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323 Cards in this Set
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John Smith |
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Thomas Harriot |
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Anne Bradstreet |
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OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION William Bradford |
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Thomas Hooker |
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Edward Taylor (1680s) Major Poems, themes, literary devices |
MAJOR POEMS: Gods Determinations touching his Elect, Preparatory Meditations
THEMES: Against the Half-Way Covenant Lost Children Redemptive Mercy Incidental Happiness LITERARY DEVICES: Conceits: Wasp, Weaving, Royal Coach Military Register Personified Values (Justice, Mercy, Grace) Dialog |
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John Cotton |
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John Winthrop |
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Samuel Danforth |
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A NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTIVITY AND RESTORATION OF MRS. MARY ROWLANDSON Mary Rowlandson |
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A NARRATIVE OF THE LORD'S WONDERFUL DEALINGS WITH JOHN John Marrant |
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THE REDEEMED CAPTIVE RETURNING TO ZION John Williams |
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"General Introduction" MAGNALIA CHRISTI AMERICANA Cotton Mather |
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"John Winthrop" MAGNALIA CHRISTI AMERICANA Cotton Mather |
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"William Bradford" MAGNALIA CHRISTI AMERICANA Cotton Mather |
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"William Phips" MAGNALIA CHRISTI AMERICANA Cotton Mather |
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"John Cotton" MAGNALIA CHRISTI AMERICANA Cotton Mather |
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"Thomas Hooker" MAGNALIA CHRISTI AMERICANA Cotton Mather |
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JOURNAL Sarah Kemble Knight |
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"Personal Narrative" JONATHAN EDWARDS |
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"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" JONATHAN EDWARDS |
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"Images or Shadows of Divine Things" JONATHAN EDWARDS |
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"A Divine and Supernatural Light" JONATHAN EDWARDS |
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THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1920) Edith Wharton Characters, themes, & literary devices |
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Newland Archer Countess Ellen Olenska May Welland The Beauforts The Mingott Clan THEMES Tyrannical Trifles Fussy Society Custom, Culture, Convention (i.e., duty) v. Freedom Trends LITERARY DEVICES House Metaphors Symbolic Colors (Green and Yellow) Time/Space Compression and Elongation |
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WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT? (1872) Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton Characters, themes, & literary devices |
CHARACTERS
Dr. & Mrs. Norval Lolita Julian Mr. Hackwell the Cackles THEMES the Civil War Duty versus Rogues Fame and Publicity Race, Racism & Post-Colonialism LITERARY DEVICES Romance and Sentiment Classical Allusions Narrative Apostrophes |
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THE HOUSE OF MIRTH (1905) Edith Wharton Characters, themes, & literary devices |
Lily Bart
Mr. Percy Gryce Lawrence Selden Simon Rosedale Judy Trenor Bertha Dorset Aunt Julia |
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A HISTORY OF THE DIVIDING LINE William Byrd |
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SOME ACCOUNTS ON THE FORE-PART OF THE LIFE OF ELIZABETH ASHBRIDGE (1746) Elizabeth Ashbridge Characters, themes, literary devices, & genre(s) |
CHARACTERS: Quakers, Sullivan
THEMES: Independence versus Dour Tone Proto-Feminist Rebellion versus Failed Marriage Heroism versus Perversion Family versus Community Reviling, abusive husband Solitude and Despair Alcoholism Cuban Refusal to Fight LITERARY DEVICES: dialog GENRE(S): Spiritual Autobiography Personal Narrative Social History 18th century rationalism Confessional Fiction? |
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THE CONTRAST (1787) Royall Tyler Characters |
CHARACTERS
Col. Manly, gentleman / persona of America Mr. Billy Dimple, good looking and wealthy; micro-manages relationships with Charlotte, Letitia, and Maria at once; snob / persona of Europe Van Rough, Maria's father Jonathan Charlotte, has friends and good social standing but needs money Maria Letitia, possesses monetary wealth but is looking for friendship |
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THE CONTRAST (1787) Royall Tyler Themes and literary devices |
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Economics ("mind the main chance") versus Sentiment Old/New Fashioned Early Republic Propaganda Private versus Public City versus Country Security (national) versus security (goods) Everyone is acting LITERARY DEVICES Restoration Comedy techniques (e.g., listening in the closet) Surprise ending Publicly edifying morals |
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THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE DIVIDING LINE William Byrd |
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"Resistance to Civil Government" (1849) Thoreau Themes and literary devices |
THEMES: 1. "that government is best which governs not at all" but are we prepared for this???
2. Quality not quantity-- individual appeal not mass appeal 3. what's more free, to reject the state or go berry picking? LITERARY DEVICES: 1. Reverse logarithm logic-- 1,000, 100, 10 honest men, "aye, if one HONEST man, in this State of Mass., ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor [sic], it would be the abolition of slavery in America." 2. Irony of writing: just a document |
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"Ktaadn" (1846) Thoreau Characters, themes, & literary device |
CHARACTERS: McCauslin, Uncle George
THEMES: 1. Burkean sublime & otherness of nature-- "Talk of mysteries!--Think of our life in nature,--daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it--rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! the solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? where are we?" 2. Rural versus Urban; Nature versus Civilization LITERARY DEVICE: Apostrophic moments in linear narrative |
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JOURNAL John Woolman |
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WOMAN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1845) Margaret Fuller Literary Devices |
Literary Analysis/Criticism
Allusions Revolutionary Style (seemingly scattered) but inventive. |
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WOMAN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1845) Margaret Fuller Themes |
Reform!!
Marriage Romance (good) v. Sentiment (bad) Reverence Purposive Nature/Transcendentalism Fourier Head/Heart Passions v. Reason Harmony v. No Harmony |
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY Benjamin Franklin |
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"Autobiographical Romance" Margaret Fuller Themes & Literary Devices |
Themes: Father the stern lawgiver; mother the gardener
Book knowledge v. experience "Natural History of Man" Lit. Devices: Firsts-- first memory, first friend |
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"Speech of Polly Baker" Benjamin Franklin |
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"Leila" Margaret Fuller Themes & Literary Devices |
Universal Heart
Circulation with the Universe One with God and Nature |
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NO. 44, THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER (1905) Mark Twain Characters, themes, & literary devices |
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"The Sale of the Hessians" Benjamin Franklin |
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NO. 44, THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER (1905) Mark Twain Themes |
Tripartite self: working self, dream self, soul
the uncanny allegory of slavery and unions history & time, time travel existentialism |
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SUMMER ON THE LAKES (1844) Margaret Fuller Characters, themes, & literary devices |
CHARACTERS: Mariana, Sylvain, P and Mrs. P, Indians, Frau H., Muckwa (the Bear)
THEMES: Sublime in place and character; Nature as unexpected and unique; Troubled marriages LITERARY DEVICES: Memory, Poetry, Guidebooks |
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SUMMER ON THE LAKES
(1844) Margaret Fuller Literary Devices |
Memory
Poetry Guidebooks |
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"Rules by Which a Great Empire May be Reduced to a Small One" Benjamin Franklin |
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SUMMER ON THE LAKES
(1844) Margaret Fuller Themes |
Sublime in place and character
Nature as unexpected and unique Troubled marriages |
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"Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America" Benjamin Franklin |
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RUTH HALL (1855) Fanny Fern Characters, themes, & literary devices |
CHARACTERS: Ruth and Harry, Dr. Zekiel Hall and Mrs. Hall, Floy, John Walter
THEMES: Decision Making v. Deliberation, Bitch mother-in-law, generational power, marriage as prison, community of (& because of) writers LITERARY DEVICES: 3rd person, novel, sentiment, Dickensian, Epistolary |
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RUTH HALL
(1855) Fanny Fern Literary Devices |
3rd person novel
sentiment Dickensian Epistolary |
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"Information for Those Who Would Remove to America" Benjamin Franklin |
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(1855) Fanny Fern Themes |
Decision Making v. Deliberation
Bitch mother-in-law generational power marriage as prison community of (because of) writers |
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THE RISE OF DAVID LEVINSKY
(1917) Abraham Cahan Characters, themes, & literary devices |
Anna
Dora and Lucy Margolis Matilda Tevkin Max Margolis Mr. Huntington Bender Fanny and the Kaplans |
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THE RISE OF DAVID LEVINSKY
(1917) David Levinsky Literary Devices |
Yiddish slang, American slang
Autobiography |
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"The Ephemera" Benjamin Franklin |
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THE RISE OF DAVID LEVINSKY
(1917) David Levinsky Themes |
Cheating Unions, Cheating Marriages
Lonely at the Top Business versus Education |
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BIG IDEAS for AMERICAN LITERATURE
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liberation is built on servitude
ideas before plot |
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"Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim on the Slave Trade" Benjamin Franklin |
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THE SEA WOLF
(1904) Jack London Characters, themes, & literary devices |
Wolf Larsen, enslaver and tormentor of men
Humphrey Van Weyden, Hump the narrator Maud Brewster, captured English author Thomas Mugridge, cooky the downtrodden |
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THE SEA WOLF
(1904) Jack London Literary Devices & Genre |
Poetic Justice
Staged dialog Genre: captivity narrative |
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THE INTERESTING LIFE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO, OR GUSTAVUS VASSA, THE AFRICAN, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF Olaudah Equiano |
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THE SEA WOLF
(1904) Jack London Themes |
Primitive Strength of the Old World versus sympathy and spiritualism of the New World
Spencer: survival of the fittest Desires versus Right Purposive/non-purposive nature |
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THE IRON HEEL
(1908) Jack London Characters, themes, & literary devices |
Ernest Everhard, labor leader
Avis Everhard, daughter of academic/compiler of manuscripts Anthony Meredith, footnote writer from 2600 AD or 419 B.O.M. (the Brotherhood of Man) |
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POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, RELIGIOUS AND MORAL Phyllis Wheatley |
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THE IRON HEEL
(1908) Jack London Literary Devices & genre |
Speeches
Footnotes Genre: dystopian novel, fictional autobiography |
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THE IRON HEEL
(1908) Jack London Themes |
oligarchic tyranny
competition (capitalism) versus combination (socialism) revolution as violence |
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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN FARMER St. Jean de Crevecoeur |
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"To Build a Fire"
(1908) Jack London Characters, themes, & literary devices |
Characters: Man, Husky Dog, Nature (-75 degrees below)
Literary Devices: remembering an old story told by an old-timer Themes: Man versus Nature, the vicissitudes of dog-like dependence |
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COMMON SENSE Thomas Paine |
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"The Law of Life"
(1901) Jack London Characters Literary Devices Themes |
Character: Old Koskoosh, wolves
Literary Devices: remembering the old time feast-famine cycle Themes: survival of the fittest, law of life: life = death |
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Runaways
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Woolman's journal (55)
The Sea Wolf |
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THE CRISIS #1 Thomas Paine |
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(1756-1772) John Woolman Characters, themes, & literary devices |
Characters: John Churchman
Literary Devices: trope of dyeing clothes (please eye/hide the dirt) dreams & remembrances scenes of hospitality and exchange argumentation letters and petitions |
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(1756-1772) John Woolman Themes |
refusal to pay war taxes
turning hospitality into economy personal revelation racial equality economic justice morally lawful universe Indians/wilderness |
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THE FEDERALIST PAPERS #1 |
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UP FROM SLAVERY
(1901) Booker T. Washington Characters, themes, & literary devices |
Mrs. Rulfner of Vermont, neat
Gen. S. C. Armstrong, great man Mary Mackie, clean |
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UP FROM SLAVERY
(1901) Booker T. Washington Literary Devices |
ironic parallelism (sleeping under the sidewalk --> returning there to receive an award; waiter --> being waited on)
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UP FROM SLAVERY
(1901) Booker T. Washington Themes |
Credit is Capital
Study the actual thing instead of mere books alone Dignity of labor Happiness: working for others No destiny in Race Bathe |
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"The Monster"
(1898) Stephen Crane Characters, theme, and literary devices |
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Little Jimmie Trescott, who broke a flower's spine Dr. Trescott, Henry Johnson, dapper black man-- "the biggest dude in town"-- turns Frankenstein Miss Bella Farragut, his belle Judge Hagenthorpe Alek Williams, caretaker of Henry Martha Goodwin THEME: Frankenstein LITERARY DEVICES: 1. USA tropes of blackness, slavery, the Enlightenment (laboratory burning), and the Declaration of Independence (burning) 2. Religious/judicial numerical tropes: 3 bodies, 12 men; John Twelve 3. Judge/justice symbolically wants to euthanize Henry Johnson |
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THE BLACK RIDERS
and Other Lines (1895) Stephen Crane Themes and Literary Device |
THEME: 1. Sombre tone
2. Man is more the victim of his fate than the decider of it 3. Fate is rarely kind and frequently cruel. LITERARY DEVICE: the parable form |
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"The Blue Hotel"
(1899) Stephen Crane Characters and themes |
CHARACTERS: the Swede, Bill the cowboy, Pat Scully the hotel keeper, Johnnie Scully his son, Blanc the Easterner
THEMES: 1. the stories we tell ourselves to produce or eliminate paranoia (e.g., dime novels and justifications) 2. Masculinity 3. Combination |
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MAIN-TRAVELED ROADS
(1891) Hamlin Garland Stories and their themes |
"A Branch Road": Will loves Agnes, runs away, returns, and she runs with him.
"Up the Coulee": Howard the actor versus brother Grant. "Among the Corn Rows": Rob robs Julia from her parents to make a wife. "The Return of a Private": Edward Smith, a "common American soldier," returns from the War. "Under the Lion's Paw": Butler cons Haskins into improving rented land. "The Creamery Man": Claude tries to marry Lucinda but gets Nina instead. "A Day's Pleasure": Mrs. Markham joins her husband to town. "Mrs. Ripley's Trip": Gran'ma Ripley takes a trip back to Yaark State to visit her family leaving Ripley to fend for himself. "Uncle Ethan Ripley": Ripley paints an ad on the barn. "God's Ravens": A Chicagoan moves back to Wisconsin to regain his boyhood and relearns the value of country-folk. "A 'Good Fellow's' Wife: Banker Jim loses the town's money, his wife starts a business, and his copper mine investment turns good. |
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"The Amber Gods"
(1860) Harriet Prescott Spofford Characters and themes |
CHARACTERS: Giorgione Willoughby (Yone)--blond narrator; Lu--her orphan cousin; Vaughan Rose--brotherly painter whom Yone enchants with her amber beads
THEMES: Catholic cosmopolitanism-- international fated romance; hate is as intense as love; overcoming fate through ancient enchantment/the enchantment of the ancient; death is to become timeless--last lines: "To and fro, soundless and purposeless, swung the long pendulum. And, ah! what was this thing I had become? I had done with time. Not for me the hands moved on their recurrent circle any more. I must have died at ten minutes past one." |
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TRANSNATIONAL & RUNAWAYS
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THE SEA-WOLF, THE JUNGLE
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MAIN-TRAVELED ROADS
MY ANTONIA |
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"Circumstance"
(1863) Harriet Prescott Spofford Plot, themes, literary devices, genre |
PLOT: unnamed protganoist pinned all night by an Indian Devil/panther to which she sings catholic songs thus staving off destruction
THEMES: allegory of woman as writer--forced to express herself or perish; the sexualized beast that confronts artists; domestic inversion (husband at home, she's in the wilderness) then restored; becoming one with (her) nature LITERARY DEVICES: primal, sensuous diction GENRE: romanticism |
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MY ANTONIA
(1918) Willa Cather Characters, themes, & literary devices |
CHARACTERS: Jim Burden (narrator), Antonia (bohemian girl), the Shimerdas (Antonia's family), Cuzak (Antonia's husband), the Cutters (murdering capitalists)
THEMES: Optima dies...prima fugit; hired girls versus city girls, identity LITERARY DEVICES: stories within stories; flash-forwards; sociological interludes |
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THE JUNGLE
(1906) Upton Sinclair Characters, themes, & literary devices |
CHARACTERS: Jurgis and Ona Kudkus (protagonist and wife), Packingtown, Marija (sister-in-law-turned-prostitute); Michael Scully (corrupt democrat); Schliemann (philosophic anarchist)
THEMES: hatred/depression/alcoholism; corrupt democratic procedures; disease and filth as sustenance; fated Oedipal tragedy --> unfated war between man and society; tramping versus wage slavery; intellectual anarchism + economic socialism LITERARY DEVICES: laws and legal papers (versus the law of progress--also a theme); speeches, statistics, muckraking |
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BLAKE, OR THE HUTS OF AMERICA
(serialized 1861-62) Martin R. Delaney Characters, themes, literary devices, & genre |
CHARACTERS: Henry Blake (protagonist), Maggie (his wife), Placido (Cuban poet revolutionary), Mendi (native chief, male slave) and Abyssa (Sudanese Christian, female slave), Gofer Gondolier (fired chef
THEMES:splitting up slave families, running away, homegrown terrorism, homecoming, ignorance is a shackle, middle passage, carnival LITERARY DEVICES: dialect, song, literary dis-juncture between first and second half GENRE: picaresque, "revolutionary" tale |
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MAGGIE: A GIRL OF THE STREETS
(1893) Characters, themes, & literary devices |
CHARACTERS: Jimmie (brother), Maggie (pretty girl), Mary (alcoholic mother), Pete (Jimmie's thuggish friend)
THEMES: home is hell; "replying defiantly to fate," state of nature--war of all against all versus/with domesticity LITERARY DEVICES: dialect, irony, theatrical representations |
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THE DAMNATION OF THERON WARE
(1896) Harold Frederic Characters, themes, and literary devices |
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"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
(1865) Mark Twain Characters, themes, literary devices |
CHARACTERS: dog named Andrew Jackson; frog named Daniel Webster; Simon Wheeler--frame narrator
THEMES: trickery-- frame narrator tricked into asking WHeeler to tell his story; Wheeler tricked into losing his bet on his frog LITERARY DEVICES: irony of names, frame story, dialect difference between narrator and Wheeler |
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Mark Twain
7 RECURRING THEMES |
1. conscience
2. individual v. community 3. language/dialect/remarks/storytelling 4. revenge 5. morality & hypocrisy 6. science/technology |
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"A True Story: Repeated Word for Word as U Heard It"
(1874) Mark Twain Characters, themes, literary devices |
CHARACTERS: Aunt Rachel who tells her life as a slave; Henry who recognizes her for her saying-- "I want you niggers to understan’ dat I wasn’t bawn in de mash to be fool’ by trash!"
THEMES: language as repetition, repetition of form as more meaningful than content; troubled lives beneath happy expressions (reverse of the form/content of the language) LITERARY DEVICES: frame story |
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"The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut"
(1876) Mark Twain Characters, themes, literary devices |
CHARACTERS: a man and his conscience
THEMES: we are slaves to our conscience LITERARY DEVICES: conscience personified as a taunting manikin pygmy; farce |
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"How to Tell a Story"
(1895) Mark Twain 3 version of storytelling and the THM |
3 stories: The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter.
THM: The simplicity and innocence and sincerity and unconsciousness of the old farmer telling a humorous story are perfectly simulated (suggesting that comic and wit are inauthentic) |
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"Declaration of Independence" THOMAS JEFFERSON |
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NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA Thomas Jefferson |
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THE ADULATEUR Mercy Otis Warren |
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THE GROUP Mercy Otis Warren |
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WIELAND Charles Brockden Brown |
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EDGAR HUNTLY Charles Brockden Brown |
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THE SKETCH BOOK Washington Irving |
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THE COQUETTE Hannah Foster |
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THE PIONEERS James Fenimore Cooper |
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THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS James Fenimore Cooper |
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HOPE LESLIE Catharine Sedgwick |
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poems William Cullen Bryant |
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LECTURES ON POETRY William Cullen Bryant |
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APPEAL TO THE COLORED CITIZENS OF THE WORLD David Walker |
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Maria Stewart |
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A SON OF THE FOREST William Apess |
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"An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man" William Apess |
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A NEW HOME, WHO'LL FOLLOW Caroline Kirkland |
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NATURE Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"The American Scholar" Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"The Divinity School Address" Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"Man the Reformer" Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"Self-Reliance" Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"Circles" Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"The Poet" Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"Experience" Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"Fate" Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS Frederick Douglass |
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"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July" Frederick Douglass |
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"The Heroic Slave" Frederick Douglass |
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MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM Frederick Douglass |
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WALDEN Henry David Thoreau |
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"Walking" Henry David Thoreau |
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"Slavery in Massachusetts" Henry David Thoreau |
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"Life without Principle" Henry David Thoreau |
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"A Plea for Captain John Brown" Henry David Thoreau |
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"Hymn to the Night" Henry Wordsworth Longfellow |
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"The Jewish Cemetery at Newport" Henry Wordsworth Longfellow |
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"My Lost Youth" Henry Wordsworth Longfellow |
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"Building of the Ship" Henry Wordsworth Longfellow |
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"The Broken Oar" Henry Wordsworth Longfellow |
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"Dante" Henry Wordsworth Longfellow |
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"Keats" Henry Wordsworth Longfellow |
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"The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls" Henry Wordsworth Longfellow |
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"The Cross of Snow" Henry Wordsworth Longfellow |
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41.j.
"Snowbound" John Greenleaf Whittier |
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41.k.
"Ichabod" John Greenleaf Whittier |
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41.l.
"Laus Deo" John Greenleaf Whittier |
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41.m.
"Telling the Bees" John Greenleaf Whittier |
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41.n.
"Fable for Critics" James Russell Lowell |
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41.o.
"The Cathedral" James Russell Lowell |
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41.p.
Lydia Huntley Sigourney |
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41.q.
Elizabeth Oakes Smith |
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41.r.
Frances Osgood |
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42.a.
"Dreams" Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.b.
"Spirits of the Dead" Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.c.
"Evening Star" Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.d.
"A dream Within a Dream" Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.e.
"In Youth I have Known" Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.f.
"A Dream" Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.g.
"The Happiest Day—- The Happiest Hour" Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.h.
"The Lake ---To" Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.i.
"Sonnet—- To Science" Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.j.
"To: 'The Bowers Whereat, In Dreams I See'" Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.i.
"Fairy-Land" (1829, 1845) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.j.
"Introduction" (1829-1831) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.k.
"Alone" (1829) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.l.
"To Helen" (1831, 1845) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.m.
"Israfel" (1831-1845) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.n.
"The City in the Sea" (1831-1845) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.o.
"The Sleeper" (1831, 1849) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.p.
"The Valley of Unrest" (1831-1845) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.q.
"Lenore" (1831-1843) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.r.
"To One in Paradise" (1833-1849) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.s.
"The Coliseum" (1833, 1850) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.t.
"The Haunted Palace" (1838-1848) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.u.
"Sonnet--Silence" (1839-1845) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.v.
"The Conqueror Worm" (1842-1849) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.w.
"Dream-Land" (1844-1849) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.x.
"The Raven" (1845-1849) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.y.
"Ulalume-- A Ballad" (1847-1849) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.z.
"The Bells" (1849) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.aa.
"Eldorado" (1849) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.bb.
"For Annie" (1849) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.cc.
"Annabel Lee" (1849) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.dd.
"Loss of Breath: A Tale a la Blackwood" (1832, 1835) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.ee.
"Berenice" (1835, 1845) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.ff.
"Ligeia" (1838, 1845) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.gg.
"How to Write a Blackwood Article. A Predicament" (1838, 1845) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.hh.
"The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839, 1845) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.ii.
"William Wilson" (1839, 1845) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.jj.
"The Man of the Crowd" (1840, 1845) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.kk.
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841, 1845) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.ll.
"A Descent into the Maelstrom" (1841, 1845) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.mm.
"The Pit and the Pendulum" (1842, 1845) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.nn.
"The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843, 1845) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.oo.
"The Gold-Bug" () Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.pp.
"The Premature Burial" (1844, 1845) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.qq.
"The Purloined Letter" (1844, 1845) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.rr.
"The Imp of the Perverse" (1845, 1846) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.ss.
"The Facts of the Case of M. Valdemar" (1845) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.tt.
"The Cask of the Amontillado" (1846) Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.uu.
"Letter to B--" () Edgar Allan Poe |
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42.vv.
"The Philosophy of Composition" (1846) Edgar Allan Poe |
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43.a.
"Roger Malvin's Burial" () Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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43.b.
"My Kinsman, Major Molineux" () Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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43.c.
"Young Goodman Brown" () Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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43.d.
"Wakefield" () Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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43.e.
"The Minister's Black Veil" () Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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43.f.
"The Maypole of Merry-Mount" () Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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43.g.
"The Birthmark" () Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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43.h.
"Egotism, or the Bosom Serpent" () Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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43.i.
"The Celestial Railroad" () Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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43.j.
"The Artist of the Beautiful" () Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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43.k.
"Rappaccini's Daughter" () Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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43.l.
"Ethan Brand" () Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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44.
THE SCARLET LETTER () Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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45.
THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES () Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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46.
THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE () Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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47.
MOBY-DICK () Herman Melville |
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48.
PIERRE () Herman Melville |
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49.a.
"Hawthorne and His Mosses" () Herman Melville |
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49.b.
"Bartleby the Scrivener" () Herman Melville |
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49.c.
"Benito Cereno" () Herman Melville |
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50.
BILLY BUDD, SAILOR () Herman Melville |
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51.
THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD () Susan Warner |
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53.
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN () Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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54.
CLOTEL, OR THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER () William Wells Brown |
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55.
THE BONDWOMAN'S NARRATIVE () Hannah Crafts |
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56.
BLAKE () Martin Delaney |
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57.
OUR NIG () Harriet Wilson |
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58.
INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL () Harriet Jacobs |
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59.
BEHIND THE SCENES: OR, THIRTY YEARS A SLAVE, AND FOUR YEARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE () Elizabeth Keckley |
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60.a.
"Preface" to LEAVES OF GRASS (1855) Walt Whitman |
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60.b.
A BACKWARD GLANCE O'ER TRAVELED ROADS () Walt Whitman |
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60.c.
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS () Walt Whitman |
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61.a.
"Starting from Paumanok" LEAVES OF GRASS (1855) Walt Whitman |
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61.b.
SONG OF MYSELF, LEAVES OF GRASS (1855) Walt Whitman |
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61.c.
SONG OF MYSELF, LEAVES OF GRASS (1892--Deathbed Edition) Walt Whitman |
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61.d.
"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," LEAVES OF GRASS () Walt Whitman |
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61.e.
"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," LEAVES OF GRASS () Walt Whitman |
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61.f.
"As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life," LEAVES OF GRASS () Walt Whitman |
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61.g.
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," LEAVES OF GRASS () Walt Whitman |
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61.h.
"Passage to India," LEAVES OF GRASS () Walt Whitman |
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61.i.
"Passage to India," LEAVES OF GRASS (1892--Deathbed Edition) Walt Whitman |
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61.j.
CHILDREN OF ADAM () Walt Whitman |
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61.k.
CALAMUS () Walt Whitman |
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61.l.
DRUM-TAPS () Walt Whitman |
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62.
Emily Dickinson |
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63.a.
"The Outcasts of Poker Flat" () Bret Harte |
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63.b.
"The Luck of Roaring Camp" () Bret Harte |
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63.c.
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" () Ambrose Bierce |
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63.d.
"Circumstance" () Harriet Prescott Spofford |
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63.e.
"The Amber Gods" () Harriet Prescott Spofford |
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64.a.
"Life in the Iron Mills" () Rebecca Harding Davis |
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64.b.
THE SILENT PARTNER () Elizabeth Stuart Phelps |
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65.a.
"Belles Demoiselles Plantation" () George Washington Cable |
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65.b.
"Free Joe and the Rest of the World" () Joel Chandler Harris |
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65.c.
"Marse Chan" () Thomas Nelson Page |
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65.d.
"No Haid Pawn" () Thomas Nelson Page |
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65.e.
"Meh Lady: A Story of the War" () Thomas Nelson Page |
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66.a.
"The Celebrated Jumping Frong of Calaveras County" () Mark Twain |
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66.b.
"A True Story" () Mark Twain |
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66.c.
"The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut" () Mark Twain |
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66.d.
"The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg" () Mark Twain |
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66.e.
"How to Tell a Story" () Mark Twain |
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66.f.
"To the Person Sitting in Darkness" () Mark Twain |
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67.
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN () Mark Twain |
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A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT () Mark Twain |
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PUDD'NHEAD WILSON () Mark Twain |
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70.
NO.44, THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER () Mark Twain |
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71.
THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS () Henry Adams |
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A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES () William Dean Howells |
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73.
THE RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM () William Dean Howells |
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74.a.
CRITICISM AND FICTION () William Dean Howells |
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74.b.
CRUMBLING IDOLS () Hamlin Garland |
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74.c.
"On Southern Fiction" () George Washington Cable |
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74.d.
"The Art of Fiction" () Henry James |
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75.
THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY () Henry James |
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76.
THE BOSTONIANS () Henry James |
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77.
THE AMBASSADORS () Henry James |
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78.
"Hawthorne" () Henry James |
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79.
LOOKING BACKWARD () Edward Bellamy |
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82.
THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE () Stephen Crane |
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84.a.
THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS () Sarah Orne Jewett |
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84.b.
"A White Heron" () Sarah Orne Jewett |
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85.a.
"The Yellow Wallpaper" () Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
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85.b.
"A New England Nun" () Mary E. Wilkins Freeman |
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85.c.
"Louisa" () Mary E. Wilkins Freeman |
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85.d.
"The Revolt of Mother" () Mary E. Wilkins Freeman |
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85.e.
"One Good Time" () Mary E. Wilkins Freeman |
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85.f.
"Old Woman Magoun" () Mary E. Wilkins Freeman |
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86.a.
"Flammonde" () Edwin Arlington Robinson |
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86.b.
"Luke Havergal" () Edwin Arlington Robinson |
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86.c.
"Richard Cory" () Edwin Arlington Robinson |
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86.d.
"Cliff Clingenhagen" () Edwin Arlington Robinson |
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86.e.
"Miniver Cheevy" () Edwin Arlington Robinson |
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86.f.
"Bewick Finzer" () Edwin Arlington Robinson |
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86.g.
"As it Looked Then" () Edwin Arlington Robinson |
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86.h.
"Eros Turannos" () Edwin Arlington Robinson |
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86.i.
"Mr. Flood's Part" () Edwin Arlington Robinson |
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86.j.
"Cassandra" () Edwin Arlington Robinson |
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86.k.
Sarah Piatt |
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87.
THE AWAKENING () Kate Chopin |
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88.a.
THE CONJURE WOMAN () Charles Chesnutt |
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88.b.
"The Wife of his Youth" () Charles Chesnutt |
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88.c.
"The Passing of Grandison" () Charles Chesnutt |
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89.
THE MARROW OF TRADITION () Charles Chesnutt |
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90.
CONTENDING FORCES () Pauline Hopkins |
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91.a.
"To Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe" POEMS ON MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS () Frances Ellen Watkins Harper |
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91.b.
"The Syropheneician Woman" POEMS ON MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS () Frances Ellen Watkins Harper |
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91.c.
"The Slave Mother" POEMS ON MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS () Frances Ellen Watkins Harper |
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91.d.
"Eliza Harris" POEMS ON MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS () Frances Ellen Watkins Harper |
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91.e.
"Aunt Chloe" SKETCHES OF SOUTHERN LIFE () Frances Ellen Watkins Harper |
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91.f.
IOLA LEROY () Frances Ellen Watkins Harper |
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92.
A VOICE FROM THE SOUTH () Anna Cooper |
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93.
McTEAGUE () Frank Norris |
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94.
THE OCTOPUS () Frank Norris |
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95.a.
"Responsibilities of the Novelist" () Frank Norris |
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95.b.
"A Plea for Romantic Fiction" () Frank Norris |
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96.
SISTER CARRIE () Theodore Dreiser |
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97.
UP FROM SLAVERY () Booker T. Washington |
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