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19th Century Americans Flashcards

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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr (1809-1894)

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“Old Ironsides” poem 1830, Breakfast Table series, also a medical doctor, son Jr was Chief Justice

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“Hope” is the thing with feathers, Wild Nights - Wild Nights!, I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed, Because I Could Not Stop For Death, I’m Nobody, Who Are You?, I Felt A Funeral In My Brain, Tell All the Truth, But Tell it Slant, Success is Counted Sweetest, A Bird Came Down The Walk

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), complete works published 1955

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Washington Irving (1783-1859)

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Rip Van Winkle (1819), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1920)

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Kate Chopin (1850-1904)

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The Awakening (1899), Louisiana writer

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820)

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Washington Irving (1783-1859)

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Self-Reliance (1841)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Transcendentalist

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

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complete works published 1955 - recluse of Amherst - “Hope” is the thing with feathers, Wild Nights - Wild Nights!, I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed, Because I Could Not Stop For Death, I’m Nobody, Who Are You?, I Felt A Funeral In My Brain, Tell All the Truth, But Tell it Slant, Success is Counted Sweetest, A Bird Came Down The Walk

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The Fireside Poets

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

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Paul Revere’s Ride (1860)

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

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Old Ironsides (poem, 1830)

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr (1809-1894)

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Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

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Little Women (1868) – then Little Men and Jo’s Boys

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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

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“Civil Disobedience” (1849), Walden (1854)

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Little Women (1868)

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Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

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The Scarlet Letter (1850)

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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

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“Civil Disobedience” (1849)

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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

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The Red Badge of Courage (1895)

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Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

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Leaves of Grass (1855), free verse, “Song of Myself,” “O Captain! My Captain!”, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”

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Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

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Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)

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(review poems, story summaries)

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

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Herman Melville (1819-1891)

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Moby Dick (1851) – Billy Budd (1924) - Britten opera

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

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The Fireside Poets

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The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

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Mark Twain (1835-1910)

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(Aventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer - Hannibal, Missouri), “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Pudd’nhead Wilson, travelogues The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, A Tramp Abroad

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The House of the Seven Gables (1851)

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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

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Self-Reliance (1841), Father of Transcendentalism

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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

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The Scarlet Letter (1850) – The House of the Seven Gables (1851)

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Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

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Leaves of Grass (1855), free verse, “Song of Myself,” “O Captain! My Captain!”, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”

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James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)

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The Last of the Mohicans (1826) – Natty Bumppo protagonist of Leatherstocking Tales, includin The Deerslayer, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, and The Prairie, Cooperstown, NY named for his father

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Rip Van Winkle (1819)

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Washington Irving (1783-1859)

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“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Pudd’nhead Wilson - travelogues - The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, A Tramp Abroad

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Mark Twain (1835-1910)

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Moby Dick (1851), Billy Budd (1924)

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Herman Melville (1819-1891)

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Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

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The Red Badge of Courage (1895)

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

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The Song of Hiawatha (1855), Paul Revere’s Ride (1960) – Evangeline (1847), first to translate The Divine Comedy

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The Awakening (1899)

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Kate Chopin (1850-1904), Louisiana writer

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Walden (1854)

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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)fhiawa

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The Last of the Mohicans (1826) - Natty Bumppo!

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James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)

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