Книга: History of American Literature

Содержание

• Thomas Paine soon became famous for his fiery essays in support of the American patriots. His pamphlet «Common Seuse» (1776) called for complete independence from Great Britain. In a series of pamphlets called «The American Crisis» (1776–1783), he encouraged the rebels to persist during the darkest days of the Revolutionary War.
• James Hector St. John De Creve Coeur the French – born essayist (1735–1813), helped the colonists think of themselves as American rather than Europeans. Crevecoeur saw America as a new land where individuals could throw off old Prejudices, suffocating social Customs, and tyrannical government.
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)
• Walt (Walter) Whitman (1819–1892)
• Stephen Crane (1871–1900)
• Frank Norris (1870–1902)