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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 ...
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.
The Knickerbocker Group was a somewhat indistinct group of 19th-century American writers. [1] Its most prominent members included Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper and William Cullen Bryant. Each was a pioneer in general literature—novels, poetry and journalism. Humorously titled after Irving's own pen name, many others later joined ...
Characters in American novels of the 19th century (4 C, 14 P) 0–9. 1800s American novels (4 P) ... Anti-Tom literature This page was last ...
19th-century American writers (10 C, 744 P) Pages in category "19th-century American literature" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
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.
The Portico magazine, an early tool of literary nationalist critics. American literary nationalism was a literary movement in the United States in the early-to mid 19th century, which consisted of American authors working towards the development of a distinct American literature.
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]