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016.14 TRA
The Transcendentalists : a review of research and criticism.
Offers an introduction to American Transcendentalism, with essays
surveying the Transcendentalist movement, its historical context, its
relationship to Unitarianism, and the communities and periodicals that
helped create it, and brief overviews of the movement's key writers
and their works.
277.3 HAN
Hankins, Barry,. The Second Great Awakening and the Transcendentalists.
The Second Great Awakening : an overview -- Transcendentalism as a
new religious movement -- Charles Finney and the democratic
empowerment of urban revivals -- Revivals and the development of
African American religion in America -- The Second Great Awakening,
Transcendentalism, and the antislavery impulse -- Revivalism and
feminism -- Biographies -- Primary documents. Presents overviews of
two religious movements in early nineteenth-century America,
including the Second Great Awakening and transcendentalism;
examines their effects on American culture; and includes brief
biographies of significant revivalists and transcendentalists, excerpts
from primary documents, and other resources.
709.03 KAL
Kallen, Stuart A,. Romanticism.
Introduction: An artistic movement -- Romance and revolution -- The
German roots of romanticism -- Politics and romance in France -- A
different type of revolution in Great Britain -- Romanticism in the
American wilderness. Presents a brief overview of the development of
Romanticism, its roots and influences on art and literature.
809.911 LEW
Lewis, Pericles. The Cambridge introduction to modernism.
Presents a comprehensive survey of literature and modernist art in
England, Ireland, and Europe during the early twentieth century,
considering works by W. H. Auden, Charles Baudelaire, Samuel
Beckett, Bertolt Brecht, Anton Chekhov, T. S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen,
James Joyce, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and others.
810.8 TRA
Transcendentalism : a reader.
An annotated collection of writings by figures in the nineteenth-century
religious, philosophical, and intellectual movement called
Transcendentalism; includes such writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson,
George Ripley, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau.
810.9 AME
American realism.
Presents an overview of the literary movement known as American
realism, and features fifteen critical articles that offer a definition of
realism, and discuss the rise of naturalism, class, race, and gender in
American realism; national character in American realism; and realism
after 1914.
818.309 OLS
Olson, Steven P. Henry David Thoreau : American naturalist, writer, and
transcendentalist.
A biography of American author, naturalist, and transcendentalist,
Henry David Thoreau, describing his life and literary career, early
works, and the legacy he left behind.
820.9 REF
Refiguring revolutions : aesthetics and politics from the English revolution
to the Romantic revolution. Berkeley : University of California Press,
c1998.
Uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore English history from 1649
to 1789.
821 NEW
The new Penguin book of Romantic poetry. London ; : Penguin Books,
2003, c2001.
An anthology of Romantic poetry that is organized by both theme and
genre and features the era's best-known, and lesser-known, poets.
821 NOR
The Norton anthology of modern and contemporary poetry.
Vol. 1. Modern poetry -- v. 2. Contemporary poetry. Collects nearly
1,600 works by 195 nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets, from
Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Li-Young Lee and Sherman
Alexie, as well as statements on poetry by the poets themselves; and
includes headnotes, annotations, and bibliographies.
974.4 MAR
Marshall, Megan. The Peabody sisters : three women who ignited American
romanticism. Examines the roles played in the
American Romanticism movement by the three Peabody sisters of
Salem, Massachusetts: Elizabeth, a publisher who influenced the
thought of author-philosophers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David
Thoreau; Mary, the reformer who married educator Horace Mann; and
Sophia, the artist who married author Nathaniel Hawthorne.
R 810.9 WAY
Wayne, Tiffany K., 1968-. Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism. New York :
Facts On File, c2006.
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on
the lives and works of transcendentalist writers, including discussion of
related places and concepts, covering a period that ranges from the
early nineteenth century to the post-Civil War era.
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The portable American realism reader.
Jim Smiley and his jumping frog / Mark Twain -- The luck of roaring
camp / Bret Harte -- The story of the old ram / Mark Twain -- The
minister's housekeeper / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Belles Demoiselles
Plantation / George Washington Cable -- Rodman The keeper /
Constance Fenimore Woolson -- A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- A
church mouse / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- How Celia changed her mind /
Rose Terry Cooke -- La grande demoiselle / Grace Elizabeth King -Athénaïse / Kate Chopin -- The goodness of Saint Rocque / Alice
Dunbar-Nelson -- Free Joe and the rest of the world / Joel Chandler
Harris -- Miss Tempy's watchers / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The sheriff's
children / Charles W. Chesnutt -- The return of a private / Hamlin
Garland -- An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- The
revolt of a "mother" / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- My Aunt Susan / Harold
Frederic -- The real thing / Henry James -- The yellow wallpaper /
Charlotte Perkins Freeman -- Désirée's baby / Kate Chopin -- The little
room / Madelene Yale Wynne -- The beast in the jungle / Henry James
-- The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- The bride comes to Yellow Sky /
Stephen Crane -- A providential match / Abraham Cahan -- Sister
Josepha / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- The wife of his youth / Charles W.
Chesnutt -- The trial path / Zitkala-Sä -- The other two / Edith Wharton
-- A Wagner matinee / Willa Cather -- Editha / William Dean Howells -The walking woman / Mary Austin -- Nobody rich, nobody poor / Zona
Gale -- Mrs. Spring Fragrance / Sui Sin Far -- The men in the storm ;
An experiment in misery ; The open boat / Stephen Crane -- Under the
lion's paw / Hamlin Garland -- Curiuos shifts in the poor / Theodore
Dreiser -- The law of life / Jack London -- A deal in wheat / Frank
Norris -- The lynching of Jube Benson / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The
problem of Old Harjo -- To build a fire / Jack London -- The second
choice / Theodore Dreiser. A collection of forty-seven fiction stories
published in the United States between 1865 and 1918, including
works by Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Kate Chopin, Henry James, Edith
Wharton, and many others.
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PBS American Novel Literary Timeline:
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Norton Anthology Online Companion:
Literary period characteristics; famous authors & their works
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IIP Digital: US Embassy Resources: Outline of American Literature
The Outline of American Literature traces the paths of American narrative, fiction, poetry and
drama as they move from pre-colonial times into the present, through such literary movements as
romanticism, realism and experimentation.
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