Colonial/Pre-Revolutionary American Literature Flashcards
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John Smith
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Generall Historie of Virginia New England and the Summer Isles
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William Bradford
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History of Plimmoth Plantation
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John Winthrop
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History of New England
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Increase Mather
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An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences
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Cotton Mather
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Magnalia Christi Americana: The Ecclesiastical History of NE from its First Planting
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Thomas Morton
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New England Canaan, Merrymount colony
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John Mason
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Brief History of the Pequod War
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Mary Rowlandson
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Wrote about captivity by Wampanoags
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Anne Bradstreet
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Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America A Dialogue between Old England and New Four Elements Four Constitutions Four Ages of Man Four Seasons Four Monarchies Contemplations
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Edward Taylor
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Poetical Works, God’s Determinations Touching His Elect
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Michael Wigglesworth
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Day of Doom (sinners and unbaptized infants condemned to Hell on Day of Judgment)
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George Alsop
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A Character of the Province of Maryland
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Daniel Denton
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A Brief Description of New York
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Jonathan Edwards
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
A faithful Narrative of the surprising Work of God
Freedom of the Will
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William Byrd
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History of the Dividing Line
Secret Diary
Another Secret Diary
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Lucy Terry
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Bar’s Fight August 28, 1746
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Jupiter Hammon
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(black slave) An Evening Thought on Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries
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Phillis Wheatley
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(first famous black) Poems on Various subjects Religious and Moral
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John Campbell
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Boston News-Leter (first regular newspaper 1704)
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Andrew Bradford
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American Magazine (one of first two magazines, 1741)
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Benjamin Franklin
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General Magazine and Historical Chronical (one of two magazines, 1741)
Autobiography
Poor Richard’s Almanack (Richard Saunders)
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Crevecoeur (J. Hector St. John)
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Letters from an American Farmer
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John Jay, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton
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The Federalist
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Thomas Paine
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Common Sense
Crisis
Age of Reason
The Rights of Man
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Hartford Wits
John Trumbull, Timothy Dwight, Joel Barlow
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John Trumbull
M'Fingal - M'Fingal is tarred and feathered and repents
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Timothy Dwight
The Conquest of Canaan, the Triumph of Infidelity, Greenfield Hill
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Joel Barlow
Hasty Pudding
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Philip Freneau
House of Night
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Olaudah Esquiano
(feed slave) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Gustavus Vassa the African
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William Brown
Power of Sympathy (first American novel; Harrington can't marry Harriot Fawcett because she is his half sister, they both die)
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Hugh Henry Brackenridge
Modern Chivalry (Captain Farrago and Teague O'Reagan travel, seeign unqualified office holders, including Teague)
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Charles Brown
Wieland of the Transformation (first American novel popular in Europe)
Arthur Mervyn
Edgar Huntly
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Washington Irving
Called "The American Goldsmith"
A History of New York by Diedrich Knickerbocker
Sketch-Book of Geoffery Crayon which includes:
- Rip Van Winkle (Rip Van Winkle drinks from dwarf's keg with dog Wolf in Catskills and sleeps for 20 years; like German Peter Klaus
- Sleepy hollow (Schoolmaster Ichabod Crane loves Katrina Van Tassel but is scared away by rival Brom Bones who masquerades as headless horseman)
The Alhambra
A Tour of the Prairies
biographies of Columbus and Washington
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Willium Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis
| Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood
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James Fenimore Cooper
Leatherstocking series:
- Pioneers (Templeton, NY: Natty Bumppo punished for kiling deer while other kill many pigeons; Elizabeth Temple marries Edward Efingham, resolving question of Judge Temple's lands)
- Last of the Mohicans (Alice and Cora Munro try to join father at Fort William Henry; opposed by Hurons under Magua; Uncas, his dad Delaware Chief Chingachgook, and Hawkeye oppose Hurons)
- Prairie (old Natty Bumppo dies; Ishmael Bush squatters)
- Pathfinder (Pathfinder dumps Mabel Durham when he learns she loves susepected but vindicated traitor Jasper Western; Indian heroine Dew-of-June)
- Deerslayer (Lake Ostego, NY: Natty Bumppo and Hurry Harry March fight Hurons; Judith Hunter fails to interest Natty)
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Pilot
Spy
Littlepage Manuscripts
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Cambridge Poets
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
James Russel Lowell
Oliver Wendell Holmes
John Greenleaf Whittier
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Evangeline (Gabriel Lajeunesse sent to LA and Evangeline Bellefontaine to NE when Acadians expelled from Nova Scotia; meet again in Philadelphia where she is a nurse and he dies)
Song of Hiawatha (Ojibway Indian Hiawatha raised by grandmother Nokomis, dauther of the moon; revenges mom Wenonah against dad West Wind; teaches peace with whites; wife Minnehaha becomes ill and they go to Northwest Wind)
Courtship of Miles Standish (Plymouth Plantation: shy military man Miles Standish asks John Alden to woo Priscilla Mullins for him, but she marries John isntead, and Miles gives blessing)
Translated the Divine Comedy
My Lost Youth (youth in Portland, ME)
Village Blacksmith
The Building of the Ship
The Children's Hour
The Wreck of the Hesperus
Tales of a Wayside Inn (collection of poems in the style of Canterbury Tales; includes Paul Revere's Ride, Elizabeth, the Battle of Carmilhan, Emma and Eginhard, The Saga of King Olaf)
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James Russel Lowell
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The Bigelow Papers
Harvard Commemoration Ode (in honor of Civil War dead)
Among My Books
A Fable for Critics
edited the Atlantic Monthly
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
The Chambered Nautilius (sea creature enlarges its shell as it grows)
The Deacon's Masterpiece or the Wonderful One-Hoss Shay (shay fell apart, satinizing Calvinist permanence)
Elsie Venner A Romance of Destiny (Else Venner has serpentine qualities because mom was bitten by snake; loves Bernard Langdon but she dies)
Old Ironsides (saved USS Constitution from being scrapped)
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Frederick Douglass
(escaped slave) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
My Bondage and My Freedom
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
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William Wells Brown
(escaped slave)
| Clotel (about racial intermarriage, first novel by black American)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The American Scholar
Nature
Address at Dvinity College
Essays
Self-Reliance
Compensation
Concord Hymn
Days
MErlin
The Over-Soul
Representative Men
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Henry David Thoreau
Walden or Life in teh Woods
Civil Disobedience (that government is best which governs least)
Life Without Principle
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Count Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
Twice-Told Tales (tales including Howe's Masquerade, The Grey Champion, The Great Carbuncle, and The MInister's Black Veil; title from King John)
Mosses from an Old Manse (25 stories including Young Goodman Brown (Puritan Brown, led by old man, observes wife Faith at a witches' Sabbath in the woods and returns to Salem a sad man) and The Birthmark (Alymer removes birthmark from perfect wife Georgiana, killing her), Rappaccini's Daughter (doctor Rappaccini nourishes daughter Beatrice on poisons so she may help with dangerous plant experiments; she dies drinking antidote from faithless suitor), Celestial Railroad
House of Seven Gables (Salem; Colonel Pyncheon obtained land for House of Seven Gables by accusing owner matthew Maule of witchraft Maule cursed Pyncheons; Clifford Pyncheon jailed fro murder of uncle actually committed by Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon; Pheobe and Holgrave, a descendent of Maule, fall in love and break the curse)
Marble Faun (Italina Count Donatello loves Mriam and kills her pursuer Antonio; artist Hilda witnesses the murder, confesses to priest and loves Kenyon)
Blithedale Romance (based on Brook Farm; Miles Coverdale narrates; Zenobia loves Hollingsworth who loves Priscilla)
Fanshawe (Fanshawe loves Ellen Langdon, ward of Harley College President Dr. Melmoth but gives to man she loves and dies; modeled on Bowdoin)
The Dolliver Romance (unfinsihed; Dr. Dolliver maeks elixir to care for granddaughter Pnasie but Colonel Dabney wants it for selfish reasons and dies)
Tanglewood Tales
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Herman Melville
Typee A Peep at Polynesian Life (hero and friend Toby jump ship in Marquesas Ilands and wander into valley of Typee where cannibals capture them; Fayaway nruses hero but he chooses to return to civilization)
Omoo A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (crew of Julia is imprisoned on Tahiti: hero and friend Doctor Long Ghost are released and explore the island)
Mardi and a Voyage Tither (5 Men sail through Mardi on King Media's boat; stop in Vienza; Taji kills priest Aleema to rescue Yillah; Hautia seeks Taji; others include philosopher Babbalanja, poet Yoomy, and Historian Mohi)
Moby Dick (Captain Ahab pursues Moby-Dick; others on the Pequod include God-fearing Starbuck, Stubb, Harpooners Queenqueg, Daggoo, and Tashtego, blck Pip, and fire-worshipping Parsee; only narrator Ishmael survives)
Pierre or the Ambiguities (writer Pierre Grlendinning leaves mom and fiance Lucy Tartan for illegitimate sister, whom he comes to love; commits suicide in prison)
White Jacket or The world in a Man-of-War (white jacket nearly downs narrator when he falls into water; Jack Chasae appears on US Navy man-of-war; brutal floggings condemned)
Billy Budd Foretopman(Claggart falsely accuses Billy; Billy kills Claggart; Captain Vere reluctantly hangs Billy)
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of teh War
Clarel A Poem and A Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (theological student Clarel loves Jew Ruth while in Holy Land)
The Confidence-Man His Masquerade (Fidele MS River boat on April Fool's Day; no plot)
The Piazza Tales (short stories including The Bell Tower (artist Bannadonna rivals God), The Lighting-Rod Man (man refuses to buy lightning-rod because he does not control or fear God), The Enchanted Isles (sketches based on Galapagos Islands), Benito Cerreno, Bartleby the Scrivener (Bartleby refuses to do his job proofreading legal documents, is imprisoned, and starves)
