By Roger Hecht
The Erie Canal Readerpoems, essays, travelogues, and fiction by means of significant American and British writerscaptures the colourful panorama and lifestyles alongside the Erie Canal from its delivery within the manhattan frontier, via its heyday as a passage of tradition and trade, to its current decline into disuse.
Part party of the lads and girls who labored its waters and half social statement, those writings by way of such figures as Basil corridor, Frances Trollope, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, and others offer first-hand observations of the canal kingdom and its function within the evolution of yankee social and financial tradition from frontier to business prominence. as well as depictions of canal lifestyles, the items supply glimpses of early vacationer inns, like Trenton Falls, and observations of non secular experiments that made New York's "burned over district" a hotbed of social and political reform. additionally incorporated are works by means of the main well known Erie Canal writers, Walter D. Edmonds and Samuel Hopkins Adams, whose tales and novels deliver a latest sensibility and perception to their reflections at the canal.
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