AMERICAN LITERATURE American 19 th century literature: American 19 th century literature: - feminism - feminism - realism - realism - transcendentalism.

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AMERICAN LITERATURE American 19 th century literature: American 19 th century literature: - feminism - feminism - realism - realism - transcendentalism - transcendentalism - Americanism - Americanism - racism - racism - naturalism - naturalism

AMERICAN LITERATURE New England New England New York New York During 1870 – 1901 Britain lost a lot of its international commerce to USA and Germany, and ceased to be the “workshop of the world”, but it survived as the “world’s banker” Pound Sterling as international currency. During 1870 – 1901 Britain lost a lot of its international commerce to USA and Germany, and ceased to be the “workshop of the world”, but it survived as the “world’s banker” Pound Sterling as international currency. Slavery was abolished in 1863 Slavery was abolished in 1863

AMERICAN LITERATURE America and its search for itself: America and its search for itself: - more European than American - nature is the incarnation of thought - world is the mind precipitated - New England Calvinist upbringing. - historical American thought

AMERICAN LITERATURE The authors: The authors: - Washington Irving (1783 – 1859) - James Penimore Cooper (1789 – 1855) - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864) - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882) - Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896) - Herman Melville (1819 – 1891) - Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) - Henry James (1843 – 1916) - Stephen Crane (1871 – 1900) - Rupert Brooke (1887 – 1915) - Ernest Hemingway (1898 – 1961)

AMERICAN LITERATURE Poetry: Poetry: - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) - Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849) - Walter Whitman (1819 – 1892) - Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886) Drama: Drama: - Eugene O’Neill (1888 – 1955) -

INTO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE British Literature British Literature New Poetry: - magical experience - magical experience - imagism - modernism - poetic expression - poetic form - poetic sense

INTO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE Fiction: - interrelation between individual self, social self and nature social self and nature - stream of consciousness: the flow of thought of the waking mind ---- interior thought of the waking mind ---- interior monologue used to describe inner monologue used to describe inner movement of consciousness in movement of consciousness in character’s mind without the obvious character’s mind without the obvious intervention of the author. intervention of the author.

INTO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE

American Literature American LiteratureNovels: - disillusion - moral decline - humor