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The Erie Canal reader, 1790-1950
- Title
- The Erie Canal reader, 1790-1950 / edited, with an introduction, by Roger W. Hecht.
- Publication
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2003.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Hecht, Roger W.
- Description
- xii, 169 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- Poems, essays, travelogues, and fiction by major British and American authors portray the colorful life, landscape, and economic function of the Erie Canal. The 16 contributions range from a popular song "The Raging Canal," to an excerpt from Melville's "Moby-Dick," combine to form a celebration and social observation of the men and women who worked the waters of the canal from its heyday to its present decline into disuse. Hecht teaches writing at Ithaca College and is the author of Lunch at the Table of Opposites, a volume of poetry. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
- Subjects
- American literature
- Littérature
- Literature
- Literary collections
- New York (State) > Erie Canal Region
- New York (State) > Erie Canal
- Erie Canal (N.Y.) > Descriptions et voyages
- Erie Canal (N.Y.) > Anthologies
- Erie Canal Region (N.Y.) > Description and travel
- Erie Canal Region (N.Y.) > Literary collections
- Erie Canal (N.Y.) > Description and travel
- Erie Canal (N.Y.) > Literary collections
- Travel
- American literature > New York (State) > Erie Canal Region
- Genre/Form
- Literature
- Literary collections
- Literature.
- Littérature.
- Note
- Includes travel accounts, poems, short stories, and novel excerpts.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-169).
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0815607598
- 9780815607595
- LCCN
- 2002151209
- OCLC
- ocm50755093
- 50755093
- SCSB-8407533
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library