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| | §3. Theodore Winthrop. XI. The Later Novel: Howells. Vol. 17. Later National Literature, Part II. The Cambridge ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | Less close to Cooper was another novelist who fought in the Civil War, and gave his life in one of the earliest battles, Theodore Winthrop (182861). |
 | | Of a stock as eminent in New England and New York as Cookes in Virginia, Winthrop had a more cosmopolitan upbringing than Cooke: after Yale he travelled in Europe, in the American tropics, in California while the gold fever was still new, and in the North-west. |
 | | 4 Time might, it is urged, have made Winthrop the legitimate successor of Hawthorne, but in fact he progressed little beyond the qualities of Brockden Brown, whom he considerably resembles in his strenuous nativism, his melodramatic plots, his abnormal characters, his command over the mysterious, and his breathless style. |
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