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    In American Literature American society is unique‚ and the first of its kind. When Charles Dickens visited the United States he was astounded to see how informal American society was‚ as is recorded in his travelogue‚ American Notes For General Circulation. Besides this‚ it is often said by non-Americans that Americans have coarse senses of humor‚ or senses of humor that are low-class. The American sense of humor is said to clash with a polarized British one. The informality of American humor

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    importance of an attunement to the contexts in which political ideas circulate. She translates key tenets of American liberalism into everyday practices like eating‚ dressing‚ and shopping. Such practices enact assumptions that freedom means choice and that people represent themselves and exercise authority when they choose freely. By contexualizing liberalism in quotidian activities‚ moreover‚ Norton draws out the way these activities challenge its basic premises. "They reveal coercion in the context of

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    Bibliography: Buell‚ Lawrence‚ Emerson‚ (Harvard‚ Harvard University Press‚ 2004) p. 107. Emerson‚ Ralph Waldo‚ The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Nature‚ (New York‚ W. W. Norton & Co‚ 2012) p. 215-86. Hansen‚ Andrew‚ Reading Sonic Culture In Emerson’s “Self-Reliance”‚ (Michigan State University‚ 2008) p. 418-429. Tobin‚ Joanna‚ Democracy and the Individual: Emerson’s Urgent Call to Self-Reliance

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    Melissa Mulkey American Literature-45 Individual Work Week 2 1/25/13 There are a lot of significant quotes in Emerson’s Self-Reliance essay. The two that I find the most interesting is “we but half express ourselves‚ and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.” The second one I find interesting is “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.” There is also the style of writing‚ tone‚ and imagery he uses in his essay. In his quote‚ “we but half express ourselves

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    Oppaper Romanticism in American Literature‚ Getting to Know Thoreau & Poe Within this paper will be an explanation of the ideals of Romantic writers in Early American Literature. We will also look at some aspects of Romanticism that were uniquely understood by the writers and artists in the United States. There will be a brief discussion of “bright” and “dark” Romantic writing and it is there that we will look at the lives‚ and one poem each‚ of Henry David Thoreau‚ a “bright” romantic writer

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    century before the founding of the United States in 1776‚ and continued mostly in the South until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865. Most slaves were black and were held by whites‚ although some Native Americans and free blacks also held slaves; there were a small number of white slaves as well. . Slavery spread to the areas where there was good-quality soil for large plantations of high-value cash crops‚ such as tobacco‚ cotton‚ sugar‚ and coffee. By the

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    Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 2000‚ Vol. 9‚ No. 3‚ pp. 286–293 0964-704X/00/0903-286$15.00 © Swets & Zeitlinger Epilepsy and Catalepsy in Anglo-American Literature between Romanticism and Realism: Tennyson‚ Poe‚ Eliot and Collins Peter Wolf Epilepsiezentrum Bethel‚ Germany ABSTRACT Epilepsy and catalepsy were not clearly separated in the minds of people in the early 19th century‚ and catalepsy may have been used as a diagnostic euphemism for epilepsy. Tennyson‚ in ‘‘The

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    African American literature paper Gerald Washington ENG/301 4/22/2013 Julie Kares African American literature paper African American writing is outstandingly interesting‚ and very informative. All African American writers observe cultural dealing in related and diverse understandings. The three stories that I decided to talk about in this task is “To my old Master” by Jourdon Anderson‚ “My White Folks Treated us Good” by Marriah Hines‚ and “If we must die” by Claude McKay. In these stories they

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    Postmodernism in American literature The novel Beloved by Toni Morrison often makes us question the credibility of what is being told‚ and uses many striking‚ sudden shifts between the past and present‚ making it difficult to distinguish between reality and fiction. This blurring of the truth is a common element of postmodern fiction. In fact‚ many scholars would say that Beloved is a great example of postmodernism. (Ebrahimi 2005) Morrison uses this technique to bring about the suffering

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    American Literature begins in the early 1600’s with the written works of the new settlers coming from Europe to the New Land of America. Although the Indians lived in America before the first Europeans arrived; their literature was somewhat neglected due to it being transmitted orally with no written works. The American writings of the early seventeenth century possess no great artistic value; they are mainly valuable as a study in origins and understanding America’s early experience. During its

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