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Writing the nation

1865 TO PRESENT

A CONCISE INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE

Amy Berke, PhDRobert R. Bleil, PhDJordan Cofer, PhDDoug Davis, PhD

Writing the nation

1865 TO PRESENT

A CONCISE INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE

Amy Berke, PhDRobert R. Bleil, PhDJordan Cofer, PhDDoug Davis, PhD Writing the nation: a Concise introduction to american Literature—1865 to Present is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-S hareAlike 4.0 International License. This license allows you to remix, tweak, and build upon this work, even commercially, as long as you credit this origi nal source for the creation and license the new creation under identical terms.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: LATE ROMANTICISM (1855-1870) 1

1.1 Learning Outcomes

1

1.2 Introduction

2

1.3 Walt Whitman

4

1.3.1 song of Myself

5

1.3.2 “oh Captain! My Captain!"

42

1.3.3 “Crossing BrooKLYn FerrY"

43

1.3.4 reading and review Questions

47

1.4 Emily Dickinson

48

1.4.1 “i taste a LiQUor neVer BreWed"

49

1.4.2 “the soUL seLeCts her oWn soCietY"

49

1.4.3 “BeCaUse i CoULd not stoP For death"

50

1.4.4 “MY LiFe had stood—a Loaded gUn"

50

1.4.4 reading and review Questions

51

1.5 Key Terms

51

CHAPTER 2: REALISM (1865-1890) 52

2.1 Learning Outcomes

52

2.2 Introduction

53

2.3 Mark Twain

56

2.3.1 “the Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"

57

2.3.4 reading and review Questions

70

2.4 William Dean Howells

70

2.4.1 “editha"

71

2.4.2 reading and review Questions

81

2.5 Ambrose Bierce

81

2.5.1 “Chickamauga"

82

2.5.2 “occurence at owl Creek Bridge"

87

2.5.3 reading and review Questions

93

2.6 Henry James

94

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2.7 Sarah Orne Jewett

136

2.7.1 “a White heron"

137

2.7.2 reading and review Questions

144

2.8 Kate Chopin

145

2.8.2 "the storm"

153

2.8.3 reading and review Questions

157

2.9 Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

157

2.9.1 “a new england nun"

158

2.9.3 reading and review Questions

178

2.10 Charles Waddell Chesnutt

179

2.10.1 “the Passing of grandison"

180

2.10.2 reading and review Questions

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