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

by John J. Burke

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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 Thackeray; Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain); Henry David Thoreau; Emily Dickinson; Walt Whitman; William Dean Howells; Oscar Wilde; Edith Wharton; Theodore Dreiser; William Carlos Williams; Henry James.
  • ISBN10 081919591X
  • ISBN13 9780819195913
  • Publish Date 28 May 1995 (first published 21 March 1995)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University Press of America
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 108
  • Language English