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v. t. e. American literature is literature written or produced in the United States and in the colonies that preceded it. The American literary tradition is part of the broader tradition of English-language literature but also includes literature produced in languages other than English. [1]
Early American publishers and printers. A typical printing press of the 18th century. Religious enthusiasm and the great demand for bibles and other religious works is largely what promoted the first printing efforts in the American colonies. Before and during the American Revolution colonial printers were also actively publishing newspapers ...
1812 – War of 1812, an offshoot of the Napoleonic Wars, begins. 1812 – Daniel Webster elected to the United States Congress. 1812 – Louisiana becomes the 18th state. 1812 – U.S. presidential election, 1812: James Madison reelected president; Elbridge Gerry elected vice president. March 4, 1813 – President Madison begins second term ...
1502 in literature – Shin Maha Thilawuntha 's Yazawin Kyaw. 1503 in literature – Robin Hood and the Potter. 1504 in literature – Jacopo Sannazaro 's Arcadia; Beunans Meriasek. 1505 in literature – Pietro Bembo 's Gli Asolani. 1506 in literature – William Dunbar 's The Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis.
Joel Barlow. Issachar Bates. Ann Eliza Bleecker. Robert Bolling (poet) James Bowdoin. Martha Wadsworth Brewster. Mather Byles.
James Fenimore Cooper – Precaution. Thomas Gaspey – Forty Years Ago. Robert Huish – Castle of Nielo. Francis Lathom – Italian Mysteries. Charles Maturin (anonymously) – Melmoth the Wanderer. Regina Marie Roche – The Munster Cottage Boy. Sir Walter Scott (anonymously) Ivanhoe (published 1819, dated 1820) The Abbot.
Isabel Allende (born 1942), Chilean/American novelist, Eva Luna, Daughter of Fortune. Dorothy Allison (born 1949), Bastard Out of Carolina. Lisa Alther (born 1944), Kinflicks. Joseph Alexander Altsheler (1862–1919), The Young Trailers. Julia Alvarez (born 1950), How the García Girls Lost Their Accents.
1704: The Campaign by Joseph Addison; Miscellany Poems by William Wycherley. 1705: The Mistake by Sir John Vanbrugh; The Gamester by Susanna Centlivre. 1706: The Recruiting Officer (play) – George Farquhar. 1707: Essay Concerning the Use of Reason – Anthony Collins; The Beaux' Stratagem – George Farquhar.