The Popular Book: A History of America's Literary TasteThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1950. |
Contents
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The Age of Reason | 22 |
Common Sense | 39 |
The Power of Sympathy | 51 |
The Ancient Regime | 67 |
Home Influence | 85 |
The Gates Ajar | 106 |
The Spirit of Poetry | 125 |
When Knighthood Was in Flower | 180 |
Their Yesterdays | 201 |
The Plastic Age | 224 |
Little Man What Now | 246 |
Postscript How to Win Friends and Influence People | 283 |
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CHECKLIST | 289 |
CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX | 301 |
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