American Renaissance in Literature

Study American Renaissance using Online Video

With this title, you'll survey classic American literary works by the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. Use our 3 online educational video titles to survey American literary works from the mid-19th Century. Writers discussed include Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Jack London.

Learning Objectives:

• Survey American literary works of the mid-nineteenth century, a turbulent period dominated by the struggle over slavery and the pain of a nation divided by civil war.
• Explore the works of the Transcendentalists and other pre-eminent writers of the American Renaissance, including Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe.
• Discuss the literary contributions of Mark Twain, Joel Chandler Harris, and other writers who captured the flavor of a region through skilful dialogue and description.
• Gain insight to the abiding themes of struggle that illuminated the twilight of the Civil War's aftermath.
• Witness the surrender of realism to naturalism and the emerging belief in a destiny controlled by biological, social, and economic forces.

• Literature > The History Of American Literature > The Literature Of A Nation Divided And The American Renaissance
• Literature of a Nation Divided (Runtime: 13:27)
• The American Renaissance (Runtime: 15:47)
• Realism and Naturalism (Runtime: 19:06)