AMERICAN ART AND LITERATURE
1819 –
1820
- Washington Irving / “Rip Van Winkle” & “Legend of
Sleepy Hollow”
1820s1860s
- Transcendentalism
- Henry David Thoreau / civil disobedience
1830s –
1860s
- Romanticism
- Emily Dickinson poetry (1830-1886)
1830s –
1870s
- Hudson River School
1826
- Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
1828
- American Dictionary of the English Language
1841
- Edgar Allen Poe / Murders in the Rue Morgue
1850
- Nathaniel Hawthorne / Scarlet Letter
1851
- Herman Melville / Moby Dick
1855
- Walt Whitman / Leaves of Grass
1861
- William Wadsworth Longfellow / “Paul Revere’s
Ride”
Read/take notes (p 413 – 416) and prepare to discuss the events in bold.