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Main currents in American thought An interpretation of American literature from the beginnings to 1920

Vernon Louis Parrington

_Herman Melville, Mariner and Mystic_, 260, 261, 262, 263, 265 Hervey, James, 31 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 314, 344 n, 351, 414 Hildreth, Richard, 438 _Hints toward Reforms_, 250 n, 252 n, 257 _Hireling and the Slave, The_, 103, 104, 108 _History of the American Drama, A_, 191 _History of the Congregational Churches in the United States_, 324 n, 325 n _History of the United States_, 437-438 Hoar, Judge, 402 Hobbes, Thomas, 78 Hoffman, Charles Fenno, 163 ----, Josiah Ogden, 206 ----, Matilda, 206 Holmes, Abiel, 454 ----, Oliver Wendell, 260, 319, 320, 451-459, 460 _Home as Found_, 141, 229, 230, 233 _Homeward Bound_, 233 Hone, Philip, 245 _Hopes and Fears for Art_, 407 Hopkins, Samuel, 329, 340, 373, 375-376 Hopkinson, Francis, 186 Horace, 453 _Horace Greeley_, 254 n _Horace Greeley and the Working-Class Origins of the Republican Party_, 250, 252, 253, 254 _Horseshoe Robinson_, 41, 51, 53 _Horse Swap, The_, 172 _House of the Seven Gables, The_, 446 Howells, William Dean, 466 Huger, Alfred, 103 Hughes, Thomas, 469 Hume, David, 385 Hunt, Gaillard, 71, 72 n, 80 Hutchinson, Governor Thomas, 276 _Ichabod_, 315 _Illinois Monthly Magazine, The_, 164 _Independent in Politics, The_, 471 n, 469 _Industrial Worker, The_, 141 _Inquiry into the Nature of the Constitution of the United States, An_, 299 _Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States, An_, 15 _Inquiry into the Principles and Tendencies of Certain Public Measures, An_, 15 _Introductory Remarks_, 326, 333-334, 336 _Introduction to the Old Testament_, 417 _Invention of Letters, The_, 291 Irving, Pierre M., 205 ----, Washington, 29, 47, 49, 50, 51, 54, 172, 183, 195, 200, 203-212, 213, 218, 238, 471 ----, William, 213 Jackson, Andrew, 4, 8, 26, 29, 34, 36, 37, 55, 63, 90, 122, 139, 145-152, 154, 156, 173, 174, 175, 176, 178, 198, 207, 241, 242, 243, 249, 298, 309, 353 ----, Stonewall, 65, 70 Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich, 345, 382 _Jacobiniad, The_, 294 _James Russell Lowell_, 465 _James Russell Lowell and his Friends_, 462 n _Java Head_, 445 Jay, John, 196, 198, 224, 225, 227 Jefferson, Thomas, 4, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 21, 22, 26, 33, 38, 61, 62, 66, 69, 70, 71, 77, 84, 88, 89, 90, 111, 119, 120, 142, 146, 148, 150, 151, 153, 158, 159, 206, 228, 239, 240, 241, 243, 251, 252, 272, 277, 278, 284, 287, 288, 300, 301, 302, 335, 366, 383, 390, 394, 396, 421, 430, 462, 468, 473 _Jefferson Davis, A Memoir by his Wife_, 146 _Jeffersonian Democracy in New England_, 255 n Jeremiah, 282 _Jeremy Bentham and the Utilitarians_, 116 _John Bull in America_, 214 _John G. Whittier_, 367 _John Greenleaf Whittier_, 351 Johnson, Andrew, 468 ----, Dr. Samuel, 35, 109 _Jonathan Wild_, 128 _Journal_ (Thoreau), 411 n _Journals_ (Emerson), 317, 344, 349, 386, 387, 391, 392, 393 n, 395, 398, 399, 409 _Justice and Expediency_, 362, 377 Juvenal, 453 Kane, Elisha Kent, 50 Kant, Emmanuel, 343, 382, 430 _Katherine Walton_, 128 n Keats, John, 111, 453 Kennedy, John Pendleton, ii, 28, 37, 41, 46-56, 160, 172, 177, 203, 377 ----, William Sloane, 367 Kent, Chancellor James, 117, 196, 197-199 ----, William, 198 _Kentuckian in New York, The_, 41, 45, 46, 377 King, Charles, 245 ----, Rufus, 196 Kirkland, President, 280, 281, 284-285 Kirkpatrick, John Ervin, 140, 141 Kneeland, Abner, 463, 469 “Knickerbocker” _History_, 212 _Knickerbocker Magazine, The_, 46, 163 _Knights of the Horse-Shoe, The_, 45 Knox, General, 291 _Koningsmarke_, 216, 218, 219 Lamar, L. Q. C., 62 ----, President, 170 _Landing at Plymouth, The_, 3 n Landor, Walter Savage, 389 _Last Days of John Brown, The_, 412 _Last Leaf, The_, 260 _Last of the Mohicans, The_, 235 _Law of God and the Statutes of Men, The_, 421 n _Leaves of Grass_, 466 _Leaves from Margaret Smith’s Journal of Massachusetts Bay_, 363 _Leben Jesu_, 417 _Lectures on Constitutional Law_, 299 Lee, General Robert E., 29, 65 Legaré, Hugh Swinton, ii, 96, 103, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114-124, 168, 169, 438 _Legends of the West_, 164 Leggett, William, 200, 208, 243, 244, 245 Leonard, Daniel, 276 _Letter to A. C. Henry_ (Lincoln), 155 _Letter to the Members of the Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society of Boston_, 417 n, 418, 419, 420 _Letters of James Russell Lowell_, 437 n, 461, 462 n, 463, 466, 467, 469, 470, 471 _Letter of Mr. Paul Ambrose on the Great Rebellion in the United States_, 56 _Letters from the South_, 198, 216 n, 217 _Letters on Slavery_, 102 Lewis, Matthew Gregory (“Monk”), 220 _Liberator, The_, 341, 353, 359 _Life and Adventures of Arthur Clenning, The_, 163 _Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker, The_, 347-348, 414, 417 n _Life and Letters of Joseph Story, The_, 301 _Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes, The_, 453 _Life and Letters of Washington Irving, The_, 205, 206, 207, 209, 210 _Life of Andrew Jackson_, 148, 149 _Life of William Lloyd Garrison_, 256 n, 332 n, 342 n, 344, 344 n, 353-354, 356, 358, 359-360, 365, 368 _Life of James Louis Petigru_, 103, 104, 111 _Life of John P. Kennedy_, 48 _Life of John Marshall_, 22, 24 _Life of Martin Van Buren_, 173, 174, 176, 177 _Life of Milton_, 466 _Life of Henry David Thoreau_, 314 _Life of Washington_, 211 _Life of Whitman_, 367 _Life Without and Life Within_, 430 n, 431 _Literary History of America, A_, 416 n, 427 Lieber, Francis, 93-98 Lincoln, Abraham, 4, 66, 152-160, 242, 420 n, 422, 473 _Literary History of Philadelphia_, 185 _Literature of the Middle Western Frontier, The_, 164 Livingston, Chancellor, 227 Locke, John, 197, 198, 199, 228, 282, 287, 305, 380, 381, 382, 420 Longfellow, Henry W., 319, 320, 439-441, 453, 465 Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, 51, 162, 166-172, 176, 178 _Lord Byron’s Character and Writings_, 116 Loring, Commissioner Edward G., 360, 368, 411, 423 _Lost Occasion, The_, 367 Lovejoy, Elijah P., 246, 333 Lowell, Rev. Charles, 402, 463 ----, Francis Cabot, 462 ----, James Russell, 266, 314, 315, 351, 368, 436, 440, 460-472, 474 ----, John, 461, 462 _Lucius Junius Brutus_, 284, 285 Lundy, Benjamin, 353 _Lyrical and other Poems_, 114 McDuffie, Governor George, 62, 81, 136, 168, 170 Madison, James, 6, 71, 196, 288, 305 _Magnalia Christi Americana_, 371 _Man the Reformer_, 396, 397 Mann, Horace, 399 _Manual of American Literature, A_, 438 n Marcy, Governor William M., 244 _Mardi_, 260, 261, 262, 263 _Margaret Fuller, A Psychological Biography_, 427 n, 432 Marshall, John, 8, 20-27, 47, 94, 138, 197, 245, 300, 301, 302, 316, 473 _Martin Chuzzlewit_, 141 Martineau, Harriet, 351 Marx, Karl, 251, 467 Mason, Col. George, 277 _Massachusetts to Virginia_, 368 Masson, David, 466 Mather, Cotton, 202, 371, 391, 414, 428, 447 May, Samuel J., 351 Mayhew, Jonathan, 325, 326, 462 Mazzini, 428, 433 _Mellichampe_, 129 Melvill, Sir Richard, 260 Melville, Allan, 260, 261 ----, Herman, ii, 58, 131, 183, 238, 258-267, 445, 449 ----, Major Thomas, 260 _Memoirs and Letters of James Kent_, 198 _Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli_, 429, 430, 431, 434 _Menander to Philenia_, 288 Merriam, Charles A., 72 n, 94, 334 n Metternich, Prince, 94 _Militia Company Drill, The_, 72 Mill, James, 428 ----, John Stuart, 104, 472 Milton, John, 109, 366 _Minister’s Wooing, The_, 374 _Minutes and Debates of the Constitutional Convention_, 72 Mirabeau, Marquis de, 10, 293 _Moby Dick_, 131, 261, 262, 263 Modestinus, 117 _Monikins, The_, 227, 228, 229 Monroe, James, 71 Montesquieu, Charles, 73, 75, 76, 94, 306, 392, 393 Moore, Tom, 30, 111, 114, 185, 187, 200 _Moral Bully, The_, 453, 454 Morison, S. E., 341 n Morley, John, 472 Morris, Gouverneur, 194, 196, 230, 280 ----, Robert, 8, 21, 183, 195 ----, William, 396, 406, 407, 408, 472 Morse, Jedidiah, 321 ----, John T., 453 ----, S. F. B., 50 Morton, Mrs. Sarah Wentworth, 288 Motley, John Lothrop, 83, 438 Mott, Lucretia, 35, 428 Napoleon, 240 _Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee_, 172, 174, 175 _Narrative of the Surprizing Works of God_, 445 Nathan, James, 428 _Nation, The_, 468, 470 _National Philanthropist, The_, 342 _Nature_, 390, 447 _Nature and Progress of Liberty_, 291 _Nebraska Question, The_, 420, 421-422, 424 Nemours, Du Pont de, 3, 10, 243 Nevins, Allan, 102 n, 242 n, 244, 245 _New England Chattels_, 102 _New Views of the Constitution of the United States_, 299 _New York Herald, The_, 102 n, 356-357 _Nick of the Woods, or the Jibbenainosay_, 135, 191, 192, 235 Niebuhr, Barthold Georg, 94 Nightingale, Florence, 107 _North American Review, The_, 111, 442 Norton, Andrews, 329, 454 ----, Charles Eliot, 441, 460, 465, 470 Novalis, 430 Noyes, John Humphrey, 343-346, 355, 359 Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson, 185 _Oceana, The_, 306, 307 _Old Cambridge_, 341 n _Old-Town Folks_, 372, 373, 374 _One-Hoss Shay, The_, 453, 454 _Orations and Addresses_, 201 _Origin of Species, The_, 419 _Origin, History and Influence of Roman Legislation, The_, 116 _Ossian_, 31, 111, 186 Ossoli, Count, 428 Otis, Harrison Gray, 279, 353 ----, James, 325 Owen, Robert, 30, 242, 349 Page, J. W., 102 ----, Thomas Nelson, 28 Paine, Robert Treat, 113, 279, 288-295, 317, 329, 436, 452 ----, Thomas, 11, 12, 22, 88, 96, 284, 288, 342, 356, 366 Papinian, 117 Parker, Theodore, 108, 115, 124, 171, 256, 297 n, 300, 311, 314, 315, 316 n, 319, 327, 329, 338, 342, 347, 351, 373, 398, 399, 414-425, 426, 430, 433, 439, 455, 456, 458 Parkinson, Richard, 215 Parkman, Francis, 438-439, 458 _Parson Turell’s Legacy_, 453 _Partisan, The_, 53, 134 _Partisan Leader, The_, 35, 36, 37 Pascal, 264 _Patrician and Plebeian in Virginia_, 7, 8 _Patrick Henry, Sketches of the Life and Character of_, 31-33 Paulding, James Kirke, 162, 163, 183, 190, 198, 200, 207, 212-221, 238 Peabody, Elizabeth, 443 ----, Sophia, 443, 449 Peaslee, Mary, 364 Pendleton, L. B., 83, 86, 87, 91 ----, Nancy, 47 _Perfectionist, The_, 343 Perry, Commodore, 50 Petigru, James Louis, 103, 110, 123, 168 Phillips, Wendell, 108, 256, 314, 333, 351, 420, 436, 458 _Phocion_, 287 Pickering, Timothy, 187, 296 Pierpont, John, 365 _Pierre, or the Ambiguities_, 261, 263, 264 Pike, Albert, 162 _Pilgrim’s Progress_, 129 Pinckney, General Charles Cotesworth, 110 Pindar, 402 _Pioneer, The_, 464 n _Pioneers, The_, 216, 220, 224 Pitt, William, 170, 282 Plato, 252, 259, 264, 318, 381, 427 _Plea for Captain John Brown, A_, 413 Poe, Edgar Allan, 57-59, 127 _Poet of the Breakfast Table, The_, 455, 457, 458 _Poganuc People_, 372, 374 _Political Ethics_, 95