American Literature Exam
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- Revolutionary Period
- 1750-1800
- What type of literature was written during the Revolutionary period and why?
- Essays, because people were trying to make a case for founding America.
- Autobiography, Poor Richard's Almanac
- Benjamin Franklin
- The Declaration of Independence
- Thomas Jefferson
- Patrick Henry
- Speech at the Virginia Convention ("give me liberty or give me death")
- Poem about George Washington
- Phyllis Wheatley
- Crisis, Common Sense
- Thomas Payne
- A Growing Nation
- 1800-1840
- Washington Irving
- A History of New York, Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle
- Edgar Allan Poe
- The Raven, The Telltale Heart, Annabel Lee
- James Fennimore Cooper
- dad founded Cooperstown (baseball founded there), The Leatherstocking Tales, Precaution, The Spy
- The New England Renaissance
- 1840-1900
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- brought Transcendentalism to the U.S. from Europe, wrote Nature, The American Scholar, and Self Reliance
- Henry David Thoreau
- Lived with Emerson, wrote Walden (considered the most important work of transcendentalism
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Born in Salem, family was involved in witchcraft trials, lived at Brook Farm but hated it, works at the Custom House, wrote The House of the Seven Gables, The Scarlet Letter and The Blithdale Romance
- Herman Melville
- Worked as a sailor and spent time on whaling ships, wrote Omoo, Typee and Mardi. Wrote The Whale (later retitled Moby Dick) nothing was very famous till he died
- What are the three major aspects of transcendentalism?
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1. intuition
2. self-reliance
3. individualism - Which two authors are considered the anti-transcendentalists?
- Hawthorne and Melville
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Wrote Hiawatha and Paul Revere's Ride, Psalm of Life
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Wrote Old Ironsides (saved a ship U.S.S. Constitution?)
- John Greenleaf Whittier
- Hampton Beach, Barbara Frietchie, Snow Bound
- Emily Dickinson
- NOT a party animal by any means, live in seclusion most of her life, wrote The Bells of Amherst, I Never Saw A Moor,