Romanticism and Transcendentalism, 1820-1865
by Habich, Robert D.; Nowatzki, Robert C.Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-04-01
Publisher(s): Facts on File
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Summary
The new Research Guide to American Literature is a series of handbooks for students that provides strategies for studying and writing about frequently taught literary topics. Each volume contains dozens of study guides, each of which examines a particular work, author, movement, or theme, providing the necessary background information, suggesting fruitful areas of research, and listing the best secondary sources.
Author Biography
Robert D. Habich is a professor of English at Ball State University and president-elect of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society. He is the author of Transcendentalism and the "Western Messenger": A History of the Magazine and Its Contributors, 1835-1841 and editor of Lives Out of Letters: Essays on American Literary Biography and Documentation.
Robert C. Nowatzki is an associate professor of English at Ball State University. He is the author of many scholarly articles on 19th-century American literature.
Robert C. Nowatzki is an associate professor of English at Ball State University. He is the author of many scholarly articles on 19th-century American literature.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Series Introduction | p. xi |
| Overview | p. 3 |
| Boundaries of the Period | p. 3 |
| Movements | p. 4 |
| Dominant Genres and Literary Forms | p. 6 |
| The Legacy of Romanticism | p. 7 |
| Historical and Social Context | p. 9 |
| Economics, Industry, and Technology | p. 12 |
| Social Reform Movements | p. 12 |
| Writing, Publishing, and the Literary Profession | p. 13 |
| Literary Influences | p. 14 |
| International Influences | p. 14 |
| Native Influences | p. 15 |
| Historical Continuities and Discontinuities | p. 16 |
| Evolution of Critical Opinion | p. 19 |
| Study Guides on General Topics | p. 27 |
| Antebellum African American Novelists | p. 27 |
| The Birth of American Feminism | p. 33 |
| Exploration, Expansion, and the Frontier | p. 39 |
| Manifest Destiny and Territorial Expansion | p. 39 |
| Exploration | p. 40 |
| The Frontier | p. 40 |
| The Fireside Poets | p. 43 |
| Gothicism | p. 49 |
| Literature of the American Women's Movement | p. 53 |
| Literary Professionalism and Organizations: Tours, Clubs, the Lyceum Movement | p. 59 |
| Native American Oral Literature | p. 63 |
| Creation/Origin Narratives | p. 64 |
| Trickster Narratives | p. 64 |
| Oratory | p. 64 |
| Poetry and Song | p. 65 |
| Romanticism | p. 69 |
| Slavery and Abolitionism | p. 74 |
| Southwestern Humor | p. 78 |
| Technology and Industrialization | p. 85 |
| Communications Technologies | p. 85 |
| Telegraphy | p. 85 |
| Photography | p. 85 |
| Transportation Technologies | p. 86 |
| Industrial Technologies | p. 86 |
| Transcendentalism | p. 89 |
| Wars and Peace | p. 93 |
| Study Guides on Works and Writers | p. 99 |
| The Leather-Stocking Tales | p. 99 |
| "Life in the Iron Mills" | p. 104 |
| Frederick Douglass | p. 108 |
| Early Addresses and Lectures | p. 112 |
| Nature | p. 117 |
| "The Great Lawsuit" | p. 121 |
| The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance | p. 126 |
| The Scarlet Letter, a Romance | p. 130 |
| Short Fiction (1837-1852) | p. 134 |
| Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself | p. 140 |
| "Bartleby, the Scrivener" | p. 145 |
| "Benito Cereno" | p. 147 |
| Early Novels (1846-1850) | p. 150 |
| Moby-Dick; or, The Whale | p. 155 |
| The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe | p. 160 |
| Edgar Allan Poe | p. 164 |
| Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Tales | |
| Hope Leslie; or Early Times in the Massachusetts | p. 169 |
| The Sword and the Distaff; or "Fair, Fat and Forty," A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution | p. 174 |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly | p. 180 |
| Political Essays | p. 185 |
| Walden; or, Life in the Woods | p. 190 |
| The Wide, Wide World | p. 195 |
| "Song of Myself" in Leaves of Grass | p. 200 |
| Annotated Bibliography | p. 209 |
| Glossary | p. 217 |
| Index | p. 221 |
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Excerpts
Romanticism and Transcendentalism: 1820–1865explores American literature from 1820 up to the end of the Civil War. Containing approximately 40 study guides, this new resource is essential for high school and college students interested in researching and writing on this era of American literature.Topics covered include:
- Abolitionism/slavery
- Rebecca Davis's "Life in the Iron Mills"
- Frederick Douglass
- Ralph Waldo Emerson'sNature
- Exploration, expansion, and the frontier
- Gothicism
- Nathaniel Hawthorne'sTheScarlet Letter
- Harriet Jacobs'sIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Herman Melville'sMoby-Dick
- Henry David Thoreau'sWalden
- Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself"
- and more.
Excerpted from Romanticism and Transcendentalism, 1820-1865 by Bruccoli-Clark Layman
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