A History of the Dividing Line was about:
Byrd's trek into the Dismal Swamp separating the carolinian territories from Virginia and Maryland.
A History of the Dividing Line was written by:
William Byrd
American Drama: Arthur Miller
The Crucible, All My Sons, and Death of a Salesman
American Drama: Edward Albee
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Three Tall Women, and A Delicate Balance
American Drama: Eugene O'Neill
Long Day's Journey into Night, Mourning Becomes Electra, and Desire Under the Elms
American Drama: Tennessee Williams
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire
American Fiction: Ernest Hemingway
Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls
American Fiction: Eudora Welty
The Optomists Daughter
American Fiction: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night
American Fiction: John Updike
Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux
American Fiction: Sinclair Lewis
Babbit and Elmer Gantry
American Fiction: William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury, and Absolom, Absolom!
American Poetry
Multifacited. Authors include: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore, Richard Wilbur, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Rita Dove and Robert Frost.
Anne Bradstreet's poetrey describes:
colonial New England life.
Bejamin Franklin's contributions to Revolutionary literature.
essays from Poor Richard's Almanac and satires such as "How to Reduce a Great Empire to a Small one" and "A Letter to Madame Gout.
Bernard Malamud
The Fixer and The Natural
Billy Budd
Melville. Christ-like sacrifice to the black-and-white maritime laws on the high seas.
Characteristics Of Native-American Liturature
Reverance for and awe of nature, and the interconnectedness of the elements in the life cycle.
Colonial period: Stylistically
neoclassical, emphasizing order, balance, clarity, and reason.
Come Up from the Fields, Father
Walt Whitman. about a Civil War soldier's death and his family's reaction.
cricket on the harth
one of Hawthorne's children's stories
Declaration of Independence
this was the brainchild predominantly of Thomas Jefferson (edited by Ben Franklin) and is a prime example of neoclassical writing--balanced, well crafted, and focused.
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, The Devil and Tom Walker, & Rapuccini's Daughter
Dark, brooding, adult short stories by Hawthorne
EAP begins the detective story genre with:
Murders in the Rue Morgue
EAP horror
The Telltale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe
distinctly america version of romanticism with his 16 syllable lines in The Raven, the classical To Helen, and his Gothic Annabelle Lee. The origional horror short story writer.
Emerson
wrote about the transcending the complexities of life
Emerson most remembered for:
his address to Thoreau's Harvard graduating class The American Scholar--defined the qualities of hard work and intillectual spirit required of Americans in their growing nation.
Emerson's Essays and War poetry
elegantly crafted and still validate several important universal truths.
Emily Dickinson
all but three of her poems were never published in her lifetime. her themes: introspection and attention to nature's details and wonders.
Fireside Poets
James Russell, Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and John Greenleaf Wittier.
great orations of the revolutionary period
Pactrick Henry's "Speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses" ('Give me liberty or give me death') and George Washington's "Farewell to the Army of the Patomac
James Fenimore Cooper
his early writings (including Leatherstocking Tales) provide readers a window into the uniquely American world through stirring accounts of drums along the Mohawk Trail, the French and Indian Wars, the futile British defense of Fort William Henry, and the
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman. gave America its first truly unique poetry form.
Longfellow
Hiawatha, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Evageline. told of adversity, sorrow, and ultimate happiness--uniquely American Fashion.
Mark Twain
uniue blend of tall tale and fable.
Moby Dick
Herman Melville. Follows crazed Captain Ahab on his odyssey to conquer the great white whale that has outwitted him and his whaling crews time and again. Melville paints in painstaking detail and with knowledge the harsh life of a whaler out of New Bedfor
Nathaniel Hawthore and Herman Melville
Preeminent early American novelists. Write on subjects definitely regional, specific, and American, yet sharing insights about human foibles, fears, loves, doubts and triumphs.
naturalists
many writers believed that man was subject to a fate over which he had no control. the short stories "outcasts of Poker Flat" (Bret Harte) "To Build a Fire" (Jack London).
Realistic period
the late nineteenth centurey saw a reaction against the tendency of Romantic writers to look at the world through rose-colored glasses. writers like Frank Norris (the pit) and Upton Sinclair (the Jungle) used their novels to decry deporable working contit
realistic writers
wrote of common, ordinary people and events using realistic detail to reveal the harsh realities of life. they broached taboos by creating protagonists whose environments often destroyed them.
Robert Frost
one of the most loved twentieth-century American poets. His New England motifs of snowy evenings, birches, apple picking, stone wall mending, hired hands, and nature relate universal truths through exquisite diction, polysyllabic words and rare allusions
Romantic Period
composed of Early American folk tales and the emergence of a distinctly American style of writing.
romantic writers
created protagonists whose indomitable wills helped them rise above adversity.
Snowbound
by whittier. Relates the story of a captive family isolated by a blizzard and stresses family closeness.
Some memorable characters by James Fenimore Cooper
Natty Bumppo, Chingachgook, Uncas, and Magua. they reflect the American spirit in thought and action.
Southern Cavaliers
came to the New World with King George's blessing. They were given grants to pursue business ventures. ex: W. Byrd
The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn.
bold. oft banned. examined many taboo subjects. written partly in dialect and southern vernacular. some say: greatest american novel.
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and The Man who Stole Hadleyburg
Mark Twain. epitomes of short story writing.
The Courtin
by Lowell. Uses Yankee dialect to tell a story
The House of Seven Gables
Nathanial Hawthorne: deals with kept secrets, loneliness, societal pariahs, and the triumph of love over horrible wrongs.
The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Abrose Bierce. Relates the unfortunate hanging of a Confederate soldier.
The Revolutionary Period
Primarily nonfiction. Essay, Pamphlet, Speech, Famous Document, and Epistle.
The Scarlet Letter
Nathanial Hawthorne's Masterpiece
Themes of Native-American Literature
The hardiness of the native body and soul, remorse for the destruction of the native way of life, the genocide of many tribes by the encroaching settlement and Manifest Destiny policies of the U.S. government.
Thomas Paine
wrote Common Sense: a pamphlet that spoke to the American patriots' common sense in dealing with issues in the cause of freedom.
Thoreau
wanted to get to the "marrow of life" immersed himself in nature. wrote passionately regarding his objections to the interference of government in the life of the individual.
Transcendentalism authors
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau. offshoots of American Romanticism.
twentieth-century american writing is divided into what 3 catagories?
drama, fiction, and poetry.
Walt Whitman
classified by poignant poetry and ushered in the Civil War period. paid homage to all who suffered from the ripple effects of war and presidential assasination.
What do Washingon Irvin's characters (Ichabod Crane and Rip Van Winkle) represent?
uniquely American folklore devoid of English influences. Indelibly marked by their environment and the superstitions of the New Englander.
When Lilacs Last in the Courtyard Bloom'd
Walt Whitman. about the effects of Lincoln's death on the poet and nation.
Why were colonists' writing and speaking "British
because they had been schooled in England, even though their thinking became entirely American
William Bradord's excerpts from "the Mayflower Compact relate:
the hardships of crossing the Atlantic, the misery and suffering of the first winter, the approaches of the American Indians, the decimation of the colonists' ranks, and the establishment of the Bay colony of Massachusetts.