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American Renaissanceor New England RenaissancePeriod from the 1830s roughly until the end of the American Civil War in which U.S. literature came of age as an expression of a national spirit. The literary scene was dominated by New England Brahmin writers, notably Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell. Also influential were the Transcendentalists (see Transcendentalism), including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, as well as the great imaginative writers Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Edgar Allan Poe. |
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Writing about Melville and other American Renaissance writers,
Lionel Trilling argued in The Liberal Imagination that our culture is
"dialectic" and that our most representative figures
"contain a large part of the dialectic within themselves, their
meaning and power lying in their contradictions. Roth serves as Furman's bridge figure between the mid-century
Jewish American renaissance and what Furman calls the current revival,
though I would argue that Ozick could fill that space just as handily. It would make sense to apply these different standards to
reassessments of the major writers of the American Renaissance, most of
whom claim to be social critics. |
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