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PURITAN VS PILGRIM

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PURITAN. PILGRIMS
.John Winthorp. . William Bradford
. Massachusetts Bay Colony. . Plymouth, ( on the Mayflower)
. Non separatists . Separatists
.John Smith

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PURITANISM

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. EMERGED IN ENGLAND AROUND THE MIDDLE OF THE 1500S
. AIM: TO PURIFY THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND OF HIERARCHY, RITUAL, CHURCH ADORNMENT, REVERENCING IMAGES OF SAINTS, AND ORNATE CLERICAL VESTMENTS.
. THEY WERE HARSHLY PERSECUTED BY CHARLES I
. SEEKING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM THEY EMIGRATED TO NEW ENGLAND FROM 1620-1630.
. BASED ON THE THEOLOGY OF CALVINISM
. Did not want to separate from the Church of England, but sought religious freedom

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CALVINISM

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. THEOLOGY OF JOHN CALVIN THAT STATES THAT GOD IS A HARSH GOD AND MANKIND IS DEPRAVED FROM BIRTH BECAUSE OF ADAM’S FALL.
. MOST ARE DAMNED DESPITE THEIR BEST EFFORTS
. EDUCATION WAS A RELIGIOUS DUTY
. CALVINISTIC HARSHNESS WAS TEMPERED BY “COVENANT THEORY”: THE ONE GOD MADE WITH ABRAHAM

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JOHN SMITH

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. GENERALLY REGARDED AS THE EARLIEST WRITER OF AMERICAN LITERATURE.
.Early founder of Virgina Colony, Jamestown
. Pilgrim separatist

. “THE GENERAL HISTORIE OF VIRGINIA, NEW ENGLAND, AND THE SUMMER ISLES”

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WILLIAM BRADFORD

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Plymouth Pilgrim Separatist.
first Governor of Plymouth colony

“OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION”

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JOHN WINTHROP

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Massachusetts Bay Puritan

“THE HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND”
“A MODEL OF CHRISTAIN CHARITY”

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The first book published in the English colonies

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The bay psalm book

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Cotton Mather

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Leader of the Salem witch trials

“MAGNOLIA CHRISTI”

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Jonathan Edwards

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Is admiration for nature/ natural science influenced Emerson Hawthorne and Melville and Whitman
Puritan

” PERSONAL NARRATIVE” ( A spiritual autobiography)
“SINNERS IN HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD”

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Anne Bradstreet

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First published writer of the colonies
puritan

” AUTHOR TO HER BOOK OF POEMS
“TO MY DEAR HUSBAND” ( “If two were ever one then surely we…”)
“TENTH MUSE”

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PILGRIMS

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. Early European settlers of the Plymouth Colony
. Believed similarly as the Puritan Calvinists, except they insisted on being separate from the church of England
. First were in the holland and they form a colony in America: Jamestown, Virginia.

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MARY ROWLANDSON

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“THE NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTIVITY AND RESTORATION OF MARY ROWLANDSON”

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EDWARD TAYLOR

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wrote with conceits/metaphysical style
medical doctor and pastor

“PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS”
“HUSWIFERY” (‘…Make me, o Lord, thy spinning wheele complete…”)

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

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“The Way to Wealth”

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JOHN TRUMBULL

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“M’ FINGAL” (“ When yankis skill’d in martial rule…”)

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Phillis Wheatly

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.First important black writer

” ON BEING BROUGHT FROM AFRICA” (“twas mercy brought me from my pagan land…”)

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ROGER WILLIAMS

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a puritan who founded the colony of Rhode Island

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ALVAR NUNEZ CABEZA DE VACA

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“NAUFRAGIOS”- SHIPWRECKS

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SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN

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pioneer of the new france ( Canada)

“Des Sauvages”

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Thomas Harriot

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“BRIEF AND FREE REPORT OF THE NEW FOUNDLAND OF VIRGINIA

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SAMSON OCCON

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A Mohegan native American

“A SHORT NARRATIVE OF MY LIFE”

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THOMAS PAINE (Quaker)

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“COMMON SENSE”
“THE RIGHTS OF MAN”
“THE AGE OF REASON”
a pamphlet of the desire for the colonies to declare independence

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THE FEDERALIST PAPERS

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alexander hamilton
James madison
John Jay

” To the people of the state of New York”

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WASHINGTON IRVING

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The first of the romantic writers ( molding national literature)

RIP VAN WINKLE
LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
SALMAGUNDI ( the name GOTHAM for NYC is coined)
A HISTORY OF NEW YORK ( HIS ALIAS -KNICKERBOCKER)

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JAMES FENIMORE COOPER

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THE LEATHER STOCKINGS SERIES ( Natty Bumpp is the main character in each)
a) THE DEERSLAYER
b)

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THOMAS BANG THORPE

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.antebellum writer
THE BIG BEAR OF ARKANSAS ( character Jim Doggett)
THE MASTER’S HOUSE

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THE FIRESIDE POETS

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. aka Household poets/Schoolroom Poets

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

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Fireside poet

“Thanatopsis”

…Yet not to thine eternal resting-place
Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world—with kings, The powerful of the earth—the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past,
All in one mighty sepulchre

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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Fireside Poet

“Daily Trials By a Sensitive Man”

…Storms, thunders, waves!
Howl, crash, and bellow till ye get your fill; Ye sometimes rest; men never can be still But in their graves.

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John Greenleaf Whittier

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Fireside Poet

“Flowers in Winter”

How strange to greet, this frosty morn,
In graceful counterfeit of flower,
These children of the meadows, born
Of sunshine and of showers!

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Romanticism

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characteristics of Romanticism include supremacy of the individual, feeling, thought and solitude, affinity to nature and the country (reflection and non-urbanism) and personal expression and emotion over collectivism and reason.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Transcendentalist

.”The Divinity School Address”
.” Concord Hymn” ( “…The shot heard around the world”) ( commemorating the obelisk on an early American Revolution battle
.”Boston Hymn” ( Commemorated the emancipation proclamation)
“The Oversoul”
“Self Reliance”

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Transcendentalism

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• A movement within Romanticism spearheaded by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Influenced by Immanuel Kant (German) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English)
It was about how individuals should “move beyond” collective thought found in dogmas and doctrines and look within themselves for spirituality.
• The connection with the divine in nature, individual reflection and non-attachment are important. the divine in all things. trust the intuition above all
• Non-conformity, reliance on intuition, autonomy of individual spirit and the fomentation of creativity
The perils of collective reason and restrictions of institutional falsities

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transcendentalist

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Emerson
Thoreau,
Margaret Fuller
Bronson Alcott.

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Margaret Fuller

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editor of the Dial

Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)

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Henry David Thoreau

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Walden

Civil Disobedience

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“At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

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Walden, Thoreau

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“If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go…if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.”

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Civil Disobedience

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John Greenleaf Whittier

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Fireside Poet
a Quaker
anti-slavery

“Song of the Negro Boatman”
“Snow-Bound”
“The Eternal Goodness”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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the first American version of Dante’s The Divine Comedy.
The Song of Hiawatha (1855)
“Paul Revere’s Ride
Evangeline (1847)
The Courtship of Miles Slander
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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Twice- Told Tales
The Scarlet Letter
The House of Seven Gables (1851)
The Blithedale Romance
The Marble Faun
YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN
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SCARLET LETTER

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hester Prynne
Pearl
Roger Chillingworth
Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale
Governor Bellingham
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THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hepzibah Pyncheon 
Clifford Pyncheon
Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon
Holgrave
Matthew Maule
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Goodman Brown

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Goodman Brown 
FAITH
The Old Man/Devil 
Goody Cloyse 
The Minister
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Edgar Allan Poe

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“The Raven”
“The Cask of Amontillado” “The Tell-Tale Heart”
“The Fall of the House of Usher”
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
“The Black Cat”
“The Pit and the Pendulum”
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“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”

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Auguste Dupin
Madam L’espanage
Madam camille
Adolphe Le bon

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“The Cask of Amontillado”

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Fortunato

Montresor

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“The Fall of the House of Usher”

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Roderick

Madeleine

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Herman Melville

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“Typee” (Tommo)
Moby Dick ( Ahab, Ishmael, Pequod -the ship)
“Bartleby, the Scrivener” (“I would prefer not to”)

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Frederick Douglass

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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Walt Whitman

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Leaves of Grass
“A Song to Myself”
“We Two How long were we fooled”
“Captain !My Captain”

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Frances Ellen Watkins

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“Eliza Harris”

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Kate Chopin

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The Awakening

“Désirée’s Baby”

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Emily Dickinson

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Because I could not stop for Death

A Bird, came down the Walk

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Joseph Kirkland

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Zury: The Meanest Man in Spring County

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Rebecca Harding Davis

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Life in the Iron-Mills

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Horatio Alger, Jr.

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Ragged Dick

(Bildungsroman (German for a “coming of age novel”

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Mark Twain

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Tom Sawyer (1876)
Huckleberry Finn (1885)
The Jumpin Frog...County
The Gilded Age
The Prince and the Pauper
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Tom Sawyer (1876)

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Injun Joe
Joe Harper
Aunt Polly
Becky thatcher

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Huckleberry Finn (1885)

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Jim
Widow Douglas
Duke and Dauphin
Miss Watson
Pap
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The Jumpin Frog…Count

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Jim Smiley

Dan’l Webster( his jumping frog)

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The Gilded Age

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Lara Hawkins
Phillip sterling
Ruth Bolton
Colonel Sellers

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The Prince and the Pauper

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Tim Canty

Prince Edwards

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William Dean Howells

Realist

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“Editha”
The Rise of Silas Lapham
A Counterfeit Presentment

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A Counterfeit Presentment

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William Dean Howells

Constance
General Wyatt
Cummings
bartlett

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The Rise of Silas Lapham

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William Dean Howells

Silas
Penelope
Irene
Persis
Bromfield
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Ambrose Bierce

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The Devil's Dictionary
"The Death of Halpin Frayser”
"The Moonlit
"Chickamauga”
The occurence at owk creek (peyton farquhar)
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Henry James

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Daisy Miller
The Portrait of a Lady
The Turn of the Screw
The art of Fiction (the author should be absent from the work and be objective)

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Daisy Miller

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Henry James

Giovanelli
Eugenio
Mrs Costello
Roman fever

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The Turn of the Screw

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Henry James

Flora
Miles
Mrs Grosse
Peter Quint
Miss Jessell
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The art of Fiction

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Henry James

“A novel is in its broadest definition a personal impression of life…”

73
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Sarah Orne Jewett

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A Country of the Pointed Firs

“A White Heron”

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The Awakening

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Kate Chopin

Edna Pontellier
Leonce
Robert lebum
Adele Ratignolle
Alcee Arobin
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Booker T. Washington

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Up from Slavery Progress for both the African American and the White (communities requires cooperation in developing commercial and industrial opportunities.)
Tuskegee and Its People
The Story of the Negro (1909)

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Charles W. Chesnutt

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The Conjure Woman
The House Behind the Cedars
The Passing of Grandison” from The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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“The Yellow Wallpaper”

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Hamlin Garland

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Main- Travelled Roads (1891)
Prairie Folks (1892)
Middle Border in 1917

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Edith Wharton

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House of Mirth
The Age of Innocence
Ethan Frome

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W.E.B. Du Bois

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The Souls of Black Folk (A demand for politcal, civic, and educational equality)
The Crisis
double-consciousness

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

naturalist

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Merlin 
Tristam
“Richard Cory”
“The Mill”
“Haunted House”
 “Mr. Flood's Party”,
 “Maya”,
“Miniver Cheevy”
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Theodore Dreiser

naturalist

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Many of his novels take place in Chicago

Sister Carrie (1900
An American Tragedy
1925)

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Steven Crane

naturalist

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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893)
The Red Badge of Courage ( henry fleming, Jim Conklin, the tattered soldier, the lieutenant)
“Black Riders Came from the Sea”
The Open Boat (Nature, though seemingly hostile, is actually indifferent to human beings)
The Bridge comes to yellow sky ( sheriff jack potter, scratchy)

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Paul Lawrence Dunbar

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One of the first African- American writers to have a reputation abroad

In Dahomey (1903) (was the first African- American musical on Broadway.)
“The Debt”
“When Malindy Sings”

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Willa Cather

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She writes about the experience of people (women) in the American frontier

O Pioneers!
One of Ours
My Ántonia

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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893)

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Steven Crane ( a naturalist)

Jimmie
Mary
Pete
Nellie
Tommy
Mrs smith
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Jack London

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the call of the wild

White Fang

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Louisa May Alcott

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Little Women

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Susan Glaspell

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Trifles (1916)
Alison’s House
The Morning is Near Us (1939); 
Norma Ashe (1942); 
Judd Rankin's Daughter (1945).
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Eugene O’Neill

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Father of American drama”.

The Hairy Ape
Long Day’s Journey into Night (1940)(The Tyrone family: James, Edmunds, mary)
The Iceman Cometh (1946)

Beyond the Horizon (1920),
Strange Interlude (1928),
Ah! Wilderness (1933),

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Elmer Rice (1892 –1967)

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Street Scene (1929) 
The Adding Machine
Dream Girl (1945)
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Gertrude Stein

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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Brewsie and Willie
Tender Buttons: Objects, Food and Rooms

93
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Sherwood Anderson

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Dark Laughter

Winesburg, Ohio

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Katherine Anne Porter

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Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939);
The Leaning Tower and Other Stories (1944)
“The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”

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Zora Neale Hurston

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Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) (Janie Crawford)

Jonah’s Gourd Vine
Mules and Men (1935)

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Nella Larsen

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writer of the Harlem Renaissance

Quicksand (1928)
Passing (1929)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Great Gatsby (1925)
This Side of Paradise( Armory Blaine’s quest to find himself: Rosalind Connerge, Beatrice Blaine)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
Tender is the Night

98
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The Great Gatsby

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Nick Carraway
Daisy Buchanan
Tom
 Myrtle Wilson
Jay Gatsby
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William Faulkner

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known for his fictional county in Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha.

The Sound and the Fury (1929) ( Compson family: Jason, Caroline, Quetin)
Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
The Big Sleep ( about blackmail) (General Sherwood,Vivien, Carmen)

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Ernest Hemingway

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A Farewell to Arms (1929) (Frederic, an American soldier, and Catherine, a British nurse)

Green Hills of Africa

In Our Time

Men Without Women

The Sun Also Rises

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)( about the International Brigades.)(Robert Jordan, an American who is assigned to set dynamite under a bridge during an attack on Segovia.)

The Old Man and the Sea (Santiago, who fights with a giant marlin far off the coast of Florida.

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John Steinbeck

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East of Eden
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath (The joads)

102
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Richard Wright

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Native Son (Bigger Thomas)

103
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James Weldon Johnson

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of the Harlem Renaissance

“Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,”
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912/1927), God’s Trombones (1927)

104
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Robert Frost (1874-1963)

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“Mending Wall”
“Out, Out” (based on macbeth)
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.)

105
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Amy Lowell

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A Dome of Many- Coloured Glass (1912); 
Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds (1914);
 Men, women and Ghosts (1916); 
Pictures of the Floating World (1919); 
What’s O’Clock (1925)
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Carl Sandburg (chicago regionalist)

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“Washerwoman”

107
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Wallace Stevens

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Harmonium (1923)

"Anecdote of the Jar,”
 "The Emperor of Ice-Cream," 
"The Idea of Order at Key West," 
"Sunday Morning,
" "The Snow Man," and
 "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” 
“Of Modern Poetry”
108
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William Carlos Williams

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imagist

“The Red Wheelbarrow”
Paterson (1963)

Spring and All (1923),
The Desert Music and Other Poems (1954
This Is Just To
Say”

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Ezra Pound

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imagists/vorticism

The Cantos (1917–1969
“In a Station of the
Metro”
the river merchants wife

Ripostes (1912),
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920)

110
Q

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

A

imagists

Sea Garden
The Walls Do Not Fall (1944), 
Tribute to the Angels (1945) 
 The Flowering of the Rod (1946).
“Eurydice”
111
Q

Marianne Moore

A

“Poetry”

112
Q

T.S. Eliot

A

Founded the literary journal, Criterion

“The Wasteland” (April is the cruelest month…)
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” ( influenced by Dante)

“Tradition and the Individual Talent”
Murder in the Cathedral (1935),
The Family Reunion (1939)
Four Quartets (1943)

113
Q

Claude McKay

A

jamaican

Home to Harlem

“The Harlem Dancer”,
“If We Must Die”.
Here is “America”

114
Q

Edna St. Vincent Millay

A

wrote sonnets

“I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently”,
“I, Being Born Woman
Distressed”
“First Fig”

115
Q

e e cummings

A

“in Just-”,(“when the world is mud…)

Tulips and Chimneys in 1923, 
“Buffalo Bill’s”, 
“Since Feeling is First”, 
“l(a”,
 “i sing of Olaf glad and big”,
 “in Just-”,
 “may i feel said he”, 
“anyone lived in a pretty how town”, 
“i carry your heart with me”
116
Q

Jean Toomer

A 
Harlem Renaissance
Cane (1923)
“Blood-Burning Moon”,
 Seventh Street”  
“Portrait in Georgia”
117
Q

Hart Crane

A

The Bridge (1930 about the Brooklyn Bridge)
“The Broken Tower”
“Chaplinesque”

118
Q

Sterling Brown

A

Harlem Renaissance
He wrote about the African American rural experience, unlike many of his contemporaries who focused on urban themes

Southern Road (1932)
The Negro in American Fiction (1937)
Negro Poetry and Drama (1937).
“Southern Road”
 “Tin Roof Blues”
 “Master and Man”
“Riverbank Blues”
119
Q

Langston Hughes

A

Harlem Renaissance
“jazz poet”
The Weary Blues (1926)
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)

120
Q

Countee Cullen

A

Harlem Renaissance

Color (1925)
“Yet Do I Marvel”, 
“Heritage”
 “I Have a Rendezvous With Life"
 “To A Brown Boy”:
121
Q

House of Mirth

A 
Lily Bart
Lawrence Selden 
Bertha Dorset
Gerty Farish
Simon Rosedale
122
Q

The Age of Innocence

A

Newland Archer
Countess Ellen Olenska
May Welland
Mrs. Manson Mingott

123
Q

John Kendrick Bangs

A

The bicyclers and three other farces

124
Q

Sinclair Lewis

A

Babbit ( a real estate agent and social climber)

125
Q

Eudora Welty

A

southern regionalist

“Why I Live at the P.O.”

126
Q

Ralph Ellison

A

African American

Invisible Man

127
Q

Bernard Malamud

A

Jewish perspective

The Natural (1952)
“The First Seven Years”
128
Q

Saul Bellow

A

Jewish American writer

The Adventures of Augie March (1953),( coming of age story of a boy in chicago)
Henderson the Rain King (1959), (middle age man goes to Africa)

129
Q

Jack Kerouac

A

Father of the Beat Generation

On the Road

130
Q

Joseph Heller

A

Catch-22

131
Q

James Baldwin

A

Notes of a Native Son
“Sonny’s Blues”
Go tell it on the mountain
The Fire Next time

132
Q

Flannery O’Connor

A

A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955)
Everything That Rises Must Converge
“The Life You Save May Be Your Own”
“Good Country People”

133
Q

Harper Lee

A

Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird

134
Q

Toni Morrison

A

The Bluest Eye
Beloved
The song of solomon

135
Q

John Updike

A

A muck racker

“Rabbit
the jungle

136
Q

Theodore Roethke

A

The Waking (1953)
“Cuttings”
“Elegy for Jane”

137
Q

John Berryman

A

A confessional poet

The Dream Songs
77 Dream Songs (1964)
His Toy, His Dream, His Rest (1968).

138
Q

Robert Lowell

A

A confessional poet

Formalists
Life Studies
For the Union Dead

139
Q

Allen Ginsburg

A

Beat Generation.

“Howl”

140
Q

Anne Sexton

A

A confessional poet

“Her Kind”

141
Q

Sylvia Plath

A

confessional poet

The Colossus and Other Poems (1960)
Ariel (1965),
The Bell Jar (1963).
“Daddy”

142
Q

Adrienne Rich

A

Post-confessional poetry, personal poetry with a universal appeal

143
Q

Tennesse Williams

A

The Glass Menagerie

A Street Car Named Desire

144
Q

Arthur Miller

A

All of My Sons
The Crucible( john proctor, Abigail Williams, Reverend Hale, Giles coray)
Death of a Salesman (Willy Loman)
a view from the bridge

145
Q

Thomas Wolfe

A

Asheville ( Altamont Catawba)

Look homeward bound(Eugene grant)

146
Q

Robert Penn Warren

A

All the Kings men

147
Q

Betty Freidman

A

The feminine mystique

148
Q

John Barth

A

the floating opera ( about a lawyer who uses loop holes to win) ( todd Andrews, Jane mark, captain osborn

149
Q

John Gardener

A

The A&P

Grendel

150
Q

thomas Pynchon

A

The crying of Lot 49 ( 2 battling post office)

Gravity’s rainbow

151
Q

Alice Walker

A

The color purple

Everyday use

152
Q

Edward Albee

A

Who is afraid of virginia wolfe

153
Q

Lorraine Hansberry

A

a raisin in the sun ( walter younger beneatha, Lena, Travis, Joseph)

154
Q

Amy Tan

A

The Joy Luck Club

155
Q

J.D. Salinger

A

A catcher in the rye

156
Q

Vladimir Nobakhov

A

Pruin

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