Van Wyck Brooks
Van Wyck Brooks was a foundational American literary historian and critic whose multivolume Makers and Finders series chronicled American literary culture from the Revolution to the Civil War. America's Coming-of-Age was his manifesto.
Works
- America's Coming-of-AgeEssays analyzing the cultural and intellectual development of American civilization
- The Ordeal of Mark TwainLiterary biography examining tensions in Mark Twain's life between commercial success and artistic integrity
- The Pilgrimage of Henry JamesBiographical study of novelist Henry James and his complex relationship with American literary tradition
- Makers and FindersHistorical survey of American literature and the writers who shaped the nation's cultural identity
- The Writer in AmericaEssays on the role and condition of American writers in contemporary cultural landscape