Title The Erie Canal reader, 1790-1950 / edited, with an introduction, by Roger W. Hecht

Edition 1st ed Published Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 169 pages) : illustrations Contents 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-169) Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject American literature -- New York (State) -- Erie Canal Region HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature Travel SUBJECT Erie Canal (N.Y.) -- Literary collections Erie Canal (N.Y.) -- Description and travel Erie Canal Region (N.Y.) -- Literary collections Erie Canal Region (N.Y.) -- Description and travel Subject New York (State) -- Erie Canal New York (State) -- Erie Canal Region Genre/Form Literary collections Form Electronic book Author Hecht, Roger W. ISBN 9780815607618 081560761X

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