Semestre 1 Flashcards
1st colony founded by English settlers?
Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607
When was the Declaration of Independence signed?
4th July 1776
What treaty leads to the birth of the US as a country?
Treaty of Paris
How many novels were written before 1830?
250 according to Marc Saporta
Why was fiction long to emerge?
- English was not sp everywhere
- Religion sees that as suspicious
- abs law of copyright
-USA believed in a classless society - No distinct “American History “
” In Letters as in Government we require a Declaration of Independence”
Edgar Allan Poe
Who wrote Letters from an American Farmer
Crevecœur
Who were Emerson and Thoreau?
Figures of transcendentalism
What wrote Walt Whitman?
Leaves of Grass
Dates of American Romanticism?
1820-1860
Trad in French “wilderness “ in the Bible?
Désert
Religion mouvement in the 17th century?
Puritanism
Who is Hester Prynne?
Heroin of The Scarlet Letters , Nathaniel Hawthorne
What happened in 1692?
The Salem Trials
For whom wilderness was the mirror of God’s creation?
Transcendentalists
