Antebellum Literature
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Immanuel Kant | Wrote Critique of Pure Reason |
| Immanuel Kant | Emphasized the limits of science and reason - could not explain everything |
| R.W. Emerson | The high priest of transcendentalism |
| R.W. Emerson | Spread the principles of transcendentalism through Europe |
| R.W. Emerson | Preached optimism, self-reliance and the unlimited potential of the individual |
| R.W. Emerson | "The American Scholar" |
| R.W. Emerson | Argued we needed to put aside respect for European culture and they needed to explore their new world |
| R.W. Emerson | "The Over-soul" - the universe itself is God and we all participate in the universal spirit |
| R.W. Emerson | His essay on "self-reliance" stressed individualism and the development of one's own personality |
| H.D. Thoreau | Practiced the self-reliance that emerson preached |
| H.D. Thoreau | "Walden, or Life in the Woods" - lived in a cabin in the woods and wrote a book on his experience |
| H.D. Thoreau | Believed in civil disobedience - refused to pay a tax to the Mexican war |
| Washington Irving | Wrote Diedrich Knickerbocker's A History of New York |
| Washington Irving | Made a living from writing which inspired other authors |
| Washington Irving | Showed that authentic American themes could draw an audience (drew from German folktales) |
| James Fenimore Cooper | A country gentleman |
| James Fenimore Cooper | Got his start as a writer when he bet his wife he could write a better novel than the one he just read |
| James Fenimore Cooper | Wrote "The Spy" - a historical romance in the American Revolution |
| James Fenimore Cooper | Wrote "The Pioneers" which introduced Natty Bumpo - the hero of five novels known as the leather stocking tales |
| James Fenimore Cooper | Wrote tales of man against nature - first successful frontier life romances |
| Edgar Allen Poe | Highest critical esteem in Europe of any American writer |
| Edgar Allen Poe | Concentrated on short stories and poems |
| Edgar Allen Poe | Master of Gothic horror |
| Edgar Allen Poe | Inventor of the detective story |
| Edgar Allen Poe | Made the grotesque and supernatural seem disturbingly real |
| William Gilmore Simms | Best exemplified the genteel man of letters among souther writers |
| William Gilmore Simms | Wrote the Yemasee |
| William Gilmore Simms | Wrote The Partisan - first of seven novels about the American revolution |
| William Gilmore Simms | Author who defended slavery |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Native inhabitant of Salem who was haunted by the knowledge of evil from his Puritan forbears |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Wrote "Twive-Told Tales" which had powerful moral allegories |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Central themes were sin and its consequences |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Wrote the Scarlet Letter |
| Emily Dickinson | Poet who was a recluse |
| Emily Dickinson | Only 2 of her poems were published before her death and were published anonymously |
| Emily Dickinson | Intense isolation led her to focus on her own shifting psychic state |
| Emily Dickinson | Basic themes were life, death, feat, lonliness, nature and God who was described as a distant lover |
| Herman Melville | Wrote Typee and Omoo - exotic adventures in the south seas based on his own experiences |
| Herman Melville | Wrote Moby Dick - the story of Captain Ahab's obsessive quest for a while whale |
| Herman Melville | Explored the darker recesses of the soul |
| Herman Melville | Books were accepted as either adventure or deeper psychological novels |
| Walt Whitman | Most provacative American writer during the antebellum years |
| Walt Whitman | Wrote free verse without much rhyme or meeter |
| Walt Whitman | Wrote "Leaves of Grass" - the most extraordinary piece of whit and wisom |
| Walt Whitman | Some people shuddered at the explicitness of his poems and sexuality |
| Walt Whitman | Vigorously defended democracy: democracy: Democratic Vistas |
| Sarah Hale | Wrote Godey's Lady's Book - the first mass circulation magazine for women |
| Susan Warner | Wrote The Wide Wide World which broke all sale records |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin - powerful anti-slavery novel |
| James G. Bennett | The New York Herald |
| Horace Greely | The New York Tribune |
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