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Taking sharp exception with Van Wyck Brooks, V. L. Parrington and the New Deal critics led by Henry Steel Commager, the author contends, contrary to these critics, that early twentieth century novelists did pay homage to the myth often in spite of themselves...
...history. Brooks croons over Emerson for pages, but is singularly vague in defining his philosophy of transcendentalism. He refers to Dreiser's concern over the relation between morals and success, but does not say what that relation was. Nowhere does he approach the lucidity and incisiveness of Vernon Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought...
...Parrington's "Main Currents in American Thought...
...defense table, William Remington put down the book he had been reading -Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought. In the jury box, the foreman, Hotel Clerk David L. Jones, rose to his feet. "We find the defendant guilty as charged," he said in a husky voice. Remington closed his book, shut his eyes, and got to his feet with an effort. Two U.S. marshals stepped to his side. Federal Judge Gregory F. Noonan told the jury: "I believe the verdict you have arrived at is a fair...
...mold, most of them read as if written by one man: a learned but conventional professor. (One happy exception: the chapter on "American Language," in which the gay, strong hand of H. L. Mencken quickly shows itself.) What a reader misses here is what he finds in Vernon Louis Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought: one mind in command of a subject, sometimes pulling a boner but more often arousing excitement and curiosity, and always leaving on the reader the sharp stamp of an individual point of view...