Ideas in America

Frontmatter
PART I: The Need for Literary History
	1. AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP AND AMERICAN LITERATURE (page 1)
	2. DESIDERATA IN COLONIAL LITERARY HISTORY (page 12)
	3. AMERICAN LITERATURE AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR CULTURAL ANALYSIS (page 28)
PART II: Studies in the History of Ideas in America
	4. ORIGINS OF THE COLONIAL IDEA (page 45)
	5. AMERICAN PROSE STYLE: 1700-1770 (page 70)
	6. THE DRIFT TO LIBERALISM IN THE AMERICAN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (page 107)
	7. THE INFLUENCE OF EUROPEAN IDEAS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA (page 125)
	8. THE RENAISSANCE AND AMERICAN ORIGINS (page 140)
PART III: The Responsibilities of Contemporary American Literature
	9. THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR ONCE MORE (page 152)
	10. NOBILITY WANTED (page 168)
	11. AMERICAN LITERATURE AND THE MELTING POT (page 185)
	12. NEW ENGLAND DILEMMA (page 205)
	13. TRIBALISM (page 223)
NOTES (page 237)