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Major American poets of the nineteenth century include Walt Whitman, Melville, and Emily Dickinson. Mark Twain was the first major American writer to be born in the West. Henry James achieved international recognition with novels like The Portrait of a Lady (1881). Following World War I, modernist literature rejected nineteenth-century forms ...
It is a primary example of nineteenth-century realism's role in the naturalization of the burgeoning capitalist marketplace. William Dean Howells was the first American author to bring a realist aesthetic to the literature of the United States. His stories of 1850s Boston upper-crust life are highly regarded among scholars of American fiction.
From the mid-19th-century American movement: poetry and philosophy concerned with self-reliance, independence from modern technology [39] Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau: Realism: The mid-19th-century movement based on a simplification of style and image and an interest in poverty and everyday concerns [40]
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:19th-century African-American writers and Category:19th-century American male writers and Category:19th-century Native American writers and Category:19th-century American women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
American literary regionalism, often used interchangeably with the term "local color", is a style or genre of writing in the United States that gained popularity in the mid-to-late 19th century and early 20th century.
A wide range of American communities across US history were founded with the intent of achieving a utopian community, several of which are still active into the present day. Nineteenth century [ edit ]
Whitman was a contemporary of the fireside poets who complained that they were too focused on reflecting English styles and themes in American poetry: "Thus far, impress'd by New England writers and schoolmasters, we tacitly abandon ourselves to the notion that our United States have been fashion'd from the British Islands only, and essentially ...
Pages in category "19th-century American literature" ... Bookman list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1890s; P. Plantation tradition; S.