American Literature / Unit 19 AML 1804 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Band 2 in One Entry: 1800–1865
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The idea
Twenty percent. Irving and Cooper first, then the transcendentalists Emerson, Thoreau and Fuller, then the dark romantics Poe, Hawthorne and Melville, then Whitman and Dickinson, and alongside all of it the slave narrative and abolition: Douglass, Jacobs and Stowe.
In practice
Romantics, transcendentalists, and the narratives.
Where people slip
Douglass supplies two board sample questions.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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