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Studies in Classic American Literature

The staid academic title belies the freewheeling prose of D.H. Lawrence's essays, which are as contrarian, penetrating, and sometimes unpalatable as one might expect from the author. "America has never been easy, and is not easy to-day. Americans have always been at a certain tension." - Summary by Kazbek (7 hr 5 min)

Chapters

FOREWORD

4:58

THE SPIRIT OF PLACE

18:07

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

29:54

HECTOR ST. JOHN DE CRÈVECŒUR

26:46

FENIMORE COOPER'S WHITE NOVELS

27:16

FENIMORE COOPER'S LEATHERSTOCKING NOVELS

34:42

EDGAR ALLAN POE

41:02

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE AND "THE SCARLET LETTER"

54:56

HAWTHORNE'S "BLITHEDALE ROMANCE"

23:34

DANA'S "TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST"

40:35

HERMAN MELVILLE'S "TYPEE" AND "OMOO"

34:04

HERMAN MELVILLE'S "MOBY DICK"

47:53

WHITMAN

41:13