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15 Cards in this Set
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Washington Irving
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Romantic, 1st American to win int'l recognition published Sketch Book, Rip Van Winkle, Sleepy Hollow
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James Fenimore Cooper
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1st creator writer of fiction in American literature to make extensive use of Amer. land; lived in NY, well-to-do family, 1st American novelist of the sea; wrote Precaution, Spy, Leatherstocking Tales- Pioneer (natty bumpo)
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William Cullen Bryant
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early Romantic poet, his poetry is modern and fwd looking, leader of abolitionist movement; wrote "Thanatopsis"; Death of Lincoln, nature poetry
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Edgar Allan Poe
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foster parents the allan's; women in life: sarah royster, mom's, virginia; 1st book of poetry Tamerlain; served in army; bipolar; wrote raven, fall of the house of usher,ligeia, etc.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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transcendentalist, wife ellen tucker and later lydia jackson, went to school for ministry even though he doubted religion,wrote Nature,divinity school address; american scholar (essay); self reliance (essay); journals
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Margaret Fuller
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drowned on sunken ship returning from italy to america; involved in transcendental club; edited journal The Dial; wrote Woman in the 19th century (1st full length investigations of equality in American lit.
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Henry David Thoreau
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transcendentalist; speaks to other generations more than his own; wrote Walden (journal not novel); born and raised in Concord, MA; "Week on Concord and Merrimack rivers," Civil Disobedience (most impt essay in Amer. lit)
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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born in Salem, MA; married sophia peabody; themes: right/wrong, good/evil, illusion/reality; able to create believable female characters; lived in solitude in room for many years; wrote minister's black veil, wakefield, mosses from old manse(young goodman brown, birthmark, rappaccini's daughter), house of 7 gables,my kinsman, major moulineux
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Herman Melville
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novelist of the sea; born in NYC; went to sea aboard a merchant ship then whaling ship; 1st novel- Typee, wrote Moby Dick; Piazza Tales- Bartelby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, civil war poetry- portent, maldive shark, etc.
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Walt Whitman
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aware of fallibility of human beings,Leaves of Grass-section of civil war poetry, helped nurse soldiers during war; wrote "there was a child went forth"; "song of myself"
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Abraham Lincoln
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cussicient (short and eloquent at the same time); reply to horace greely(official duty v. personal wish); 1st and 2nd inagural address
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Harriet Jacobs
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wrote about life as a slave and the horrible incidents she encountered; psychological fear (sexually abused by her master); in NC; slave narrative
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Fredrick Douglas
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harsh beating more physical fear; accused of not writing his works b/c of his eloquence; slave; abolitionist
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Rebecca Harding Davis
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life in iron mills, most workers were unmarried women, lived in dormitory still buildings, worked 6 days/week, 12 hours/day; working to help out her poor family and create a small dowry to be more appealing to men
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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wanted to encourage white middle class northerners to get out and become actively involved in abolitionist movement; Uncle Tom's Cabin was imperative to the demise of slavery; husband Calvin; Uncle Tom is a Christ like figure who forgives everyone before he dies; best selling novel of its time
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