
America's Coming-of-Age
A Writing, Essays, Nonfiction book. American literature was hurting, the young critic Van Wyck Brooks...
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American literature was hurting, the young critic Van Wyck Brooks wrote in the three essays gathered here (published in 1915, 1918, and 1927). We had some natural talent - Whitman, for example - but there were not enough nutrients in the literary soil for American writers to truly thrive. The reasons were several: America celebrated... As an analysis of the damage wrought upon American culture (literature) by our lack of inter-class cohesion, and just generally centrifugal society, the book is excellent, and is in some ways striking confirmation of the model I've been working with.That said, it's preposterous the way he blames Puritanism for our highbrow/lowbrow split....