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Summary

The new Research Guide to American Literature is a series of handbooks for students that provides strategies for studying and writing about frequently taught literary topics. Each volume contains dozens of study guides, each of which examines a particular work, author, movement, or theme, providing the necessary background information, suggesting fruitful areas of research, and listing the best secondary sources.

Author Biography

Robert D. Habich is a professor of English at Ball State University and president-elect of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society. He is the author of Transcendentalism and the "Western Messenger": A History of the Magazine and Its Contributors, 1835-1841 and editor of Lives Out of Letters: Essays on American Literary Biography and Documentation.
Robert C. Nowatzki is an associate professor of English at Ball State University. He is the author of many scholarly articles on 19th-century American literature.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Series Introduction	p. xi
Overview	p. 3
Boundaries of the Period	p. 3
Movements	p. 4
Dominant Genres and Literary Forms	p. 6
The Legacy of Romanticism	p. 7
Historical and Social Context	p. 9
Economics, Industry, and Technology	p. 12
Social Reform Movements	p. 12
Writing, Publishing, and the Literary Profession	p. 13
Literary Influences	p. 14
International Influences	p. 14
Native Influences	p. 15
Historical Continuities and Discontinuities	p. 16
Evolution of Critical Opinion	p. 19
Study Guides on General Topics	p. 27
Antebellum African American Novelists	p. 27
The Birth of American Feminism	p. 33
Exploration, Expansion, and the Frontier	p. 39
Manifest Destiny and Territorial Expansion	p. 39
Exploration	p. 40
The Frontier	p. 40
The Fireside Poets	p. 43
Gothicism	p. 49
Literature of the American Women's Movement	p. 53
Literary Professionalism and Organizations: Tours, Clubs, the Lyceum Movement	p. 59
Native American Oral Literature	p. 63
Creation/Origin Narratives	p. 64
Trickster Narratives	p. 64
Oratory	p. 64
Poetry and Song	p. 65
Romanticism	p. 69
Slavery and Abolitionism	p. 74
Southwestern Humor	p. 78
Technology and Industrialization	p. 85
Communications Technologies	p. 85
Telegraphy	p. 85
Photography	p. 85
Transportation Technologies	p. 86
Industrial Technologies	p. 86
Transcendentalism	p. 89
Wars and Peace	p. 93
Study Guides on Works and Writers	p. 99
The Leather-Stocking Tales	p. 99
"Life in the Iron Mills"	p. 104
Frederick Douglass	p. 108
Early Addresses and Lectures	p. 112
Nature	p. 117
"The Great Lawsuit"	p. 121
The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance	p. 126
The Scarlet Letter, a Romance	p. 130
Short Fiction (1837-1852)	p. 134
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself	p. 140
"Bartleby, the Scrivener"	p. 145
"Benito Cereno"	p. 147
Early Novels (1846-1850)	p. 150
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale	p. 155
The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe	p. 160
Edgar Allan Poe	p. 164
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Tales
Hope Leslie; or Early Times in the Massachusetts	p. 169
The Sword and the Distaff; or "Fair, Fat and Forty," A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution	p. 174
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly	p. 180
Political Essays	p. 185
Walden; or, Life in the Woods	p. 190
The Wide, Wide World	p. 195
"Song of Myself" in Leaves of Grass	p. 200
Annotated Bibliography	p. 209
Glossary	p. 217
Index	p. 221
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Romanticism and Transcendentalism: 1820–1865explores American literature from 1820 up to the end of the Civil War. Containing approximately 40 study guides, this new resource is essential for high school and college students interested in researching and writing on this era of American literature.Topics covered include:

Abolitionism/slavery
Rebecca Davis's "Life in the Iron Mills"
Frederick Douglass
Ralph Waldo Emerson'sNature
Exploration, expansion, and the frontier
Gothicism
Nathaniel Hawthorne'sTheScarlet Letter
Harriet Jacobs'sIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Herman Melville'sMoby-Dick
Henry David Thoreau'sWalden
Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself"
and more.

Excerpted from Romanticism and Transcendentalism, 1820-1865 by Bruccoli-Clark Layman
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Romanticism and Transcendentalism, 1820-1865

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