Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) An author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher. “Walden” (1854) He forces the reader to evaluate the way he has been living and thinking. Either infuria...
Jack London (1876-1916) “The Call of the Wild” “White Fang” “Martin Eden” John Steinbeck (1902-1968) Major works: “Tortilla Flat” (1935) “Of Mice and Men” (1937) “The Grapes of Wrath” (1937) “Connery Row” (1945) “East of Eden” (1952) 196...
Jewish American Writers Issac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991) Polish-born Jewish American Nobel Prize-winning author writing in Yiddish, “The Magician of Lublin” “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy” Soul Bellow (1915-2005) “The Adventures of Augie March”(1953) “Seize The Day”(1956) “Henderson the Rain King”(1...
Local color writing in realism - main issues: The presentation of the features and peculiarities of a particular locality and its inhabitants. Public interest in distant parts of the country. Concentrating especially upon the peculiarities of dialect, manners, folklore and landscape that distingu...
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) The Haley Comet man, A printer, river boat pilot, a soldier, later newspaper writer and a lecturer, Works: “The Innocents Abroad” (1869) “Life on the Mississippi” (1883) “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Cou...
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) A sense of doom over the characters (frustrated, damaged) Major works: “The Glass Managerie” (1944) - a four-character memory play - autobiographical “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1947) - reality vs. imaginary, the Ol...
The Arts in Modernism A tendency to abstraction, innovativeness, aestheticism, futurism. Includes visual arts (photography as well), literature, music, film, architecture. American artists become expatriates, choosing Europe as the place to live and create. Alfred Stieglitz - making photography ...
THE GILDED AGE Time of rapid change, rapidly made fortunes People rich but not refined (industrial development, discovery of gold) Bizarre people were coming to wealth Previously wealth was associated with culture. The Gilded Age's people were ...
Puritan Poetry: Michael Wigglesworth - “The Day of Doom” (1662) Edward Taylor (1642-1729) - a minister “Preparatory Meditations” (complete works published in 1960) Anne Bradstreet - “The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up into America” (1647) ...
