It quickly became evident that the search for native literature became a national obsession. ... Up until the early 17th century, American literature was chiefly about politics, religion, and recorded events. ... Bradstreet was the first to write about personal matters, which is her greatest literary contribution in early American literature. ... He was the first author in American literature to make the neurotic, the heroic figure, the protagonist, in his stories. ... From rebellion, to common sense, to common horror, while America was struggling to free, native authors were struggling to ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He is someone that can be looked back on, and seen as the American Conscience of the 19th Century. ... Whitman left quite and impression and indentation on the American public and literature with this lengthy poetry. ... He talks about politics, natives, nature, caves, the city, music, and much more. In Whitman's writings, he directs the American Public to see the good, and as a result do what is right. ... Walt Whitman is a distinguishable man that opened up literature simultaneously with America....

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• Grade Level: High School

Because of the hundreds of Irish and American people looking for work not many jobs were needed to fill. ... From the nineteenth century Literature Criticism one essay by Charles A. Dana quotes, " His language is too frequently reckless and indecent, though this appears to arise frames native unconsciousness rather than from and impure mind" (Dana 535). ... Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism Vol.4. ... American Writers Vol. 5. 1997 Ed...

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• Grade Level: High School

James Arthur Baldwin was an American poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and social critic. ... This day was portray in one of his essays called, "Notes of a Native Son". ... His move was not only the desire to distance himself from American prejudice, but to see himself and his writing beyond an African-American context. ... In 1983 he accepted Professorship of Literature and Afro-American Studies at the Five College Network in Amherst, Massachusetts. ... Delving into his own life, he provided a look at the black experience in America through such works as Notes of a Native Son a...

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• Grade Level: High School

Richard Rodriguez is one of America's most celebrated essayist and journalist. ... Now, Richard Rodriguez was born in 1944 a native of San Francisco, California. ... He then pursued a doctorate in English Renaissance literature at Berkley and spent a year in London on a Fulbright Scholarship. ... She would recommends Rodriguez's work to any one that is a lover a literature. 5. ... There are critics that focus on his literature as using the same plot and setting all the time, which mainly concentrates on his life growing up. ...

• Word Count: 1466
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• Grade Level: High School

Again, Percy uses another example, this one of an American couple in Mexico. ... In doing so, they stumble upon a group of natives. Observing wonderful native rituals, they believe they have found "It." ... They will not be watching the natives this time, but their friends, almost bragging and one-upping them. ... Because the first man reads for the sheer pleasure of reading a great new piece of literature. ...

• Word Count: 2207
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School