American Literature

The keyword American Literature is tagged in the following 4 articles.

Religious Intolerance in The Female American, Or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield

December 6, 2011 - 1226 words | Literary Criticism » American Literature

Published in 1767, The Female American, Or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield claims to be the spiritual autobiography of an Unca Eliza Winkfield. Like Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, this narrative is peppered with bits of true historical details and events in... Read Article »

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American Literature Religious Intolerance Religious Imperialism Winkfield

Racial Uplift: Acculturation to the Dominant Culture in Contending Forces by Pauline E. Hopkins

October 27, 2011 - 3306 words | African-American Studies » African-american Literature

Domestic fiction reigned in women’s literature during the nineteenth-century. These narratives defined ”True Womanhood,” where the female exemplified four pillars: piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness. They are meant to reject the public... Read Article »

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African-American Literature Literary Criticism Acculturation Dominant Culture

The Great Gatsby's Relation to and Importance as a Work of Art

January 6, 2011 - 3020 words | English » F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald, as quoted by Matthew Bruccoli, recognized the importance of his own novel and its artistic achievements: “Gatsby was far from perfect in many ways but all in all it contains such prose as has never been written in America before. [&hellip... Read Article »

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Literary Art 1920s American Literature

Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!" and the Mysterious Rosa Coldfield

November 1, 2010 - 5096 words | Literary Criticism » William Faulkner

William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! begins in the year 1833, when the stranger, Thomas Stupen, rides into Jefferson, Mississippi, and promptly begins building himself an empire. He builds a plantation named Stupen’s Hundred, takes a wife, Ellen Coldfield... Read Article »

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William Faulkner Rosa Coldfield Absalom Absalom Modernism American Literature