Chapter 5: Late Nineteenth Century: Henry Adams (1838-1918)

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The Life of Albert Gallatin, 1879; Democracy: An American Novel, 1880 (anonymous); John Randolph, 1882; Esther: A Novel, 1884 (as Frances Snow Compton); History of the USA During the Administration of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1884-91; Historical Essays, 1891; Mont-Saint Michel and Chartres, 1904 (anonymous); The Education of Henry Adams, 1907 (Hypertext) (Project Gutenberg E-Text).

John Randolph. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1910. E176 .A5 v.16

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres. With an introduction by Ralph Adams Cram. Boston and NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. DC20 .A2

A cycle of Adams letters, 1861-1865. ed. by Worthington Chauncey Ford. Boston, NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1920. E601 .F72. Library Has: v.1-v.2

Letters to a niece and Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres. with A niece's memories by Mabel La Farge. Boston and NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1920. E175.5 .A1744

The degradation of the democratic dogma. with an introduction by Brooks Adams. NY: Macmillan, 1920. D16.8 .A2

The education of Henry Adams; an autobiography. NY: Book League of America, 1928. E175.5 .A173

The tendency of history. NY: The Book League of America, 1929, 1928. D16.8 .A4

Letters of Henry Adams. edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930-38. E175.5 A1743. Library Has: v.1-2.

The education of Henry Adams. Introd. by James Truslow Adams. NY: Modern Library, 1946. E175.5 .A174276

Henry Adams and his friends; a collection of his unpublished letters. compiled, with a biographical introduction, by Harold Dean Cater. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1947. E175.5 .A17428

Democracy; an American novel. NY: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952? PS1004.A4 D4

Chapters of Erie. by Charles Francis Adams, Jr., and Henry Adams. Ithaca, NY: Great Seal Books, 1956. HE2791 .E688

A Henry Adams reader. edited and with an introd. by Elizabeth Stevenson. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958. PS1004 .A4A16

The great secession winter of 1860-61, and other essays. Edited and with an introd. by George Rochfield. NY: Sagamore P, 1958. E178.6 .A2

Writings. Edited by Henry Adams. NY: Antiquarian Press, 1960. E302 G16. Library Has: v.1-v.2-v.3

The education of Henry Adams, an autobiography. With a new introd. by D. W. Brogan. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961. E175.5 .A174275

History of the United States of America. NY: Antiquarian P, 1962. E302.1 .A23 1962. Library Has: v.1-v.9

Documents relating to New-England federalism, 1800-1815. NY: B. Franklin, 1965? JK2306 .A3

The education of Henry Adams. Edited with an introd. and notes by Ernest Samuels. Jayne N. Samuels, assistant editor. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973, 1918. E175.5 .A174276

The letters of Henry Adams. 6 vols. Ed. J.C. Levenson. Cambridge: Belknap P of Harvard U P, 1982-1988. E175.5 .A2 A4

The correspondence of Henry James and Henry Adams, 1877-1914. edited with an introduction by George Monteiro. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1992. PS2123 .A42

| Top | Selected Bibliography: Books

Chalfant, Edward. Both sides of the ocean: a biography of Henry Adams, his first life, 1838-1862. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1982. E175.5 .A2 C46

- - -. Better in darkness: a biography of Henry Adams: his second life, 1862-1891. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1994. E175.5 .A2 C45

Contosta, David R., and Robert Muccigrosso. eds. Henry Adams and his world. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1993. E175.5 .A2 H45

Contosta, David R. Henry Adams and the American experiment. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980. E175.5.A2

Decker, William M. The Literary Vocation of Henry Adams. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1990.

Donovan, Timothy P. Henry Adams and Brooks Adams; the education of two American historians. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1961. E175.5 .A1748

Dusinberre, William. Henry Adams, the myth of failure. Charlottesville: U P of Virginia, 1980. E175.5.A2 D84

Harbert, Earl N. Henry Adams: a reference guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978. Z8015.3 .A21

Hochfield, George. Henry Adams, an introduction and interpretation. NY: Barnes & Noble 1962. E175.5 .A1749

Hume, Robert A. Runaway star: an appreciation of Henry Adams. Ithaca, NY: Cornell U P, 1951. E175.5 .A175

Kaledin, Eugenia. The education of Mrs. Henry Adams. Philadelphia: Temple U P, 1981. CT275 .A34 K34

Lyon, Melvin. Symbol and idea in Henry Adams. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P 1970. E175.5 .A1767

Monteiro, George. ed. The Correspondence of Henry James and Henry Adams, 1877-1914. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1992.

Nagel, Paul C. Descent from Glory: Four Generations of the John Adams Family. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1983.

Samuels, Ernest. The young Henry Adams. Cambridge, Harvard Univ. P, 1948. E175.5 .A178

- - -. Henry Adams, the middle years. Cambridge: Balknap P of Harvard U P, 1958. E175.5 .A1777

- - -. Henry Adams; the major phase. Cambridge: Belknap P of Harvard U P, 1964. E175.5 .A1776

- - -. Henry Adams: Selected Letters. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1992.

Scheyer, Ernst. The circle of Henry Adams: art & artists. Detroit: Wayne State U P, 1970. N7483.A3 S3

Shepherd, Jack. The Adams chronicles: four generations of greatness. Boston: Little, Brown, 1975. E322.1 A28 S53 

| Top | Selected Bibliography: Articles

Accardi, Bernard. "Empiricism and the Epistemological Rhetoric of The Education of Henry Adams." Essays in Literature 23.2 (Fall 1996): 251-76.

Bergmann, Harriet F. "Henry Adams' Esther: No Faith in the Patriarchy." Markham Review 10 (Sumr 1981): 63-67.

Bove, Paul. "Policing Thought: On Learning How to Read Henry Adams." Critical Inquiry 23.4 (Sumr 1997): 939-46.

- - -. "Giving Thought to America: Intellect and The Education of Henry Adams." Critical Inquiry 23.1 (Autm 1996): 80-108.

Burich, Keith R. "Henry Adams' Annis Mirabilis: 1900 and the Making of a Modernist." American Studies 32.2 (Fall 1991): 103-16.

Cody, David C. "Henry Adams and the City of Brass." New England Quarterly 60.1 (Mar 1987): 89-91.

Comley, Nancy R. "Henry Adams' Feminine Fictions: The Economics of Maternity." American Literary Realism 22.1 (Fall 1989): 3-16.

Cox, James M. "Henry Adams and the Apocalyptic Never." American Literary History 3.1 (Sprg 1991): 136-52.

Donoghue, Denis. "Henry Adams' Novels." Nineteenth Century Literature 39.2 (Sep 1984): 186-201.

Lesser, Wayne. "Criticism, Literary History, and the Paradigm: The Education of Henry Adams." PMLA 97.3 (May 1982): 378-94.

Maine, Barry. "The Education of Henry Adams: 'Music for ourselves alone.'" New England Quarterly 61.3 (Sep 1988): 325-40.

Murphy, Brenda. "Fetishizing the Dynamo: Henry Adams and Eugene O'Neill." Eugene O'Neill Review 16.1 (Sprg 1992): 85-90.

Rowe, John C. ed. New Essays on The Education of Henry Adams. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.

Banta, Martha. "Being a 'Begonia' in a Man's World." 49-86.

Horwitz, Howard. "The Education and the Salvation of History." 115-56.

Rowe, John C. "Henry Adams's Education in the Age of Imperialism." 87-114.

Thomas, Brook. "The Education of an American Classic: The Survival of Failure." 23-47.

Sallee, Jonel C. "Henry Adams' Emersonian Education." ESQ 27.1 (1981); 38-46.

Scheiber, Andrew J. "The Widow and the Dynamo: Gender and Power in Henry Adams' Democracy." American Transcendental Quarterly 4.4 (Dec 1990); 353-69.

Sommer, Robert F. "The Feminine Perspectives of Henry Adams' Esther." Studies in American Fiction 18.2 (Autm 1990): 131-44.

Winner, Viola H. "The Paris Circle of Edith Wharton and Henry Adams." Edith Wharton Review 9.1 (Sprg 1992): 2-4, 16.

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