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Ralph Waldo Emerson's transcendental writings influenced Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman, whose works are considered the cornerstones of the American literary movement. This title, The American Renaissance, part of Chelsea House Publishers' Bloom's Period Studies series, features a selection of critical essays analyzing the writers and works that defined the American Renaissance. In addition to a chronology of the important cultural, literary, and politcal events that shaped this period, this text includes an introduction and editor's note written ...
Supplement XX: Mary Antin to Phillis Wheatley treats a range of authors from the past and present. The writers here certainly represent a range of backgrounds and critical approaches. Each essay can be accessible to the non-specialist reader or beginning student.
Supplement XVI centers on writers from various genres and traditions who have had little sustained attention from critics, although most are well known. As ever, our purpose in these presenting these articles is to bring readers back to the texts under discussion, to help them in their reading by explaining the contours of a particular writer's career, by providing context.
