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From the fantastic to the real: How American literature lost its monsters

American literature did not begin in restraint—it began in excess. In the nineteenth century, it excelled at the fantastic, embracing the uncanny, the symbolic, and the exaggerated as its primary ...
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The portable nineteenth-century African American women writers / edited with an introduction by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; general editor, Henry Louis Gates, Jr

"Edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this collection comprises work from forty-nine writers arranged into sections of memoir, poetry, and essays on feminism, education, and the legacy ...
NPR

A rare collection of American literature will be auctioned off at Christie's

Bruce Lisman is selling a trove of 18th and 19th-century American books and rarities. His collection offers a rare look into the foundations of American literature. As a kid growing up in Vermont, ...
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Periodical literature in nineteenth-century America / edited by Kenneth M. Price and Susan Belasco Smith

Introduction : Periodical literature in social and historical context / Susan Belasco Smith and Kenneth M. Price -- From Dial essay to New York book : the making of Woman in the nineteenth century / ...
PBS

Nellie and other 19th-century writers

The girl who would later take on the pen name Nellie Bly and help launch a new kind of investigative journalism was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran on May 5, 1864 in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania. The ...

How a Black writer in 19th-century America used humor to combat white supremacy

Any writer has to struggle with the dilemma of staying true to their vision or giving editors and readers what they want. A ...
The Atlantic

The Nineteenth-Century American

NOTHING in all history had ever succeeded like America, and every American in the nineteenth century knew it. Nowhere else on the globe had nature been at once so rich and so generous, and her riches ...