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The Flowering of New England: 1815–1865

Van Wyck Brooks

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#89 of 3,809 books · #26 in History

Won the Pulitzer Prize for History (1937) and the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1936).

The Flowering of New England won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for History. A history of the cultural and intellectual flowering of New England between 1815 and 1865, telling the story of the era's writers and thinkers in their environment through a narrative style closer to storytelling than conventional literary history. It brings readers into the intellectual circle of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, and the Alcotts, and the wider literary and artistic scene surrounding them, capturing a period when a dozen figures of genius gathered together and talent seemed to be everywhere in New England.

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Publisher
Andesite Press
ISBN-13
9781376163476
Genre
History
Topics
New England intellectual historyAmerican literatureTranscendentalism

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