english-american literature reported by: salas, meia ester t. bsed2-eng reported by: salas, meia...
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English-American Literature
Reported by:Salas, Meia Ester T.
BsEd2-Eng
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2 New Yorkers created some of the most memorable characters & stories in Early American fiction.
Washington IrvingJames Fenimore Cooper
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Washington Irving-published his Sketch Book in 1820, w/c introduced the unforgettable Ichabod Crabe & Rip Van Winkle, both of whom become enduring parts of America’s folklore.
William Thackeray called him the first “Ambassador” from the “the New World of Letters to the Old”
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James Fenimore Cooper- son of wealthy land holder.- he was skeptical of democracy.- he invented several of the themes that would occupy the attention of later American novelists.
His Works are:The Spy (1821) – melodrama about RevolutionThe Pilot(1823)- sea story based on the career of John Paul Jones.
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The most important of Cooper’s Novels are the 5 volumes in the leatherstocking series beginning with* The Pioneers (1823)* The Last of the Mohicans (1826)*The Deerslayer (1841) >these novels dealt with the rapid westward march of white settlement & destruction of the frontier.
>presented an idealized portrait of the woodsman.
>Natty Bumppo- figure of American myth.
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Romanticism
-It is a movement in art, music, & literature that began in the late1700’s & continued into the first half of the 1800’s.-It is a period when reason was stressed as the best way to discover truth.- In contrast, Romanticism emphasized emotion & individual feelings over
reason & logic.
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Followers of Romanticism:
William Cullen Bryant - was the 1st American poet to respond to the new movement.His poems are:- Thanatopsis (1821)- A forest Hymn (1825) – spoke of nature w/ affection & reverence.
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Edgar Allan Poe- He earned a very little success in his brief life but;- He has had a great influence on European as well as American Literature in the years since his death.- His poetic theories insisting on beauty & emotional nature of poetry.- He pioneered in the mystery story & detective where he invented C. Auguste Dupin looks forward to a later fictional
Sherlock Holmes.
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Poe’s tales of the grotesque are:* The black cat* The pit & the pendulum* The fall of the house of Usher
> It fascinated generations of readers.> He is “The Father of the Short Story”
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The Early 1800’s
-New England Poets- Emarson, Fuller, & Thoreau- Histories- Nathaniel Hawthorne-Herman Melville
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