The Erie Canal reader, 1790-1950 /
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Vydáno: |
Syracuse, N.Y. :
Syracuse University Press,
2003.
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| Vydání: | 1st ed. |
| On-line přístup: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1293752 |
Obsah:
- Introduction : Authoring the Erie
- [Selections from]
- "The Great Western canal" / Philip Freneau
- "Celebration of the grand canal" / Rev. Charles Giles
- Travels in North America / Basil Hall
- Men and manners in America / Thomas Hamilton
- Domestic manners of the Americans / Frances Trollope
- Retrospect of Western travel / Harriet Martineau
- "The Canal boat" / Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The poetry of travelling in the United States / Caroline Gilman
- "The canal boat" / Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Moby-Dick / Herman Melville
- "The aged pilot man" / Samuel L. Clemens
- "The raging canal" ; popular song
- Their wedding journey / W.D. Howells
- David Harum / Edward Noyes Wescott
- Erie water / Walter D. Edmonds
- "Canal bride"/ Samuel Hopkins Adams.