlined the specific social changes themselves and then studied the reactions to them as exhibited by three authors who were relatively sure of their contempt for the democratic society of these years and who were overt in the expression of their criticism-Ft.H. Dana, Sr., Poe, and Cooper.Having established the point, I then have selected, from among the authors of the Renaissance, Emerson and Hawthorne as examples of the way in which more complex social tensions called forth in an author his best creative and imaginative work.Ehierson and Hawthorne were already writing during the years I have selected for study5 some others of the mid-century groi^p were not.But a critical position similar to the one I have arrived at is inqportant to an understanding of the whole group of Renaissance writers who had lived under, and reacted to, the same conditions of a raw and uncouth leveling democratic society.
Author: John William Nichol
Institution: The Ohio State University
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2805538780