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Important Writers

North

CHARACTERISTICS

Features in North American Literature

American

  • Francis Hopkinson- A Pretty Story (1774)
  • Jeremy Belknap - History of New Hampshire (1784-1792)
  • Susanna Rowson- Charlotte Temple (1791)
  • Hugh Henry Brackenridge- The Battle of Bunker Hill.(1776)
  • Royall Tyler- The Contrast (1787)
  • Charles Brockden Brown- Wieland (1798)
  • William Hill Brown- The Power of Sympathy (1789)
  • Edgar Allan Poe- Extraordinary Stories(1968)
  • Emily Dickinson- (Poetry Works) Unable are the loved to die
  • Mark Twain- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. (1876)
  • Herman Melville- Moby Dick (1851)

  • The writings establish the popular and the issues of daily basis.
  • Realism is handled in a direct and crude manner. Misfortunes through the country (natural disasters, epidemics and banditry) are reflected.
  • Vivid images.
  • Abundant imagination.
  • The characters have a strong psychology and very clear reasons to act.
  • In narrative, the writers had a quick and easy way to write.

Literature

EXTRAORDINARY STORIES

by: Edgar Allan Poe

Most Significant Works

A series of short stories with varied, sometimes fanciful, mysterious, controversial, but especially disturbing themes.

Gives interested audiences a peek into the literary tradition in other countries.

Moby Dick

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

by Herman Melville

by Mark Twain

Considered a "marine epic" where a sailor named Ahab, captain of the Pequod, seeks revenge on a whale, Moby Dick, which caused him to lose a leg. For three days the whale fights against his boat and eventually dies.

Novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River.

He falls in love with Becky, the daughter of a judge, witness the murder of Dr. Robinson, run away from home and make everyone believe he was dead to reappear in the church (people think it was a miracle); and go treasure hunting, among other adventures. The many jobs that had Mark Twain (printer, soldier, miner, pilot boats) reflects in his writings.

PRINCIPAL WORKS

Wieland

by Charles Brockden Brown

American Gothic novel, is often categorized under several subgenres including horror, psychological fiction and epistolary fiction.

Set in the years after the French and Indian War and before the Revolutionary War. It is structured as a first person narrative in the form of two letters by Clara Wieland.

Shows the circumstances in which they were living.

Although some of the texts produced in North America were related to Romanticism and Realism, works took a different point of view from the original movement.

  • The first literary writings exalted patriotism and the values ​​of equality, freedom and truth.
  • The first works were written in a realistic way, with a bit of suspense and adventure.
  • The writers of the United States wanted to create their own epic
  • They made use mainly of three important events: the Revolution, the Colonization by the English and the territorial expansion.
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