Revolutionary and Late 1700s American Lit Flashcards
Essays defending the Constitution by John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison
The Federalist Papers
Pamphlet series by Thomas Paine published between 1776 and 1783
The Crisis or The American Crisis
47 page pamphlet by Thomas Paine advocating American independence
Common Sense
Pamphlet by Thomas Paine encouraging the French Revolution
The Rights of Man
Pamphlet by Thomas Paine espousing deism and challenging Christianity
The Age of Reason
Hartford wit poet who wrote “M’Fingal” or “McFingal” about a Tory who gets tarred and feathered
John Trumbull
Hartford wit poet and grandson of Jonathan Edwards who satirized David Hume in “The Triumph of Infidelity,” along with the poems Conquest of Canaan and Greenfield Hill
Timothy Dwight
Mock-heroic poem celebrating the simple American life exemplified by the title dish, by Hartford wit poet Joel Barlow
Hasty Pudding
Poet of the Revolution who wrote “House of Night” “The Wild Honey Suckle” and “Indian Burial Ground”
Philip Freneau
Olaudah Equiano (freed slave) - Best Known Work
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Gustava Vassa the African
William Brown’s best known work, considered the First American novel. About Harrington who can’t marry his half-sister Harriot with both of them ending up dead.
The Power of Sympathy
Satirical American novel resembling Don Quixote, best known work by Hugh Henry Brackenridge
Modern Chivalry
Charles Brockden Brown gothic novel detailing the horrific events that occur to the title family
Wieland
Charles Brockden Brown novel that’s very dark, surrounding the Yellow Fever epidemic in Philadelphia
Arthur Mervyn
Dark Charles Brockden Brown novel subtitled “Memoirs of a sleepwalker”
Edgar Huntly
