Vernon Louis Parrington

The Beginnings of Critical Realism

Study of transition to critical realism in American intellectual and cultural history

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Vernon Louis Parrington
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.

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