id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3334 View source for American literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 2142 213 71 You are currently unable to edit Wikipedia due to a block affecting your IP address. Adams | publisher = Published for the proprietors | location = New York, NY | year = 1823 | volume = 1 | url = https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001027688 | page = 59}} Neal was "the first in America to be natural in his diction"{{cite book | editor-last = Pattee | editor-first = Fred Lewis | last = Pattee | first = Fred Lewis | chapter = Introduction | title = American Writers: A Series of Papers Contributed to Blackwood's Magazine (1824-1825) | publisher = Duke University Press | location = Durham, North Carolina | year = 1937 | url = https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001026497 | page = 22}} and his work represents "the first deviation from...Irvingesque graciousness."Lease 1972, p. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3334.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3334.txt