Prairie, The Path Finder, and The Deer Slayer.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature made a tremendous impact on the intellectual life of America.
pride and emotional repression. The Scarlet Letter brought him great fame and
fortune.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041864)
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Walden is a record of his reflections when he communicates with nature.
helped create a new genre for American literature. ▪ The most famous stories of this book are Rip Van Winkle and
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
1. He was a friend and fellow thinker of Emerson’s. 2. In 1845 he built a cabin on Walden Pond, and moved
in to live there for two years.
Charaters: Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth, Arthur Dimmesdale
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Moby Dick is considered one of the world’s greatest masterpieces.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041864)
He understood evil to be at the core of human life. He tried to explore certain moral values such as guilt,
Herman Melville
Characters: The Captain Ahab, Ishmael, Moby Dick
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
The first version of Leaves of Grass was published in 1855.
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Washington Irving (1783-1859)
▪ Washington Irving was the father of American literature. ▪ His The Sketch Book is a collection of essays and tales, which
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
The Leatherstocking Tales were a series of novels about the frontier lives of American settlers.
The Pioneers was the first of The Leatherstocking Tales. The other four stories are The Last of the Mohicans, The
It was revised and went through nine editions.
Bold language, long irregular lines and free-flowing structure
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Poe has a unique position in the history of American literature.
His poems are well known for their musical language and extravagant imagery.
Moby Dick is a story about a whaling voyage.
The story explored some themes such as fate and the nature of evil.
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Transcendentalists placed emphasis on oversoul as the most important thing in the universe.
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