From Home and Abroad: American and British Writers in Philadelphia 1800-1910

by John J. Burke

Book Overview

This book is a detailed account of the visits of twenty-one famous writers four British and seventeen American who visited Philadelphia. Burke focuses on the literary history of Philadelphia. Contents: Preface; Passing Through; Thomas Moore; Washington Irving; Ralph Waldo Emerson; (Amos) Bronson Alcott; James Fenimore Cooper; Edgar Allan Poe; John Greenleaf Whittier; Charles Dickens; James Russell Lowell; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; William Makepeace...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819195928
• ISBN13: 9780819195920
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 8.8"