Late 19th Century American Literature

  late 19th century american literature: The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-century American Literature Jonathan Senchyne, 2020 The true scale of paper production in America from 1690 through the end of the nineteenth century was staggering, with a range of parties participating in different ways, from farmers growing flax to textile workers weaving cloth and from housewives saving rags to peddlers collecting them. Making a bold case for the importance of printing and paper technology in the study of early American literature, Jonathan Senchyne presents archival evidence of the effects of this very visible process on American writers, such as Anne Bradstreet, Herman Melville, Lydia Sigourney, William Wells Brown, and other lesser-known figures. The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature reveals that book history and literary studies are mutually constitutive and proposes a new literary periodization based on materiality and paper production. In unpacking this history and connecting it to cultural and literary representations, Senchyne also explores how the textuality of paper has been used to make social and political claims about gender, labor, and race.
  late 19th century american literature: Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Steven Petersheim, Madison Jones IV, 2015-09-17 The nineteenth-century roots of environmental writing in American literature are often mentioned in passing and sometimes studied piece by piece. Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature brings together numerous explorations of environmentally-aware writing across the genres of nineteenth-century literature. Like Lawrence Buell, the authors of this collection find Thoreau’s writing a touchstone of nineteenth-century environmental writing, particularly focusing on Thoreau’s claim that humans may function as “scribes of nature.” However, these studies of Thoreau’s antecedents, contemporaries, and successors also reveal a range of other writers in the nineteenth century whose literary treatments of nature are often more environmentally attuned than most readers have noticed. The writers whose works are studied in this collection include canonical and forgotten writers, men and women, early nineteenth-century and late nineteenth-century authors, pioneers and conservationists. They drew attention to the conflicted relationships between humans and the American continent, as experienced by Native Americans and European Americans. Taken together, these essays offer a fresh perspective on the roots of environmental literature in nineteenth-century American nonfiction, fiction, and poetry as well as in multi-genre compositions such as the travel writings of Margaret Fuller. Bringing largely forgotten voices such as John Godman alongside canonical voices such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson, the authors whose writings are studied in this collection produced a diverse tapestry of nascent American environmental writing in the nineteenth-century. From early nineteenth-century writers such as poet Philip Freneau and novelist Charles Brockden Brown to later nineteenth-century conservationists such as John James Audubon and John Muir, Scribes of Nature shows the development of an environmental consciousness and a growing conservationist ethos in American literature. Given their often surprisingly healthy respect for the natural environment, these nineteenth-century writers offer us much to consider in an age of environmental crisis. The complexities of the supposed nature/culture divide still work into our lives today as economic and environmental issues are often seen at loggerheads when they ought to be seen as part of the same conversation of what it means to live healthy lives, and to pass on a healthy world to those who follow us in a world where human activity is becoming increasingly threatening to the health of our planet.
  late 19th century american literature: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War Cody Marrs, 2015-07-22 Nineteenth-century American literature is often divided into two asymmetrical halves, neatly separated by the Civil War. Focusing on the later writings of Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson, this book shows how the war took shape across the nineteenth century, inflecting literary forms for decades after 1865.
  late 19th century american literature: Lightning Lit and Comp Elizabeth Kamath, 2011
  late 19th century american literature: The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature Russ Castronovo, 2012-01-12 How do we approach the rich field of nineteenth-century American literature? How might we recalibrate the coordinates of critical vision and open up new areas of investigation? To answer such questions, this volume brings together 23 original essays written by leading scholars in American literary studies. By examining specific novels, poems, essays, diaries and other literary examples, the authors confront head-on the implications, scope, and scale of their analysis. The chapters foreground methodological concerns to assess the challenges of transnational perspectives, disability studies, environmental criticism, affect studies, gender analysis, and other cutting-edge approaches. The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature is thus both critically incisive and sharply practical, inviting attention to how readers read, how critics critique, and how interpreters interpret. It offers forceful strategies for rethinking protest novels, women's writing, urban literature, slave narratives, and popular fiction, just to name a few of the wide array of topics and genres covered. This volume, rather than surveying established ideas in studies of nineteenth-century American literature, registers what is happening now and anticipates what will shape the field's future.
  late 19th century american literature: At Home in the City Elizabeth Klimasmith, 2005 A lucidly written analysis of urban literature and evolving residential architecture.
  late 19th century american literature: Indian Nation Cheryl Walker, 1997 Walker examines the rhetoric and writings of nineteenth-century Native Americans, including William Apess, Black Hawk, George Copway, John Rollin Ridge, and Sarah Winnemucca. Demonstrating with unique detail how these authors worked to transform venerable myths and icons of American identity, Indian Nation chronicles Native American participation in the forming of an American nationalism in both published texts and speeches that were delivered throughout the United States. Pottawattomie Chief Simon Pokagon's The Red Man's Rebuke, an important document of Indian oratory, is published here in its entirety for the first time since 1893.
  late 19th century american literature: Democracy Henry Adams, 2010-09-01 Originally published anonymously, it was later revealed that this classic work of political fiction was penned by Henry Brooks Adams, the renowned essayist and journalist best known for the autobiography The Education of Henry Adams. Though fictionalized, Democracy: An American Novel offers a gripping account of the vagaries and vicissitudes of political power that still rings true more than a century after it was first published.
  late 19th century american literature: Sentimental Materialism Lori Merish, 2000 Examines the constructions of feminine consumption in the nineteenth century in relation to capitalism and domesticity.
  late 19th century american literature: E Pluribus Unum W. C. Harris, 2005-06-15 Out of many, one. But how do the many become one without sacrificing difference or autonomy? . The premise of this book is that American writers of the time came to view the resolution of this central philosophical problem as no longer the exclusive province of legislative or judicial documents but capable of being addressed by literary texts as well.
  late 19th century american literature: Danger and Vulnerability in Nineteenth-century American Literature Jennifer Travis, 2018-03-12 Nineteenth-Century Americans saw danger lurking everywhere: in railway cars and trolleys, fireplaces and floods, and amid social and political movements, from the abolition of slavery to suffrage. After the Civil War, Americans were shaken by financial panic and a volatile post-slave economy. They were awe-struck and progressively alarmed by technological innovations that promised speed and commercial growth, but also posed unprecedented physical hazard. Most of all, Americans were uncertain, particularly in light of environmental disasters like hurricanes and wildfires, about their own city on a hill and the once indisputable and protective hand of a beneficent God. The disasters, accidents, and social and political upheavals that characterized nineteenth-century culture had enormous explanatory power, metaphoric and real. Today we speak of similar insecurities: financial, informational, environmental, and political, and we obsessively express our worry and fear for the future. Cultural theorist Paul Virilio refers to these feelings as the “threat horizon,” one that endlessly identifies and produces new dangers.Why, he asks, does it seem easier for humanity to imagine a future shaped by ever-deadlier accidents than a decent future? Danger and Vulnerability in Nineteenth Century American Literature; or, Crash and Burn American invites readers to examine the “threat horizon” through its nascent expression in literary and cultural history. Against the emerging rhetoric of danger in the long nineteenth century, this book examines how a vocabulary of vulnerability in the American imaginary promoted the causes of the structurally disempowered in new and surprising ways, often seizing vulnerability as the grounds for progressive insight. The texts at the heart of this study, from nineteenth-century sensation novels to early twentieth-century journalistic fiction, imagine spectacular collisions, terrifying conflagrations, and all manner of catastrophe, social, political, and environmental. Together they write against illusions of inviolability in a growing technological and managerial culture, and they imagine how the recognition of universal vulnerability may challenge normative representations of social, political, and economic marginality.
  late 19th century american literature: Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist Charles Brockden Brown, 2011-09-01 Imagine being able to perfectly imitate the voice of any man, woman or child. That's the remarkable talent that the young Carwin discovers and cultivates in himself. For the most part, Carwin uses his skills for noble ends. Will he be tempted to talk his way into a life of crime? Read Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist to find out.
  late 19th century american literature: Nineteenth-Century American Activist Rhetorics Patricia Bizzell, Lisa Zimmerelli, 2020-12-15 In the nineteenth century the United States was ablaze with activism and reform: people of all races, creeds, classes, and genders engaged with diverse intellectual, social, and civic issues. This cutting-edge, revelatory book focuses on rhetoric that is overtly political and oriented to social reform. It not only contributes to our historical understanding of the period by covering a wide array of contexts--from letters, preaching, and speeches to labor organizing, protests, journalism, and theater by white and Black women, Indigenous people, and Chinese immigrants--but also relates conflicts over imperialism, colonialism, women's rights, temperance, and slavery to today's struggles over racial justice, sexual freedom, access to multimodal knowledge, and the unjust effects of sociopolitical hierarchies. The editors' introduction traces recent scholarship on activist rhetorics and the turn in rhetorical theory toward the work of marginalized voices calling for radical social change.
  late 19th century american literature: Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present Amy Berke, Robert Bleil, Jordan Cofer, Doug Davis, 2023-12-01 In 'Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present,' editors Amy Berke, Robert Bleil, Jordan Cofer, and Doug Davis curate a comprehensive exploration of American literary evolution from the aftermath of the Civil War to contemporary times. This anthology expertly weaves a tapestry of diverse literary styles and themes, encapsulating the dynamic shifts in American culture and identity. Through carefully selected works, the collection illustrates the rich dialogue between historical contexts and literary expression, showcasing seminal pieces that have shaped American literatures landscape. The diversity of periods and perspectives offers readers a panoramic view of the countrys literary heritage, making it a significant compilation for scholars and enthusiasts alike. The contributing authors and editors, each with robust backgrounds in American literature, bring to the table a depth of scholarly expertise and a passion for the subject matter. Their collective work reflects a broad spectrum of American life and thought, aligning with major historical and cultural movements from Realism and Modernism to Postmodernism. This anthology not only marks the evolution of American literary forms and themes but also mirrors the nations complex history and diverse narratives. 'Writing the Nation' is an essential volume for those who wish to delve into the heart of American literature. It offers readers a unique opportunity to experience the multitude of voices, styles, and themes that have shaped the countrys literary tradition. This collection represents an invaluable resource for students, scholars, and anyone interested in the development of American literature and the cultural forces that have influenced it. The anthology invites readers to engage with the vibrant dialogue among its pages, fostering a deeper understanding and appreciation of the United States' literary and cultural heritage.
  late 19th century american literature: Queer Cowboys C. Packard, 2016-04-30 Why do the earliest representations of cowboy-figures symbolizing the highest ideals of manhood in American culture exclude male-female desire while promoting homosocial and homoerotic bonds? Evidence from the best-known Western writers and artists of the post-Civil War period - Owen Wister, Mark Twain, Frederic Remington, George Catlin - as well as now-forgotten writers, illustrators, and photographers, suggest that in the period before the word 'homosexual' and its synonyms were invented, same-sex intimacy and erotic admiration were key aspects of a masculine code. These males-only clubs of journalists, cowboys, miners, Indian vaqueros defined themselves by excluding femininity and the cloying ills of domesticity, while embracing what Roosevelt called 'strenuous living' with other bachelors in the relative 'purity' of wilderness conditions. Queer Cowboys recovers this forgotten culture of exclusively masculine, sometimes erotic, and often intimate camaraderie in fiction, photographs, illustrations, song lyrics, historical ephemera, and theatrical performances.
  late 19th century american literature: Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life Bert James Loewenberg, Ruth Bogin, 2010-11-01
  late 19th century american literature: American Literature and the Long Downturn Dan Sinykin, 2020-02-20 Apocalypse shapes the experience of millions of Americans. Not because they face imminent cataclysm, however true this is, but because apocalypse is a story they tell themselves. It offers a way out of an otherwise irredeemably unjust world. Adherence to it obscures that it is a story, rather than a description of reality. And it is old. Since its origins among Jewish writers in the first centuries BCE, apocalypse has recurred as a tempting and available form through which to express a sense of hopelessness. Why has it appeared with such force in the US now? What does it mean? This book argues that to find the meaning of our apocalyptic times we need to look at the economics of the last five decades, from the end of the postwar boom. After historian Robert Brenner, this volume calls this period the long downturn. Though it might seem abstract, the economics of the long downturn worked its way into the most intimate experiences of everyday life, including the fear that there would be no tomorrow, and this fear takes the form of 'neoliberal apocalypse'. The varieties of neoliberal apocalypse--horror at the nation's commitment to a racist, exclusionary economic system; resentment about threats to white supremacy; apprehension that the nation has unleashed a violence that will consume it; claustrophobia within the limited scripts of neoliberalism; suffocation under the weight of debt--together form the discordant chord that hums under American life in the twenty-first century. For many of us, for different reasons, it feels like the end is coming soon and this book explores how we came to this, and what it has meant for literature.
  late 19th century american literature: A World Not to Come Raœl Coronado, 2013-06-01 In 1808 Napoleon invaded Spain and deposed the king. Overnight, Hispanics were forced to confront modernity and look beyond monarchy and religion for new sources of authority. Coronado focuses on how Texas Mexicans used writing to remake the social fabric in the midst of war and how a Latino literary and intellectual life was born in the New World.
  late 19th century american literature: Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Dawn Keetley, Matthew Sivils, 2017-11-15 First Published in 2017. The first of its kind to address the ecogothic in American literature, this collection of fourteen articles illuminates a new and provocative literacy category, one that exists at the crossroads of the gothic and the environmental imagination, of fear and the ecosystems we inhabit.
  late 19th century american literature: The Gilded Age Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, 1904
  late 19th century american literature: The Biglow Papers James Russell Lowell, 1866
  late 19th century american literature: Schooling Readers Allison Speicher, 2016-07-15 Schooling Readers takes up a largely unexplored genre of fiction, the common school narrative, popular between 1830 and 1890. These stories both propagate and challenge the myth of the idyllic one-room school, and reveal Americans' perceptions of and anxieties about public education, many of which still resonate today.
  late 19th century american literature: Literary Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Edward Woodberry, 1921
  late 19th century american literature: Photography in Nineteenth-century America Alan Trachtenberg, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1991 Analyse: Contributions de Barbara MacAndless, Keith F. Davis, Peter Bacon Hales, Sarah Greenhough.
  late 19th century american literature: Sentimentalism in Nineteenth-Century America Mary G. De Jong, 2013-06-07 Sentimentalism emerged in eighteenth-century Europe as a moral philosophy founded on the belief that individuals are able to form relationships and communities because they can, by an effort of the imagination, understand one another’s feelings. American authors of both sexes who accepted these views cultivated readers’ sympathy with others in order to promote self-improvement, motivate action to relieve suffering, reinforce social unity, and build national identity. Entwined with domesticity and imperialism and finding expression in literature and in public and private rituals, sentimentalism became America’s dominant ideology by the early nineteenth century. Sentimental writings and practices had political uses, some reformist and some repressive. They played major roles in the formation of bourgeois consciousness. The first new collection of scholarly essays on American sentimentalism since 1999, this volume brings together ten recent studies, eight published here for the first time. The Introduction assesses the current state of sentimentalism studies; the Afterword reflects on sentimentalism as a liberal discourse central to contemporary political thought as well as literary studies. Other contributors, exploring topics characteristic of the field today, examine nineteenth-century authors’ treatments of education, grief, social inequalities, intimate relationships, and community. This volume has several distinctive features. It illustrates sentimentalism’s appropriation of an array of literary forms (advice literature, personal narrative, and essays on education and urban poverty as well as poetry and the novel) objects (memorial volumes), and cultural practices (communal singing, benevolence). It includes four essays on poetry, less frequently studied than fiction. It identifies internal contradictions that eventually fractured sentimentalism’s viability as a belief system—yet suggests that the protean sentimental mode accommodated itself to revisionary and ironized literary uses, thus persisting long after twentieth-century critics pronounced it a casualty of the Civil War. This collection also offers fresh perspectives on three esteemed authors not usually classified as sentimentalists—Sarah Piatt, Walt Whitman, and Henry James—thus demonstrating that sentimental topics and techniques informed “realism” and “modernism” as they emerged Offering close readings of nineteenth-century American texts and practices, this book demonstrates both the limits of sentimentalism and its wide and lasting influence.
  late 19th century american literature: The Hidden Hand Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitt Southworth, 1859
  late 19th century american literature: Life in the Iron-Mills Rebecca Harding Davis, 2016-05-28 Before Women Had Rights, They Worked - Regardless. Life in the Iron Mills is a short story (or novella) written by Rebecca Harding Davis in 1861, set in the factory world of the nineteenth century. It is one of the earliest American realist works, and is an important text for those who study labor and women's issues. It was immediately recognized as an innovative work, and introduced American readers to the bleak lives of industrial workers in the mills and factories of the nation. Reviews: Life in the Iron Mills was initially published in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 0007, Issue 42 in April 1861. After being published anonymously, both Emily Dickinson and Nathaniel Hawthorne praised the work. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward was also greatly influenced by Davis's Life in the Iron Mills and in 1868 published in The Atlantic MonthlyThe Tenth of January, based on the 1860 fire at the Pemberton Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Get Your Copy Now.
  late 19th century american literature: The Purple Decades Tom Wolfe, 1982-10 This collection of Wolfe's essays, articles, and chapters from previous collections is filled with observations on U.S. popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s.
  late 19th century american literature: Beloved Toni Morrison, 2006-10-17 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present. Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.
  late 19th century american literature: American Protest Literature Zoe Trodd, 2008-04-30 ÒI like a little rebellion now and thenÓÑso wrote Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, enlisting in a tradition that throughout American history has led writers to rage and reason, prophesy and provoke. This is the first anthology to collect and examine an American literature that holds the nation to its highest ideals, castigating it when it falls short and pointing the way to a better collective future. American Protest Literature presents sources from eleven protest movementsÑpolitical, social, and culturalÑfrom the Revolution to abolition to gay rights to antiwar protest. Each section reprints documents from the original phase of the movement as well as evidence of its legacy in later times. Informative headnotes place the selections in historical context and draw connections with other writings within the anthology and beyond. Sources include a wide variety of genresÑpamphlets, letters, speeches, sermons, legal documents, poems, short stories, photographs, postersÑand a range of voices from prophetic to outraged to sorrowful, from U.S. Presidents to the disenfranchised. Together they provide an enlightening and inspiring survey of this most American form of literature.
  late 19th century american literature: The Norton Anthology of American Literature Nina Baym, 2003 Includes outstanding works of American poetry, prose, and fiction from the Colonial era to the present day.
  late 19th century american literature: The Best American Mystery Stories of the 19th Century Otto Penzler, 2014 An unparalleled treasury of American 19th century mystery fiction selected and introduced by Otto Penzler.
  late 19th century american literature: The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers Hollis Robbins, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 2017-07-25 A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2017. The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: an extraordinary range of voices offering the expressions of African American women in print before, during, and after the Civil War. Edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this collection comprises work from forty-nine writers arranged into sections of memoir, poetry, and essays on feminism, education, and the legacy of African American women writers. Many of these pieces engage with social movements like abolition, women’s suffrage, temperance, and civil rights, but the thematic center is the intellect and personal ambition of African American women. The diverse selection includes well-known writers like Sojourner Truth, Hannah Crafts, and Harriet Jacobs, as well as lesser-known writers like Ella Sheppard, who offers a firsthand account of life in the world-famous Fisk Jubilee Singers. Taken together, these incredible works insist that the writing of African American women writers be read, remembered, and addressed. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
  late 19th century american literature: Writing the Environment Richard Kerridge, Neil Sammells, 1998-03-15 The contributors to this critique of the modern world write about a range of environment-related issues and assess the impact of a variety of groups on popular culture. They see the environmental crisis as the limit of postmodernism.
  late 19th century american literature: Asian-American Literature Shirley Lim, 2000
  late 19th century american literature: Replotting Marriage in Nineteenth-century British Literature Jill Nicole Galvan, 2018-06 Top scholars in Victorian studies reexamine questions about marriage and the marriage plot from cutting-edge perspectives.
  late 19th century american literature: American Literature from the 1850s to 1945 Adam Augustyn Assistant Manager and Assistant Editor, Literature, 2010-08-15 Explores the works, writers, and movements that shaped the American literary canon from the end of the nineteenth century through the first half of the twentith.
  late 19th century american literature: The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics John D. Kerkering, 2024-06-30 This volume addresses the political contexts in which nineteenth-century American literature was conceived, consumed, and criticized. It shows how a variety of literary genres and forms, such as poetry, drama, fiction, oratory, and nonfiction, engaged with political questions and participated in political debate.
  late 19th century american literature: Encyclopaedia Britannica Hugh Chisholm, 1910 This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
  late 19th century american literature: Benito Cereno Herman Melville, 2024
19th Century American Literature - Saint Louis University
Below is a chronological list of "canonical" American literary texts published since 1900. The faculty expects students to both study these works and be able to place them within a literary movement, such as Naturalism, Imagism, The Harlem Renaissance,

19th Century American Literature - Saint Louis University
19th Century American Literature The following list of literary and critical works, ranging from the beginning of the nineteenth century and into the first decade of the twentieth, is designed with …

LITERATURE AND POLITICS NINETEENTH-CENTURY …
literature was conceived, consumed, and criticized. Individual chapters examine how US literature from this period engaged with broad political concepts and urgent political issues, such as …

Literary Movements/Periods
Technically, realism refers to a late-19th-century literary movement—primarily French, English, and American—that aimed at accurate detailed portrayal of ordinary, contemporary life. Many …

THE DEVELOPMENT OF REALISM IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
During the late 19th century, and into the 20th century artists and musicians contributed to the idea of realism in the American setting. Each, though slightly different in concept or subject, …

Nineteenth-Century American Novel - Cambridge University …
Gregg Crane tells the story of the American novel from its beginnings in the early republic to the end of the nineteenth century. Treating the famous and many less well-known works, Crane …

It’s a Cu’ous Thing ter Me, Suh’: The Distinctive Narrative …
American literature and verse advanced in dialectal writing during the late-nineteenth century. Charles Chesnutt’s “The Goophered Grapevine” (1887), “Po’ Sandy” (1888),

THE POLITICS OF ANXIETY IN NINETEENTH CENTURY …
For much of the nineteenth century, the nervous system was a medical mystery, inspiring scientific studies and exciting great public interest. Because of this widespread fascination, the …

Realism, Ideology, and the Novel in America (1886-1896 ... - JSTOR
function of literature in late nineteenth-century American society. Moreover, the changing correlations between the novel and reality and the new de-partures in narrative form constitute …

Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
culture in the nineteenth-century: the aftermath of the American Revolution, Transcendentalism, Indian removal, slavery and abolitionism, the Civil War and its aftermath, immigration, lynching …

th Century: Age, Gender and Spatial Dimensions - Trinity College …
American Literary Output from early 19th to Late 20th Century: Age, Gender and Spatial Dimensions John O’Hagan1 Abstract. This paper examines the evolution of US literary output …

Donald Pizer and the Study of American Literary Naturalism
American Literary Naturalism Stephen C. Brennan, Louisiana State University in Shreveport The decision to dedicate the inaugural issue of Studies in American Natu ralism to Donald Pizer …

IN TRANSITION: THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE
literature evolved as a set of social practices and expressive modalities. The volumes in this series produce fresh characterizations enabled by attention to recent (particularly digital) …

Historical Roots of the Mad Scientist: Chemists in Nineteenth …
My overall thesis is that nineteenth-century writers created the mad scientist as one of four literary responses to the emergence of modern science in general and of chemistry in particular.

Mad Literature: Insane Asylums in Nineteenth-Century America
Nineteenth-century asylums evoke terrible images of dark and dirty cells, shrieking lunatics, horrible experiments, and abusive doctors. The disturbing nature of these impressions is not …

'Suddenly and Shockingly Black': The Atavistic Child in Turn-into …
12 Jun 2007 · 19th-century American fiction and answer to a wide variety of purposes, from the reconciliationist fiction of Lydia Maria Child, whose Romance of the Republic (1867) offers a …

MENTAL ILLNESS AND FEMININITY IN LATE NINETEENTH …
MENTAL ILLNESS AND FEMININITY IN LATE NINETEENTH-EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY ANGLO-AMERICAN LITERATURE Bianca Basone This thesis attempts to prove that the …

GEOGRAPHY AND THE PRODUCTION OF SPACE IN …
In Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Hsuan L. Hsu examines how literature represents different kinds of spaces ranging from the single …

Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America: Behavior, Ideology
By the late nineteenth century, increasingly autonomous young adults engaged in premarital sex and used contraceptive devices, indicating a new willingness to separate sexuality and …

African American Literary Reconstructions and the Propaganda of …
And even though Roark Mulligan s essay Late-19th-Century Literature in the most recent volume of American Literary Scholarship (covering 2015 and published in 2017) does suggest that …

19th Century American Literature - Saint Louis University
Below is a chronological list of "canonical" American literary texts published since 1900. The faculty expects students to both study these works and be able to place them within a literary movement, such as Naturalism, Imagism, The Harlem Renaissance,

19th Century American Literature - Saint Louis University
19th Century American Literature The following list of literary and critical works, ranging from the beginning of the nineteenth century and into the first decade of the twentieth, is designed with two general goals in mind.

LITERATURE AND POLITICS NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN
literature was conceived, consumed, and criticized. Individual chapters examine how US literature from this period engaged with broad political concepts and urgent political issues, such as liberalism, conser-vatism, radicalism, nationalism, communitarianism, sovereignty, reli-gious liberty, partisanship and factionalism, slavery, segregation, i...

Literary Movements/Periods
Technically, realism refers to a late-19th-century literary movement—primarily French, English, and American—that aimed at accurate detailed portrayal of ordinary, contemporary life. Many of the 19th century’s greatest novelists, such as Honoré de

THE DEVELOPMENT OF REALISM IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
During the late 19th century, and into the 20th century artists and musicians contributed to the idea of realism in the American setting. Each, though slightly different in concept or subject, was defining what was going on in front of his or her eyes, without imagining a past or a future.

Nineteenth-Century American Novel - Cambridge University …
Gregg Crane tells the story of the American novel from its beginnings in the early republic to the end of the nineteenth century. Treating the famous and many less well-known works, Crane discusses the genre’s major figures, themes, and developments.

It’s a Cu’ous Thing ter Me, Suh’: The Distinctive Narrative …
American literature and verse advanced in dialectal writing during the late-nineteenth century. Charles Chesnutt’s “The Goophered Grapevine” (1887), “Po’ Sandy” (1888),

THE POLITICS OF ANXIETY IN NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE
For much of the nineteenth century, the nervous system was a medical mystery, inspiring scientific studies and exciting great public interest. Because of this widespread fascination, the nerves came to explain the means by which mind and body related to each other.

Realism, Ideology, and the Novel in America (1886-1896 ... - JSTOR
function of literature in late nineteenth-century American society. Moreover, the changing correlations between the novel and reality and the new de-partures in narrative form constitute a process which, emphatically, does not begin in 1886 and does not end in, …

Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
culture in the nineteenth-century: the aftermath of the American Revolution, Transcendentalism, Indian removal, slavery and abolitionism, the Civil War and its aftermath, immigration, lynching and Jim Crow, Pragmatism, and imperialism. We will examine the ways in which literature was a part of culture, the ways literature represented culture,

th Century: Age, Gender and Spatial Dimensions - Trinity …
American Literary Output from early 19th to Late 20th Century: Age, Gender and Spatial Dimensions John O’Hagan1 Abstract. This paper examines the evolution of US literary output in terms of four factors relating to its main authors: their geographic location and migration patterns over almost two

Donald Pizer and the Study of American Literary Naturalism - JSTOR
American Literary Naturalism Stephen C. Brennan, Louisiana State University in Shreveport The decision to dedicate the inaugural issue of Studies in American Natu ralism to Donald Pizer was almost inevitable, for his work over the last four decades and more has been central to a renaissance of critical inter est in the subject.

IN TRANSITION: THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE
literature evolved as a set of social practices and expressive modalities. The volumes in this series produce fresh characterizations enabled by attention to recent (particularly digital) methodologies, as well as by examination of nineteenth-century concerns that continue to shape our contemporary world,

Historical Roots of the Mad Scientist: Chemists in Nineteenth-century …
My overall thesis is that nineteenth-century writers created the mad scientist as one of four literary responses to the emergence of modern science in general and of chemistry in particular.

Mad Literature: Insane Asylums in Nineteenth-Century America
Nineteenth-century asylums evoke terrible images of dark and dirty cells, shrieking lunatics, horrible experiments, and abusive doctors. The disturbing nature of these impressions is not unfounded. Abuses and poor conditions in American mental institutions have been well documented. Former patients often published

'Suddenly and Shockingly Black': The Atavistic Child in Turn-into …
12 Jun 2007 · 19th-century American fiction and answer to a wide variety of purposes, from the reconciliationist fiction of Lydia Maria Child, whose Romance of the Republic (1867) offers a model of national

MENTAL ILLNESS AND FEMININITY IN LATE NINETEENTH-EARLY …
MENTAL ILLNESS AND FEMININITY IN LATE NINETEENTH-EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY ANGLO-AMERICAN LITERATURE Bianca Basone This thesis attempts to prove that the diagnosing and treatment of mental illness in Victorian Anglo-American literature was heavily gendered and therefore misogynistic.

GEOGRAPHY AND THE PRODUCTION OF SPACE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN …
In Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Hsuan L. Hsu examines how literature represents different kinds of spaces ranging from the single-family home to the globe.

Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America: Behavior, Ideology
By the late nineteenth century, increasingly autonomous young adults engaged in premarital sex and used contraceptive devices, indicating a new willingness to separate sexuality and reproduction.8

African American Literary Reconstructions and the Propaganda of …
And even though Roark Mulligan s essay Late-19th-Century Literature in the most recent volume of American Literary Scholarship (covering 2015 and published in 2017) does suggest that Investigations that analyze racial representations and racial issues continue strong, with late-19th-century scholars researching