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3 days ago · Early 19th-century literature. After the American Revolution, and increasingly after the War of 1812, American writers were exhorted to produce a literature that was truly native. As if in response, four authors of very respectable stature appeared.
- The 18th Century
American literature - Colonial, Revolution, Enlightenment:...
- The Naturalists
American literature - Naturalism, Realism, Regionalism:...
- The Novel and Short Story
American literature - Novels, Short Stories, Fiction: Two...
- The New Poetry
American literature - New Poetry, Imagism, Modernism: Poetry...
- The 17th Century
The utilitarian writings of the 17th century included...
- The Influence of Raymond Carver
American literature - Raymond Carver, Minimalism, Realism:...
- Fiction
American literature - Fiction, Novels, Short Stories: The...
- Literary Criticism
American literature - Criticism, Analysis, History: Some...
- The 18th Century
4 days ago · The framework of nature was soon to be shaken when, at the turn of the century, the theories of Kant and Laplace divested the Newtonian order of its appearance of eternity, and when advances in geology and, finally, the transmutationist theories which culminated in Lamarck's Philosophie zoologique (1809), seemed to show that both inorganic. matter and living species were in the process of transformation. In biology, the criterion of progress was an increase in the specialization of the organism.
1 day ago · The 19th century was a particularly tumultuous period, as the region experienced the rise and fall of chattel slavery through a military loss in 1865 that left in its wake a devastated country, a decimated generation, widespread poverty and physical destruction, the ruin of an agricultural economy that once offered the promise of cotton as “king,” and a legacy of explosive racial rage that would continue throughout the 20th century.
3 days ago · This article traces the history of American poetry, drama, fiction, and social and literary criticism from the early 17th century through the turn of the 21st century.
- 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:
2 days ago · The 19th century was remarkable in the widespread formation of new settlement foundations which were particularly prevalent across North America and Australia, with a significant proportion of the two continents' largest cities being founded at some point in the century.
2 days ago · Overview. Timeline. For most of the Western world, Romanticism was at its peak from approximately 1800 to 1850. The first Romantic ideas arose from an earlier German Counter-Enlightenment movement called Sturm und Drang (German: "Storm and Stress").
4 days ago · Education - 19th Century, Reforms, Schools: From the mid-17th century to the closing years of the 18th century, new social, economic, and intellectual forces steadily quickened—forces that in the late 18th and the 19th centuries would weaken and, in many cases, end the old aristocratic absolutism.
