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قراءة كتاب Contemporary American Literature Bibliographies and Study Outlines
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Contemporary American Literature Bibliographies and Study Outlines
Transcriber’s Note
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CONTEMPORARY
AMERICAN LITERATURE
BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND STUDY OUTLINES
BY
JOHN MATTHEWS MANLY
AND
EDITH RICKERT
NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC.
Printed in the U. S. A.
CONTENTS
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
This book is intended as a companion volume to Contemporary British Literature; but the differences between conditions in America and in England have made it necessary to alter somewhat the original plan.
In America today we have a few excellent writers who challenge comparison with the best of present-day England. We have many more who have been widely successful in the business of making novels, poems, plays, which cannot rank as literature at all. In choosing from such a large number a list for study, it is our hope that we have not omitted the name of any author who counts as a force in our developing literature; but, on the other hand, it is undoubtedly true that we have excluded many writers whose work compares favorably with that of some on the list. Our choice has been governed by two principles: (1) To include experimental work—work dealing with fresh materials or attempting new methods—rather than better work on