Main currents in American thought

by Vernon Louis Parrington

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Contents

  1. Foreword
  2. Introduction [to Volume One: The Colonial Mind]
  3. Contents [Volume One]
  4. Book One • Liberalism and Puritanism
  5. Part One: The Puritan Heritage • 1620–1660
  6. Chapter II • The Transplanting of Ideas
  7. Chapter III • The Chief Stewards of Theocracy
  8. Chapter IV • The Contributions of Independency
  9. Chapter V • Other Dreamers in Israel
  10. Part Two: the Twilight of the Oligarchy • 1660–1720
  11. Book Two • The Colonial Mind
  12. Part One: The Mind in the Making • 1720–1763
  13. Part Two: The Awakening of the American Mind • 1763–1783
  14. Part One: The Agrarian Defeat • 1783–1787
  15. Part Two: Political Democracy Gets Under Way • 1787–1800
  16. Conclusion
  17. Bibliography
  18. Book I: Part I
  19. Book I: Part II
  20. Book II: Part I
  21. Book II: Part II
  22. Book III: Part I
  23. Book III: Part II
  24. Index [Volume One]
  25. Foreword
  26. Introduction
  27. Contents [Volume Two]
  28. Book One • The Mind of the South
  29. Part One: The Virginia Renaissance
  30. Part Two: The Renaissance of Slavery
  31. Part Three: The Romance of the West
  32. Book Two • The Mind of the Middle East
  33. Book Three • The Mind of New England
  34. Part One: the Twilight of Federalism
  35. Part Two: The Rise of Liberalism
  36. Part Three: The Transcendental Mind
  37. Part IV: Other Aspects of the New England Mind
  38. Conclusion
  39. Bibliography
  40. Book I: Part I
  41. Book I: Part II
  42. Book I: Part III
  43. Book II
  44. Book III: Part I
  45. Book III: Part II
  46. Book III: Part III
  47. Book III: Part IV
  48. Index [Volume Two]
  49. Vernon Louis Parrington
  50. Foreword
  51. Introduction⁠
  52. Book One • Changing America
  53. Part One: The Gilded Age (part 1)
  54. Part One: The Gilded Age (part 2)
  55. Part Two: New Patterns of Thought
  56. Book Two • The Old and the New: Storm Clouds
  57. Part One: The Middle Border Rises
  58. Part Two: Proletarian Hopes⁠
  59. Addenda
  60. Naturalism in American Fiction⁠
  61. Sidney Lanier⁠
  62. The Incomparable Mr. Cabell⁠
  63. The Problem Novel and the Diversion from Naturalism⁠
  64. Jack London: The Novelist of the Proletariat⁠
  65. Upton Sinclair⁠
  66. Theodore Dreiser: Chief of American Naturalists⁠
  67. Sinclair Lewis: Our Own Diogenes⁠
  68. Sherwood Anderson: A Psychological Naturalist⁠
  69. A New Romance
  70. 1917–1924⁠
  71. Ole Rölvaag’s “Giants in the Earth”⁠
  72. The Short Story⁠
  73. A Chapter in American Liberalism⁠
  74. Bibliography
  75. Index [Volume Three]

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