The spirit of place.--Benjamin Franklin.--Hector St. John de Craevecoeur.--Fenimore Cooper's white novels.-- Fenimore Cooper's leatherstocking novels.--Edgar Allan Poe.--Nathaniel Hawthorne and The scarlet letter.-- Hawthorne's Blithedale romance.--Dana's Two years before the mast.--Herman Melville's Typee and Omoo.--Herman Melville's Moby Dick.--Whitman.