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Há 1 dia · Including reference to nineteenth-century American writers, Louisa May Alcott (Little Women [1868]) and Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom’s Cabin [1852]), as well as Colson Whitehead’s neo-slave narrative, The Underground Railroad [2016]), the volume above all ‘reminds us … of the role of the bookshelf as a contested and complex cultural space’ (p. 20).
10 de mai. de 2024 · Transcendentalism, 19th-century movement of writers and philosophers in New England who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on belief in the essential unity of all creation, the innate goodness of humanity, and the supremacy of insight over logic and experience.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Transcendentalism is a 19th-century movement of writers and philosophers in New England who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealist...
- Transcendentalism attracted such diverse and highly individualistic figures as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Orestes B...
- The 19th-century Transcendentalism movement was inspired by German transcendentalism, Platonism and Neoplatonism, the Indian and Chinese scriptures...
23 de mai. de 2024 · Frederick Douglass, African American abolitionist, orator, newspaper publisher, and author who is famous for his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself. He became the first Black U.S. marshal and was the most photographed American man of the 19th century.
- Noelle Trent
29 de mai. de 2024 · The vitality of 20th-century American literature is most evident in the novel, practitioners of which include William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, John Updike, and Thomas Pynchon.
- Isabel Duque
- 2019
Há 2 dias · 19th century – Unique American style John Neal. After the war with Britain in 1812, there was an increasing desire to produce a uniquely American literature and culture. Literary figures who took up the cause included Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, and James Fenimore Cooper.
23 de mai. de 2024 · John S. Jacobs was a fugitive, an abolitionist — and the brother of the canonical author Harriet Jacobs. Now, his own fierce autobiography has re-emerged.
Há 1 dia · Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland were in the Amazon rainforest by the Casiquiare River, with their scientific instruments, which enabled them to take many types of accurate measurements throughout their five-year journey.
