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Title: American Literature Chart: Authors, Years, and Major Themes!
Description: Authors include Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hendry David Thoreau, Herman Melville and other major American authors. Notes taken in review for the final exam in a 200-level American literature course (college).
Description: Authors include Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hendry David Thoreau, Herman Melville and other major American authors. Notes taken in review for the final exam in a 200-level American literature course (college).
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Title
Author
Year Published
(roughly)
Themes, history,
background info
...
John De
Crevecoeur
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Late 1700’s
Early 1800’s
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1836
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
1836
Post-American
Revolution
revolution & American
freedom
Post-American
Revolution
Transcendentalism
French control
Race, gender
oppression
Slavery
Letter to President
Martin Van Buren
Self-Reliance
1838
Response to the Trail of
Tears (Cherokee Indians)
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Frederick Douglass
1841
Financial panic
Mid 1800’s
Pre-Civil War
Resistance to civil
Government
Moby Dick
Henry David Thoreau
Mid 1800’s
Transcendentalism
Herman Melville
Mid 1800’s
Crossing Brooklyn
Ferry
Song of Myself
Walt Whitman
Mid 1800’s
Walt Whitman
Mid 1800’s
Various poems
Emily Dickinson
Late 1800’s
Romanticism/American
Renaissance
Whitman’s oneness with
the world/nature
Complexity of American
immigration
Transcendentalism
In Our Time
Earnest Hemingway
1925
WWI, solider
reconciliation
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
2002
Modern American racism
and immigration, 9/11
Hum
Jamaal May
2013
Detroit files for
bankruptcy
Narrative of The Life
Mob rule, peer, ugly
side of Americanism
Secret sin
Imitation, false society
Unfair treatment of
Indians, Organized
government & church
Conformism, imitation
Slavery, oppression of
women & blacks
Letting government
overrule conscience
Slavery, racial
stereotypes, religion
Monotony, cyclical,
repetitive life
Inequality, judgement
Following traditions,
conforming even if it’s
wrong
Violence, war,
inhumanity at Smyrna,
politics over
compassion
Judgement towards
hermaphrodites &
immigrants, “The
American Dream”
Lack of emotion, human
expression, spirituality
Title: American Literature Chart: Authors, Years, and Major Themes!
Description: Authors include Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hendry David Thoreau, Herman Melville and other major American authors. Notes taken in review for the final exam in a 200-level American literature course (college).
Description: Authors include Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hendry David Thoreau, Herman Melville and other major American authors. Notes taken in review for the final exam in a 200-level American literature course (college).