Baym's List of Male LitCrit Titles Based on a Myth of "Americanness"

Author Matthiessen, F. O. (Francis Otto), 1902-1950
Title American renaissance; art and expression in the age of Emerson and Whitman [by] F. O. Matthiessen
Pub. Info. London, New York [etc.] Oxford university press 1964, c1941
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
  Main Collection  810.9 M44a         AVAILABLE
Descript xxiv p., 2 l., 3-678 p. front., plates, ports. 25 cm
Contents From Emerson to Thoreau -- Hawthorne -- Melville -- Whitman
LC SUBJ HDG American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Author Porte, Joel
Title The romance in America : studies in Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and James / by Joel Porte
Pub. Info. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 1972, c1969
Edition 1st paperback ed
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
  Main Collection  813.9 P843r         AVAILABLE
Descript xi, 235 p. ; 23 cm
Note "624/literature."
Bibliog. Bibliographical footnotes
LC SUBJ HDG American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Author Feidelson, Charles
Title Symbolism and American literature
Pub. Info. [Chicago] University of Chicago Press [1953]
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
  Main Collection  810.9 F297s 1953         AVAILABLE
Descript x, 355 p. ; 22 cm
Bibliog. Bibliography: p. 220-227
LC SUBJ HDG Symbolism (Literary movement) -- United States
  American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Author Hoffman, Daniel, 1923-
Title Form and fable in American fiction
Pub. Info. New York, Oxford University Press, 1961
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
  Main Collection  813.9 H699     c.2   AVAILABLE
Descript 368 p. 21 cm
LC SUBJ HDG American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  Literature and folklore -- United States
  Folklore in literature -- United States
Author Lewis, R. W. B. (Richard Warrington Baldwin)
Title The American Adam; innocence, tragedy, and tradition in the nineteenth century
Pub. Info. [Chicago] University of Chicago Press [1955]
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
  Main Collection  810.9 L675         AVAILABLE
Descript ix, 204 p. 24 cm
Note Issued also in microfilm form as thesis, University of Chicago
Bibliog. Bibliographical footnotes
LC SUBJ HDG American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865
  United States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-1918
Author Chase, Richard Volney, 1914-1962
Title The American novel and its tradition / Richard Chase
Pub. Info. New York : Gordian Press, 1978
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
  Main Collection  813.9 C48 1978         AVAILABLE
Descript xii, 266 p. ; 23 cm
Note Reprint of the 1st ed. published in 1957 by Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y
Bibliog. Bibliography: p. 247-248
Note Includes index
LC SUBJ HDG American fiction -- History and criticism
Author Poirier, Richard
Title A world elsewhere; the place of style in American literature
Pub. Info. New York, Oxford University Press, 1973, c1966
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
  Main Collection  810.9 P753w     c.2   AVAILABLE
Descript xi, 257 p. 21 cm
LC SUBJ HDG American literature -- History and criticism

The adventurous muse: The poetics of American fiction, 1789-1900
William C Spengemann Publisher: Yale University Press, 1977.

Author Bewley, Marius
Title The eccentric design; form in the classic American novel
Pub. Info. New York, Columbia University Press, 1959
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
  Main Collection  813.9 B57         AVAILABLE
Descript 327 p. 23 cm
Bibliog. Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 314-324)
LC SUBJ HDG American fiction -- History and criticism
Author Bercovitch, Sacvan
Title The Puritan origins of the American self / Sacvan Bercovitch
Pub. Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1975
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
  Main Collection  973.2 B486p         AVAILABLE
Descript x, 250 p. ; 25 cm
Note Errata slip inserted
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references and index
LC SUBJ HDG Puritans -- New England
  Puritans -- Doctrines -- History
  New England -- Intellectual life
Author Bloom, Harold
Title The Anxiety of influence : a theory of poetry
Pub. Info. New York, Oxford University Press, 1973
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
  Main Collection  808.1 B655a         AVAILABLE
Descript 157 p. 22 cm
LC SUBJ HDG Poetry