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- American Transcendentalism Web
- http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/
- An "interlinked hypertext was first created in Spring 1999 by Virginia Commonwealth University graduate students studying in Professor Ann Woodlief's class in Studies in American Transcendentalism."
- Contains: Historical Context,
- Author: Woodlief, Ann
- From: Virginia Commonwealth University
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- The American Female Poets, With Biographical and Critical Notices
- http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=amverse;idno=BAE7433.0001.001
- Contains selected poems of assorted American women poets, with short biographical sketches and critical notes.
- From: Humanities Text Initiative Philadelphia, Penn: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1853
- Keywords: Women, Poetry, Poets
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- The American Novel
- http://www.bartleby.com/187/
- "This historical treatment of the development of the ÒGreat American NovelÓ expands upon Van DorenÕs chapters on fiction in the Cambridge History of American Literature."
- Contains: Historical Context
- Author: Van Doren, Carl
- From: Macmillan 1921
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- American Spirit in Literature: A Chronicle of Great Interpreters
- http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=3410
- "Certain expressions of American sentiment or conviction have served to summarize or to clarify the spirit of the nation. The authors of these productions have frequently won the recognition and affection of their contemporaries by means of prose and verse quite unsuited to sustain the test of severe critical standards. Neither Longfellow's 'Excelsior' nor Poe's 'Bells' nor Whittier's 'Maud Muller' is among the best poems of the three writers in question, yet there was something in each of these productions which caught the fancy of a whole American generation. It expressed one phase of the national mind in a given historical period."
- Contains: Historical Context
- Author: Bliss Perry
- From: New Haven, Yale University Press 1918
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- Distrust of the Reader in Afro-American Narratives
- http://books.iuniverse.com/viewbooks.asp?isbn=1583484167&page=300
- "I will argue here... that Afro-American literature has developed as much because of the culture's distrust of literacy as because of its abiding faith in it."
- Contains: Historical Context
- Author: Robert B. Stepto
- From: Reconstructing American Literary History Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986. p.300
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- Early Humorists
- http://www.bartleby.com/226/index.html#10
- This lengthy analysis of early American humourists includes sections on "Two Forms of American Humour: Classical and Native", "Colonial Humorists", "Baldwin: The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi", "Shaw: Josh Billings", and "Browne: Artemus Ward."
- Contains: Historical Context, Content Analysis, Bibliography
- Author: Will D. Howe
- From: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Volume XVI: American, Early National Literature: Part II, Later National Literature: Part II
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- "Of Plymouth Rock and Jamestown and Ellis Island"; or, Ethnic Literature and Some Redefinitions of "America"
- http://www.nyupress.org/americansall/americansall3.html?$string
- "In Crèvecoeur's famous answer to the question "What is an American?" in the third of his Letters from an American Farmer (1782) he singled out "that strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country" (Crèvecoeur 1957, 39). For Crèvecoeur {right}, the term "American" referred to the ethnic diversity of at least the white colonists in the New World. Initially applied to the Indians, then taken on by the British settlers, by 1900 the term "American" had undoubtedly become problematic."
- Contains: Historical Context
- Author: Werner Sollors
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- An Other Voice: Ventriloquism in the Romantic Period
- http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/hodgson.html
- "Ventriloquism as the voice of an absence: we must begin by abandoning our own twentieth-century preconceptions and recovering those of an earlier era. Charlie McCarthy is a badly misleading guide to the practices of his predecessors. Before 1800, ventriloquism almost exclusively implied not a transferred but a disembodied voice -- the voice putatively of a spirit, of a ghost, of God, or (once ventriloquism became a popular entertainment) of the performer's hidden or invisible companion. The ventriloquist's is always an other's voice; but the history of ventriloquism during the early Romantic period (ca. 1801-1820) is, like many other Romantic histories, a history of the gradual appearance and embodiment of the other."
- Contains: Historical Context
- Author: John A. Hodgson
- From: Romanticism on the Net Vol 16 November 1999
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- Poets of the Civil War I: The North
- http://www.bartleby.com/226/index.html#17
- This lengthy analysis of American poets of the Civil War includes sections on "The Mood of the North", "Effect upon the Poets", "Melville; Halpine", "The War in the West; Willson", "Songs of the Soldiers", and "Lincoln."
- Contains: Historical Context, Content Analysis, Bibliography
- Author: Will D. Howe
- From: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Volume XVI: American, Early National Literature: Part II, Later National Literature: Part II
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- Poets of the Civil War I: The South
- http://www.bartleby.com/226/index.html#18
- This lengthy analysis of American poets of the Civil War includes sections on "Southern Poetry before the War ", "Soldier Poets", "Randall: My Maryland", "Davidson; Living Writers of the South", and "The Poets after the War."
- Contains: Historical Context, Content Analysis, Bibliography
- Author: Edwin Mims
- From: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Volume XVI: American, Early National Literature: Part II, Later National Literature: Part II
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- Romantic Cyborgs: Technology, Authorship, and the Politics of Reproduction in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- http://node9.phil3.uni-freiburg.de/1997/Benesch2.html
- Author: Klaus Benesch
- From: Node9 Volume 1, 1997
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