American Prose 1607-1865 is a book written by Walter Cochrane Bronson and published in 1916. The book is a comprehensive survey of American prose literature from the colonial period to the end of the Civil War. Bronson divides the book into four main sections: the colonial period, the revolutionary period, the period of national expansion, and the period of the Civil War. In each section, Bronson provides a detailed analysis of the major writers and...