title: New England Beyond Criticism: In Defense of Americas First Literature (Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos)
author:  Elisa New 
description: "Elisa New is a refreshing voice among critics and historians ofliterature. She has a keen sense of the nature of New Englandand its deep spiritual resources, reaching back to the Puritans,moving through the great nineteenth century expressions of interiorlandscapes and visions.Her readings strike me asarepassionate, original, and very much at odds with a good deal thatis now being said in academic circles. To say she iseccentric means, quite literally, that she stands outside of thecenter.In this, she seems in keeping with her Puritan fathersand mothers, those dark visionaries who gave birth to Hawthorne,Emerson, Thoreau, Dickinson, and others.This is a book Iwelcome and celebrate."<br /><b>Jay Parini</b>, Middlebury College<br /><br />
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  **History of American Literature**
  
   **Reuben Post Halleck**
  
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  * PREFACE
  * CHAPTER I. COLONIAL LITERATURE
  * CHAPTER II. THE EMERGENCE OF A NATION
  * CHAPTER III. THE NEW YORK GROUP
  * CHAPTER IV. THE NEW ENGLAND GROUP
  * CHAPTER V. SOUTHERN LITERATURE
  * CHAPTER VI. WESTERN LITERATURE
  * CHAPTER VII. THE EASTERN REALISTS
  * SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF AUTHORS AND THEIR CHIEF WORKS
    
  
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   **PREFACE**
  
  The wide use of the author's _History of English Literature_ , the favor with
  which it has been received in all parts of the United States, and the number
  of earnest requests for a _History of American Literature_ on the same plan,
  have led to the writing of this book. It has not appeared sooner because the
  author has followed his rule of making a careful first-hand study, not only of
  all the matter discussed, but also of a far gre