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Há 4 dias · Learn about the written works produced in the English language in the United States, from the colonial era to the 21st century. Explore the key people, topics, and events that shaped American literature and its relation to the history of the country.
- Literature has existed in the Americas for as long as the people who lived there have been telling stories. Native American cultures have a rich hi...
- Notable authors of American literature include: John Smith, who wrote some of its earliest works; Phillis Wheatley, who was the first Black woman t...
- American literature is often divided into six major periods:
American literature is literature written or produced in the United States and in the colonies that preceded it. It covers various genres, periods, and languages, and reflects the diverse cultures and influences of the American people.
31 de mai. de 2022 · Ilan Stavans, a professor and author, discusses his book and the challenges of defining American literature. He explores the history, culture, and diversity of American literature and its role in shaping the nation's identity.
- Early Cultural Context
- The Rise of Literary Realism
- American Literature and The Early American Academy
- American Literature at The Turn of The Century
- American Literature and The Modern Academy: A Culmination
- Bibliography
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The cultural trauma of the Civil War produced a permanently altered sense of national consciousness among Americans who lived through it and beyond it. But the war between the states was only one of manyphenomena of the late nineteenth century that transformed the United States from a country fundamentally sectionalist in attitude (e.g., New Englan...
By 1870 a new generation of American authors, committed to the tenets of literary realism, had begun to emerge. The realist artistic vision, though expressed in a variety of ways by hundreds of writers in the late nineteenth century, was, at least in principle, relatively uncomplicated: portray people, places, and things as they actually appear in ...
Although American authors enjoyed popular success among subscribers to national publications in the decades following the Civil War, American literature, generally speaking, had yet to achieve the status of serious art in the minds of those readers. Americans, still harboring lingering feelings of provincial inferiority a century after the signing ...
During the 1890s a profound and noticeable shift began taking place in American literature. A hallmark feature of post–Civil War American literary realism had been plots that featured characters confronting complex ethical dilemmas. Thus a fundamental assumption that lay behind many realist texts was that the individual possesses the free will to d...
The transition of American literature studies into an age of modern sophistication began just after the end of World War I. In April 1921 the final two volumes of The Cambridge History of American Literature appeared, providing American literary studies with its long-sought sense of critical legitimacy. Later that same year scholars of American lit...
Primary Works
Boynton, Percy. A History of American Literature.Boston: Ginn, 1919. Cairns, W. B. A History of American Literature. New York: Oxford UniversityPress, 1912. Crane, Stephen. Maggie, A Girl of the Streets. 1893. Edited by Thomas Gullason. New York: Norton, 1979. Erskine, John, Stuart P. Sherman, William Peterfield Trent, and Carl Van Doren, eds. The Cambridge History of American Literature.4 vols. New York: Putnam, 1917–1921. Foerster, Norman, ed. American Poetry and Prose.2 vols. Boston and Ne...
Secondary Works
Csicsila, Joseph. Canons by Consensus: Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies.Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004. Graff, Gerald. Professing Literature: An Institutional History. Chicago: University of ChicagoPress, 1987. Vanderbilt, Kermit. American Literature and the Academy: The Roots, Growth, and Maturity of a Profession. Philadelphia: University of PennsylvaniaPress, 1986. Joseph Csicsila
Learn about the development and characteristics of American literature from 1870 to 1920, a period of cultural transformation and regional diversity. Explore the rise of literary realism, regionalism, and the quest for the Great American Novel.
15 de out. de 2024 · Overview of American Literature. The literature in English of the British colonies of North America and, after 1776, of the United States. The earliest colonial literature consisted mainly of religious and political tracts. The first notable poets were Anne Bradstreet (1612-72) and Edward Taylor (1642-1729), both of Massachusetts.
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Each issue of American Literature contains articles covering the works of several American authors, from colonial to contemporary, as well as an extensive book review section; a "Brief Mention" section offering citations of new editions and reprints, collections, anthologies, and other professional books; and an "Announcements" section that ...
Learn about the history and characteristics of American literature, from the colonial period to the present. Explore the diverse genres, authors, and themes of American literature in this online textbook.
