The Scarlet Letter was the first important novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the leading authors of nineteenth-century romanticism in American literature. Like many of his works, the novel is set in Puritan New England and examines guilt, sin, and evil as inherent human traits.

2020年10月2日 · In the late 1800s and early 1900s, American literary realism, in the works of Mark Twain, John Steinbeck and others, was marked by attempts to present realistic things as they are, without supernatural or speculative elements.

2024年12月17日 · Early 19th-century literature. After the American Revolution, and increasingly after the War of 1812, American writers were exhorted to produce a literature that was truly native. As if in response, four authors of very respectable stature appeared.

The titles featured here from 1800 to 1850 have had a profound effect on American life, but they are by no means the only influential or best ones.

By the first decades of the 19th century, a truly American literature began to emerge. Though still derived from British literary tradition, the short stories and novels published from 1800 through the 1820s began to depict American society and explore the American landscape in an unprecedented manner.

The production of American literature began with advent of the American Revolution which emphasized on differences that were soaring up between American and British political consciousness. The American colonized people opposed the British colonialism and slavery.

The titles featured here from 1750 to 1800 have had a profound effect on American life, but they are by no means the only influential or best ones.

A short list with descriptions of important works of American Romantic Literature, written from 1800-60, also known as the Antebellum era.

2024年12月17日 · American literature - Colonial, Revolution, Enlightenment: In America in the early years of the 18th century, some writers, such as Cotton Mather, carried on the older traditions. His huge history and biography of Puritan New England, Magnalia Christi Americana, in 1702, and his vigorous Manuductio ad Ministerium, or introduction to the ...

2024年12月10日 · The period from 1800 to 1830 in American literature is often characterized by the emergence of a distinctly American voice in literature. This era marks the beginning of the Romantic period in America, though it was still heavily influenced by European literary traditions.