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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 ...
Cover of McGuffey's First Reader. The Eclectic Readers (commonly, but informally known as the McGuffey Readers) were a series of graded primers for grade levels 1–6. They were widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, and are still used today in some private schools and homeschooling.
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 ...
Notable events of the nineteenth century. Great deeds of men and nations and the progress of the world, in a series of short studies (1896) History of the World, Comprising Evolution of Mankind and Story of All Races (4 volumes, 1894) The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature (25 volumes, 1898) James Otis, the pre-revolutionist (1898)
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 New-England primer enlarged. For the more easy attaining the true reading of English. To which is added, the Assembly's catechism – Partially digitized object in Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University Library; 1777 ed. online at sacred-texts.com; 1843 ed. online at johansens.us; Images from the 1843 edition (archived)
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 February 2025. Cultural belief of 19th-century American expansionists For other uses, see Manifest Destiny (disambiguation). American Progress (1872) by John Gast is an allegorical representation of the modernization of the new west. Columbia, a personification of the United States, is shown leading ...
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 ...