The American Spirit in Literature (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

This 1918 critical history identifies writers whose works capture the spirit of a pioneer nation, and explores how they define the new state. Perry’s subjects include Walt Whitman, James Fennimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and Henry James.