From Home and Abroad

From Home and Abroad American and British Writers in Philadelphia 1800-1910

Hardback (28 Mar 1995)

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Publisher's Synopsis

This book is a detailed account of the visits of twenty-one famous writers-four British and seventeen American-who visited Philadelphia. Burke focuses on the literary history of Philadelphia. Contents: Preface; Passing Through; Thomas Moore; Washington Irving; Ralph Waldo Emerson; (Amos) Bronson Alcott; James Fenimore Cooper; Edgar Allan Poe; John Greenleaf Whittier; Charles Dickens; James Russell Lowell; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; William Makepeace Thackeray; Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain); Henry David Thoreau; Emily Dickinson; Walt Whitman; William Dean Howells; Oscar Wilde; Edith Wharton; Theodore Dreiser; William Carlos Williams; Henry James.

Book information

ISBN: 9780819195913
Publisher: UPA
Imprint: University Publishing Association
Pub date:
DEWEY: 810.9974811
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 101
Weight: 367g
Height: 231mm
Width: 164mm
Spine width: 16mm