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AMERICAN WOMEN-WRITERS OF THE 19TH CENTURY AND THE MAIN THEMES OF THEIR WORKS
CONCLUSION
Authors who first rose to prominence in the 1830s and were active until the end of the Civil War - comedians, New England classics, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman and others - were carry out their work in a new spirit, and their achievements are of a new kind. This was partly because they were influenced in part by the expansion of democratic concepts, which, in 1829, succeeded Andrew Jackson's inauguration as President. This is partly because, during this Romantic period when the focus was on vernacular scenes and characters from a variety of literatures, they included a lot of America in their books. The writings of two groups of American humorists whose work appeared between 1830 and 1867 are particularly full of vibrancy. One group created a number of Southeast Yankee figures who use common sense to comment on the political and social context. Prominent in this group are Seba Smith, James Russell Lowell and Benjamin P. Shillaber. These authors captured the discourse and character of New England at this time that no one else had. Meanwhile, in the Old Southwest, writers like Davy Crockett, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson J. Hooper, Thomas Bangs Thorpe, Joseph G. Baldwin and George Washington Harris painted vivid pictures of the bubbling border and showed interest in ordinary people being part of Jacksonian democracy. Although Lowell was once one of the writers with a rather down-to-earth sense of humour, his long-term relationship was with a group of New England writers with connections to Harvard and Cambridge, Massachusetts - the Brahmins. Mon, as they are called - at the opposite pole. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Lowell were all aristocrats, all imbued with foreign cultures, all professors at Harvard. Longfellow adapted European methods of narrative and verse for narrative poems dealing with American history, and some of his less didactic lyrics perfectly blend technique and topic. Holmes, in his occasional poems and "Breakfast Table" series (1858-1891), brought a touch of elegance and fun to a glossy literature that was perhaps too restrained. Lowell, in his poems describing the American landscape, included much of his homeland in the verse. His poems, especially "Harvard Commemorative Praise" (1865), perfectly express noble sentiments. Download 46.7 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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