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	Author	D.H. Lawrence
	Country	United States
	Language	English
	Subject	American literature
	Publisher	Thomas Seltzer
	Publication date
	1923
	Media type	Print
	Pages	264


Studies in Classic American Literature is a work of literary criticism by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. It was first published by Thomas Seltzer in the United States in August 1923. The British edition was published in June 1924 by Martin Secker.

The authors discussed include Benjamin Franklin, Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman.


Contents


	1 Reception
	2 Standard editions
	3 References
	4 External links





Reception[edit]

Edmund Wilson described Studies in Classic American Literature as "one of the few first-rate books that have ever been written on the subject" despite "shots that do not hit the mark and moments that are quite hysterical."[1] The critic Harold Bloom listed Studies in Classic American Literature in his The Western Canon (1994) as one of the books that have been important and influential in Western culture.[2] Lawrence's work is generally credited with contributing to the restoration of Herman Melville as a seminal figure in American literature.[3]


Standard editions[edit]

	Studies in Classic American Literature (1923), edited by Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey and John Worthen, Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-521-55016-5


References[edit]


	^ 
Wilson, Edmund (1955). The Shock of Recognition (2nd ed.). New York: Grosset & Dunlap. p. 906. OCLC 237130542. Retrieved 25 November 2020.

	^ 
Bloom, Harold (1994). The Western Canon. Riverhead Books. p. 522.

	^ 
Marovitz, Sanford (2007). "The Melville Revival".  In Kelley, Wyn (ed.). A Companion to Herman Melville. Blackwell. p. 520. ISBN 9780470996782. OCLC 699013659.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)





External links[edit]

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	Studies in Classic American Literature from American Studies at the University of Virginia.


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D. H. Lawrence

	Novels	
	The White Peacock (1911)
	The Trespasser (1912)
	Sons and Lovers (1913)
	The Rainbow (1915)
	Women in Love (1920)
	The Lost Girl (1920)
	Aaron's Rod (1922)
	Kangaroo (1923)
	The Boy in the Bush (1924)
	The Plumed Serpent (1926)
	John Thomas and Lady Jane (1927)
	Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)
	The Escaped Cock (1929)
	Mr Noon (unfinished)




	Short stories
and novellas	
	"Odour of Chrysanthemums" (1911)
	The Fox (1923)
	The Captain's Doll (1923)
	The Ladybird (1923)
	St Mawr (1925)
	The Princess (1925)
	"The Rocking-Horse Winner" (1926)
	"The Woman who Rode Away" (1928)
	The Virgin and the Gipsy (1930)




	Short story
collections	
	The Prussian Officer and Other Stories (1914)
	England, My England and Other Stories (1922)




	Plays	
	The Daughter-in-Law (1913)
	The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd (1914)




	Poetry	
	Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923)




	Travel books	
	Sea and Sardinia (1921)
	Mornings in Mexico (1927)
	Sketches of Etruscan Places and other Italian essays (1932)




	Non-fiction books
and pamphlets	
	Movements in European History (1921)
	Studies in Classic American Literature (1923)




	Compendiums	
	The Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D. H. Lawrence
	Penguin Lawrence Edition




	Related	
	D. H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum
	D. H. Lawrence Ranch
	D. H. Lawrence Heritage Centre
	Frieda Lawrence (wife)
	Priest of Love (1981/1985 film)
	R v Penguin Books Ltd
	The Chatterley Affair


	Films based on works
	D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study







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