Vernon Louis Parrington
Vernon Louis Parrington wrote Main Currents in American Thought, the first comprehensive liberal interpretation of American literary and intellectual history. His unfinished three-volume work won the Pulitzer Prize and defined a generation of American literary scholarship.
Works
- Main Currents in American ThoughtComprehensive intellectual history of American thought from colonial era through early twentieth century
- The Colonial MindExamination of philosophical and cultural currents during colonial American period
- The Romantic Revolution in AmericaHistorical analysis of Romantic movement's influence on American thought and literature
- The Beginnings of Critical RealismStudy of transition to critical realism in American intellectual and cultural history