- Preface, 1996
- Prologue, 1918: Old Man in a Dry Month
- I. The Self as Power: America When Young, 1830–1865
- 1. The Priest Departs, the Divine Literatus Comes: Emerson
- 2. Things Are in the Saddle and Ride Mankind: Emerson
- 3. A Lover and His Guilty Land: Thoreau
- 4. The Ghost Sense: Hawthorne and Poe
- 5. A More Perfect Union: Whitman to Lincoln
- II. Modern Times, 1865–1900
- 6. “Melville Is Dwelling Somewhere in New York”
- 7. Wrecked, Solitary, Here: Dickinson’s Room of Her Own
- 8. Creatures of Circumstance: Mark Twain
- 9. The James Country
- 10. Chicago and “the East”: Dreiser, Adams, Mark Twain
- 11. The Youth: Stephen Crane
- III. Ruling Style: History and the Moderns, 1900–1929
- 12. A Postponed Power: Henry Adams
- 13. Going to Europe: Eliot and Pound
- 14. An American Tragedy and The Sound and the Fury
- 15. Hemingway the Painter
- Retrospect, 1932: The Twenties and the Great American Thing
- Index
An American Procession
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$31.00 • £26.95 • €28.95
ISBN 9780674031432
Publication Date: 03/01/1996
Awards & Accolades
- Alfred Kazin was Awarded the First Truman Capote Literary Trust Lifetime Achievement Award in Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin
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