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This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:18th-century African-American writers and Category:18th-century American male writers and Category:18th-century Native American writers and Category:18th-century American women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
Often considered a movement centered in New England, the American Renaissance was inspired in part by a new focus on humanism as a way to move from Calvinism. [5] Literary nationalists at this time were calling for a movement that would develop a unique American literary style to distinguish American literature from British literature. [1]
European literature of the 18th century refers to literature (poetry, drama, satire, essays, and novels) produced in Europe during this period. The 18th century saw the development of the modern novel as literary genre, in fact many candidates for the first novel in English date from this period, of which Daniel Defoe's 1719 Robinson Crusoe is probably the best known.
Samuel Johnson (18 September [O.S. 7 September] 1709 – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), [2] who went by his middle name Waldo, [3] was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:18th-century English male writers and Category:18th-century English women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
The 1920s brought sharp changes to American literature. Many writers had direct experience of the First World War, and they used it to frame their writings. [37] Writers like Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and poets Ezra Pound, H.D. and T. S. Eliot demonstrate the growth of an international perspective in American literature. American writers had ...
1908 in literature – Leonid Andreyev's The Seven Who Were Hanged; E. M. Forster's A Room with a View; Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables; Anatole France's L'île des Pingouins (Penguin Island); Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows; Baroness Orczy's The Elusive Pimpernel; Colette's The Tendrils of the Vine.