Roy Harvey Pearce

The Continuity of American Poetry

First published in 1953, revised in 1964, and presented here with a new foreword by Arnold Krupat and new postscript by the author, Roy Harvey Pearce's Savagism and Civilization is a classic in the genre of history of ideas. Examining the political pamphlets, missionaries' reports, anthropologists' accounts, and the drama, poetry, and novels of the 18th and early 19th centuries, Professor Pearce traces the conflict between the idea of the noble savage and the will to Christianize the heathen and appropriate their land, which ended with the near extermination of Native American culure.

A Study of the Indian and the American Mind

Savagism and Civilization

William Matthews

American Diaries

Louis J. Budd

Tom Quirk

John C. Gerber

Nancy A. Walker

Jay Martin

Millicent Bell

Stanley Brodwin

George C. Carrington (Jr.)

James Melville Cox

Victor Doyno

Allison R. Ensor

Stephen Gilman

Jan B. Gordon

Hamlin Lewis Hill

William E. Lenz

Fritz Oehlschlaeger

Robert Regan

David R. Sewell

Robert Shulman

Eric Solomon

Jeffrey Steinbrink

Twenty-five essays written by a group of scholars which reassesses the status of Twain's Huckleberry Finn in American literature and in contemporary American culture, reevaluating past scholarship and exploring new directions. A biography of the book's first hundred years (in 1985).

The Boy, His Book, and American Culture : Centennial Essays

One Hundred Years of Huckleberry Finn

Roy Harvey Pearce

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