Literary Periods Pathfinder

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016.14 TRA The Transcendentalists : a review of research and criticism. Offers an introduction to American Transcendentalism, with essays surveying the Transcendentalist movement, its historical context, its relationship to Unitarianism, and the communities and periodicals that helped create it, and brief overviews of the movement's key writers and their works.

277.3 HAN Hankins, Barry,. The Second Great Awakening and the Transcendentalists. The Second Great Awakening : an overview -- Transcendentalism as a new religious movement -- Charles Finney and the democratic empowerment of urban revivals -- Revivals and the development of African American religion in America -- The Second Great Awakening, Transcendentalism, and the antislavery impulse -- Revivalism and feminism -- Biographies -- Primary documents. Presents overviews of two religious movements in early nineteenth-century America, including the Second Great Awakening and transcendentalism; examines their effects on American culture; and includes brief biographies of significant revivalists and transcendentalists, excerpts from primary documents, and other resources.

709.03 KAL Kallen, Stuart A,. Romanticism. Introduction: An artistic movement -- Romance and revolution -- The German roots of romanticism -- Politics and romance in France -- A different type of revolution in Great Britain -- Romanticism in the American wilderness. Presents a brief overview of the development of Romanticism, its roots and influences on art and literature.

809.911 LEW Lewis, Pericles. The Cambridge introduction to modernism. Presents a comprehensive survey of literature and modernist art in England, Ireland, and Europe during the early twentieth century, considering works by W. H. Auden, Charles Baudelaire, Samuel Beckett, Bertolt Brecht, Anton Chekhov, T. S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and others.

810.8 TRA Transcendentalism : a reader. An annotated collection of writings by figures in the nineteenth-century religious, philosophical, and intellectual movement called Transcendentalism; includes such writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau.

810.9 AME American realism. Presents an overview of the literary movement known as American realism, and features fifteen critical articles that offer a definition of realism, and discuss the rise of naturalism, class, race, and gender in American realism; national character in American realism; and realism after 1914.

818.309 OLS Olson, Steven P. Henry David Thoreau : American naturalist, writer, and transcendentalist. A biography of American author, naturalist, and transcendentalist, Henry David Thoreau, describing his life and literary career, early works, and the legacy he left behind.

820.9 REF Refiguring revolutions : aesthetics and politics from the English revolution to the Romantic revolution. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998. Uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore English history from 1649 to 1789.

821 NEW The new Penguin book of Romantic poetry. London ; : Penguin Books, 2003, c2001. An anthology of Romantic poetry that is organized by both theme and genre and features the era's best-known, and lesser-known, poets.

821 NOR The Norton anthology of modern and contemporary poetry. Vol. 1. Modern poetry -- v. 2. Contemporary poetry. Collects nearly 1,600 works by 195 nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Li-Young Lee and Sherman Alexie, as well as statements on poetry by the poets themselves; and includes headnotes, annotations, and bibliographies.

974.4 MAR Marshall, Megan. The Peabody sisters : three women who ignited American romanticism. Examines the roles played in the American Romanticism movement by the three Peabody sisters of Salem, Massachusetts: Elizabeth, a publisher who influenced the thought of author-philosophers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau; Mary, the reformer who married educator Horace Mann; and Sophia, the artist who married author Nathaniel Hawthorne.

R 810.9 WAY Wayne, Tiffany K., 1968-. Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism. New York : Facts On File, c2006. Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on the lives and works of transcendentalist writers, including discussion of related places and concepts, covering a period that ranges from the early nineteenth century to the post-Civil War era.

SC POR The portable American realism reader. Jim Smiley and his jumping frog / Mark Twain -- The luck of roaring camp / Bret Harte -- The story of the old ram / Mark Twain -- The minister's housekeeper / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Belles Demoiselles Plantation / George Washington Cable -- Rodman The keeper / Constance Fenimore Woolson -- A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- A church mouse / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- How Celia changed her mind / Rose Terry Cooke -- La grande demoiselle / Grace Elizabeth King -- Athénaïse / Kate Chopin -- The goodness of Saint Rocque / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Free Joe and the rest of the world / Joel Chandler Harris -- Miss Tempy's watchers / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The sheriff's children / Charles W. Chesnutt -- The return of a private / Hamlin Garland -- An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- The revolt of a "mother" / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- My Aunt Susan / Harold Frederic -- The real thing / Henry James -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Freeman -- Désirée's baby / Kate Chopin -- The little room / Madelene Yale Wynne -- The beast in the jungle / Henry James -- The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- The bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane -- A providential match / Abraham Cahan -- Sister Josepha / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- The wife of his youth / Charles W. Chesnutt -- The trial path / Zitkala-Sä -- The other two / Edith Wharton -- A Wagner matinee / Willa Cather -- Editha / William Dean Howells -- The walking woman / Mary Austin -- Nobody rich, nobody poor / Zona Gale -- Mrs. Spring Fragrance / Sui Sin Far -- The men in the storm ; An experiment in misery ; The open boat / Stephen Crane -- Under the lion's paw / Hamlin Garland -- Curiuos shifts in the poor / Theodore Dreiser -- The law of life / Jack London -- A deal in wheat / Frank Norris -- The lynching of Jube Benson / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The problem of Old Harjo -- To build a fire / Jack London -- The second choice / Theodore Dreiser. A collection of forty-seven fiction stories published in the United States between 1865 and 1918, including works by Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Kate Chopin, Henry James, Edith Wharton, and many others.

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General Information for Literary Periods

PBS American Novel Literary Timeline: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/index.html

Norton Anthology Online Companion: Literary period characteristics; famous authors & their works https://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/welcome.htm

IIP Digital: US Embassy Resources: Outline of American Literature The Outline of American Literature traces the paths of American narrative, fiction, poetry and drama as they move from pre-colonial times into the present, through such literary movements as romanticism, realism and experimentation. http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/publication/2011/07/20110727110855su0.6739575.htm l#axzz3HvdlMCZq

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