(Ebook) Henry Adams in Washington: Linking the Personal and Public Lives of America’s Man of Letters by Ormond Seavey ISBN 9780813944630, 0813944635

(Ebook) Henry Adams in Washington: Linking the Personal and Public Lives of America’s Man of Letters by Ormond Seavey ISBN 9780813944630, 0813944635

“This is a study of the writings of Henry Adams during the period between 1877 and 1891, a period when he lived and wrote in Washington, D.C. It will be my contention that Adams deserves a place with the major American writers of the nineteenth century, with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Her- man Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, and Henry James. His position among those writers explains why they appear as his context in a variety of places along the way. Adams has been acknowledged as an interesting peripheral figure in American literature, one who wrote a few texts of note, but not as someone at the center of that whole field. He belongs, though, in the midst of the noteworthy American writers.”