His early journal "Walden" is based on the author's 2-year stay in a cabin he build himself on the shore of apond (called Walden), on Emerson's property.This work deals, among others, with the separation of morality from Christianity. ... "Walden" is also Thoreau's description how he learned to "live deliberately" and an expression of his own awereness of the importance of the present moment. ...
The events of American history are very much connected to the influence of American literature and what it has become today. The inspiration that a writer needs is mostly gathered by the effects of the world around him/her, and this is how the geography and history of America have made an impact...
American Renaissance Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," belongs to the period known as American romanticism, the period called, by F.O. Matthiessen, the American Renaissance. The American Renaissance took place roughly from 1840-1865, though the most significant work of this period was prod...
American culture after the Revolutionary War was one of change. After securing freedom from King George III, the former colonists began to develop their own sense of national identity. With this recent individuality came new innovations such as the cotton gin, which cemented slavery as the cornersto...
