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Transcendentalism
Emerson and Thoreau
Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1962
Albert Albee
George+ Martha
Honey+ Nick
Uncle Tom’s Cabin;
or, Life Among the Lowly,
is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852
ground work for civil war
appeared as a 40-week serial in The National Era,
propaganda novel
American Realism
Mark Twain William Dean Howells Rebecca Harding Davis John W. DeForest Joseph Kirkland E. W. Howe Hamlin Garland Henry James
Rip Van Winkle
Washington Irving, first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later, having missed the American Revolution
Leatherstocking Tales
(1826- 1841)Each novel features Natty Bumppo, a frontiersman known to European-American settlers as “Leatherstocking”, “The Pathfinder”, and “the trapper”
Edgar Allen Poe
January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849
Romanticism
1845, Poe published his poem “The Raven”
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket was published and widely reviewed in 1838.
Edgar Allen Poe’s Literary Magazine
Stylus
Edgar Allen Poe’s style
transcendentalism, gothic
Poe’s enemy
Lowell
Poe’s impact on
Mallarme
Baudelaire
Rimbaud
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Sage of Concord” and “The Buddha of the West”
Poe called Emerson
Mysticism for mysticism’s sake
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s education
graduate of the Harvard Divinity School,
Moby Dick
the whale,
Moby-Dick, written in 1851, recounts the adventures of the narrator Ishmael as he sails on the whaling ship, Pequod, under the command of the monomaniacal Captain Ahab. Melville dedicated the book to fellow Dark Romantic, Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Ishmael is the sole survivor, rescued by another ship- Rachael.
Mark Twain’s Real name
Samuel Clemens
Walt Whitman’s sexuality
Homosexual
Walt Whitman’s Leaves of grass publication
1855
oh, captain, my captain has written
1865, death of Abraham Lincoln
Invisible Man was written by
H.G. Wells
Ralph Ellison 1952
Holden Caulfield
Catcher In the Rye
USA, A trilogy
John Dos Passos
Mice and Men written taken by
Robert Burns
Born Idiot in sound and fury
Benjy
Manawaka Novels
Margaret Laurence
Herzog, year and written by
1964 Saul Bellow
Natty bumpo in whose novel
Fennimore
Who wrote Leatherstocking novels
Fennimore
Aeolian Harp in favorite of
Emerson
Melville’s post houmous work
Billy Bud
Portrait of a Lady year and writer
1885, Henry James
Old man and the fish, writer, character, and how many days without fish
Hemingway, Santigo, 84
Pen name of Tennessee Williams
Thomas Lavier Williams
Elegy on Lincoln
Walt Whitman, lilac lost
Chicago was written by
Carl Sandburg
Last of Mohicans was written by
Fennimore
The Scarlett Letter was written by
Nathaniel Hawthrone in the year 1850
tom sawyer was written in
1875
The red badge of courage
1895, by Stephen crane
Three Lives was written by
Gertrude Stein
North of Boston was written by
Robert Frost
the Great Gatsby was written by
1925, Fitzgerald
A farewell to arms
Hemingway in 1929
lolita year and who?
1955, Nabokov
A streetcar named desire
1945, TW
Death of a Salesman
1947, AM
Grapes of Wrath
1939
Beloved
1875