1st Edition
The Routledge Introduction to American Renaissance Literature
By Larry J. Reynolds
Copyright 2022
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
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Examining the most frequently taught works by key writers of the American Renaissance, including Poe, Emerson, Fuller, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Jacobs, Stowe, Whitman, and Dickinson, this engaging and accessible book offers the crucial historical, social, and political contexts in which they must be studied. Larry J. Reynolds usefully groups authors together for more lively and... Read more
Preface
1. Longfellow, Poe, and American Literary Emergence
2. Emerson, Thoreau, and Transcendentalism
3. Fuller, Fern, and Women’s Rights
4. Melville, Hawthorne, and Suffering Humanity
5. Douglass, Stowe, Jacobs, and Anti-Slavery
6. Whitman, Dickinson, and the Civil War.
Works Cited
Biography
Larry J. Reynolds is a University Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University. He is a leading scholar of the American Renaissance and has abundant experience teaching and writing for undergraduate audiences.
