Con esta unidad 5 terminamos las clases presenciales, y el curso. Recordad que también tenéis disponibles los materiales en red de las unidades 6-7-8.
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Ya tenemos FECHA DE EXAMEN de la primera convocatoria:
Introducción a la literatura inglesa, examen 3 Feb. 2022, 10-13h, aula 1 edificio central de Filosofía y Letras.
Recordad que el examen teórico tiene una sección de preguntas de tipo test, y además un tema a elegir entre dos (siendo uno de los temas uno de los principales autores del programa, y otro una época o género, donde puedan entrar varios autores)
Y la segunda parte, el examen práctico, que también tiene que hacer todo el mundo, es un texto para traducir al español o comentar en inglés. Sin diccionarios, etc. (—se da por hecho que habrá palabras que falten—no matter). Se valoran la precisión, la capacidad de comprensión, y el conocimiento de la materia y del idioma inglés.
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Feliz año nuevo. El 10 y 11 de enero haremos una introducción somera a los principales autores norteamericanos de mediados y finales del XIX, empezando por Melville, Dickinson y Whitman, y siguiendo por Mark Twain, Stephen Crane y Henry James.
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5. LITERATURA NORTEAMERICANA DEL SIGLO XIX
Nuestro último tema presencial (sección A), y que enlaza con el primero de la sección B: Literatura inglesa y norteamericana 1900-1960
Os comunico que está abierto el periodo para
hacer las encuestas sobre esta asignatura, y sobre las demás, en https://janovas.unizar.es/atenea/ate100bienvenida.xhtml
Iremos acabando el curso con unos pocos autores norteamericanos:
Whitman, Mark Twain, Henry James... De todos los
demás
autores del siglo XIX voy dejando apuntes por la web, pero en su
defecto acudid
a los manuales para tener al menos una noción general de su figura y
estilo. Recordad que la literatura del siglo XX (SECCIÓN B) no
entrará para
tema, pero sí para preguntas cortas y opcionalmente para comprensión de texto.
HENRY JAMES
(1843-1916)
Henry James, US/British novelist and essayist; b. New York, son
of Henry James,
Sr.; brother of William and Alice James; irregular international
education, st. law at Harvard; writer for US periodicals, friend of W.
D. Howells; l. Britain 1875-, 1st London, 1898 moved to Rye; unmarried,
repressed homosexual, no sentimental attachments, inveterate socialite;
author of psychological novels, theorist of narrative point of view and
the art of fiction.
_____. Roderick Hudson.
Novel. 1876.
_____. The American. Novel. 1877.
_____. The
Europeans: A Sketch. 1878.
_____. Daisy
Miller. Novella. 1879.
_____. The
Portrait of a Lady. Novel. 1881.
_____. Washington
Square. Novel. 1881.
_____. The Aspern Papers. Novel.
Atlantic (March-May 1888).
_____. The Bostonians. 1886.
_____. The Princess Cassamassima.Novel.
1886. _____. "The Real Thing." Story.
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2715/pg2715.html
_____. "The Middle Years."
Story. 1893.
_____. Guy Domville. Play.
1895.
_____. "The Figure in the Carpet." Story.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/645
_____. The Spoils of Poynton.
Novel. 1897.
_____. What
Maisie Knew. Novel. 1897.
_____. The Turn
of the Screw. Novel. Collier's (January-April 1898).
_____. The Awkward Age.
Novel. 1899.
_____. The Wings
of the Dove. Novel. 1902.
_____. The
Ambassadors. Novel. 1903.
_____. The Golden
Bowl. Novel. 1904.
_____. "The Jolly Corner." Story. In James, The Ghostly Tales.
_____. Notes on Novelists. 1914.
_____. A Small Boy and Others. Memoir.
_____. The Middle Years. Memoir. Online at Project Gutenberg.*
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32649/32649-h/32649-h.htm
_____. The Art of the Novel: Critical Essays.
1934.
Richard Gray, a chapter on American 19th-c. realism and Henry James: Capturing
the Real Thing.
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- Henry
James: NIVEL AVANZADO
- Una
película de James Ivory sobre una novela de Henry James: The
Bostonians (con subtítulos en español).
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STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900)
US journalist and man of letters, b. New Jersey, youth in upstate New
York, st. Lafayette College and Syracuse U, no degree, reporter in NY
City for the Herald and Tribune; sucess with Red Badge,
war reporter in Cuba and shipwreck; back to NY, common-law
wife Cora, bohemian atmosphere, notorious; reporter
in the
Greco-Turkish war with Cora, travelled to England,
decreased power as
writer, d. of tuberculosis while on cure in Germany.
_____. Maggie: A
Girl of the
Streets. Novel. 1893.
_____. The Red
Badge of Courage: An
Episode of the American Civil War. Novel. 1895.
_____. The
Black Riders and Other Lines. Poems. 1895.
_____. The Little Regiment and Other
Stories of the American Civil War.
Stories. 1896.
_____. George's Mother.
Novel. 1896.
_____. The Open
Boat, and Other Tales
of Adventure. 1898.
_____. "The Monster" and Other
Stories. 1899.
_____. War is Kind. Poems.
1899.
_____. Whilomville Stories.
1900.
_____. Wounds in the Rain.
Stories and sketches. 1900.
Notes
on Stephen Crane from The Oxford
Companion to American Literature.
Stephen Crane. In The Literature
Network
http://www.online-literature.com/crane/
_____. The Red Badge of
Courage. Online at Project Gutenberg.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/73/73-h/73-h.htm
A poem from Stephen Crane's The
Black Riders (1895):
I STOOD UPON A HIGH PLACE,
AND SAW, BELOW, MANY DEVILS
RUNNING, LEAPING,
AND CAROUSING IN SIN.
ONE LOOKED UP, GRINNING,
AND SAID: "COMRADE! BROTHER!"
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Late 19th-c. American Literature
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MARK TWAIN (1835-1910)
_____. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches. 1867.
_____. The Innocents Abroad. Satirical travel narrative. 1869.
_____. Roughing It. Frontier sketches. 1872.
_____. The Gilded Age. Novel. 1873. (With C. D. Warner).
_____. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Children's novel. 1876.
_____. A Tramp Abroad. 1880.
_____. The Prince and the Pauper. Historical novel. 1882.
_____. Life on the Mississippi. 1883.
_____. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Novel. 1884.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/76/76-h/76-h.htm
_____. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Fantasy novel. 1889.
_____. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson. Detective story. 1894.
_____. Following the Equator. Travel sketches. 1897.
_____. What Is Man? Philosophical dialogue. 1906.
_____. The Mysterious Stranger. 1916.
_____. Letters from the Earth. Ed. Bernard De Voto. 1963. (Satan as foreign visitor).
_____. Autobiography. Uncensored ed. Pub. 2010, 2013.
http://www.marktwainproject.org/landing_writings.shtml
2013
Mark Twain, pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, US novelist, journalist and humourist; b. Florida, Missouri; childhood in Hannibal; l. Philadelphia, St. Louis, Hartford, etc.; printer and popular writer, affluent; friend of William Dean Howells; bankrupt 1894 though bad printing investments; travelled round the world as successful lecturer; frontier humorist, evolves from American optimism to disillusioned pessimism, critic of imperialism and religious beliefs, d. Hartford, CT.
Hart and Leininger. "Mark Twain." (From the Oxford Companion to American Literature):
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/12/mark-twain.html
La autobiografía de Mark Twain, obra póstuma recientemente publicada, en el sitio del Mark Twain. Una presentación: El blog de Mark Twain.
Y pensamientos anticristianos de Mark Twain sobre Dios y la religión.
Un texto en red de The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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NIVEL AVANZADO
A lecture on The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
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Una canción de la Guerra Civil
norteamericana: The Battle Hymn of the Republic, de Julia Ward
Howe:
Un documental sobre EMILY DICKINSON
EMILY DICKINSON
(1830-1886)
Emily Dickinson, US poet, spinster, recluse. Daughter of Edward
Dickinson, lawyer in
Amherst, MA; st. Amherst Academy, and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary;
skeptic and unworldly disposition; l.
secluded at home from 1862, intense friendships and epistolary
relationships with Benjamin F. Newton, Rev. Charles Wadsworth, T. W.
Higginson and others; did not publish in her lifetime, wrote for
herself experimenting with the expression of complex everyday feelings
and metaphysical symbolism.
_____. "After Great Pain, a Formal
Feeling Comes." Poem.
_____. "Because I Could Not Stop for Death."
_____. "There's been a Death, in the Opposite House."
_____. "The Soul Selects Her Own Society."
_____. "There is no Frigate like a Book."
_____. "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain."
_____. "I started Early—Took my Dog."
_____. "Much Madness is Divinest Sense."
_____. "A Light exists in Spring."
_____. Poems by Emily Dickinson.
1890-96, etc. (1955).
Una conferencia de Laura Freixas: Emily Dickinson:una genia con habitación propia.
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NIVEL AVANZADO
-
EMILY DICKINSON (NIVEL AVANZADO)
-
SOME AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS
- Un audio histórico sobre LA
GUERRA DE SECESIÓN AMERICANA (nivel avanzado)
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WALT WHITMAN
(1819-1892)
Walt Whitman, US poet, influenced by Transcendentalism, writer of
celebratory pantheistic free verse;
egotistic democrat, patriot and homosexual.
_____. "Song of Myself."
In Whitman, Leaves of Grass. 1855.
_____. Leaves of
Grass. 1855-1892.
_____. "Song of the Broad-Axe." Poem from Leaves of Grass.
_____. "Starting
from Paumanok." Poem from Leaves of Grass.
_____. "Once I Passed through a Populous City." Poem from Leaves of Grass.
_____. "O Captain! My Captain!" Elegy on Lincoln. From Drum Taps & sequel 1867.
_____. "Pioneers! O Pioneeers." From Leaves of Grass.
_____. Democratic Vistas.
Prose. 1871. (American literature; Transcendentalism; Politics;
Commerce; Nature; Nature of literature)
_____. Memoranda during the War.
Prose. 1875.
_____. "Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand." Poem. From Leaves of Grass.
_____. "Years of
the Modern." Poem. From Leaves
of Grass.
Notes on WALT WHITMAN: http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/12/walt-whitman.html
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Walt
Whitman: NIVEL AVANZADO
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HERMAN MELVILLE
(1819-1891)
Herman
Melville, US
novelist, b. New York, sailor in the Atlantic and the Pacific
1839-44, l. Boston, schoolteacher and customs officer, friend of
Nathaniel Hawthorne, traveled to Holy
Land, commercially unsuccessful after early best-sellers, frustrated
man of letters, neglected in the late 19th, rediscovered in the 20th c.
_____. Typee. Novel. 1846.
_____. Omoo: A Narrative of
Adventures in the South Seas. Novel. 1847.
_____. Redburn: His First Voyage.
Novel. 1848.
_____. Mardi: And a Voyage Thither.
Novel. 1849.
_____. White-Jacket; or, The World
in a Man-of-War. Novel. 1850.
_____. Moby-Dick:
or, The Whale. Novel. 1851.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2701
_____. Pierre, or the Ambiguities.
Novel. 1852.
_____. "Benito Cereno." Story. In Melville, The Piazza Tales. 1856.
_____. "Bartleby the Scrivener."
Story. In The Piazza Tales.
1856.
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11231/pg11231.html
_____. The Confidence-Man: His
Masquerade. Satirical narrative. 1857.
_____. Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage
to the Holy Land. Long poem. 1876.
_____. Billy
Budd, Sailor. Novel.
Posth. 1924.
Some notes on HermanMelville and his works.
Herman Melville on Wikipedia
Moby Dick, or, The Whale. Online at Project Gutenberg.*
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2701
White whales are rare. But they do exist.
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Hawthorne and Melville, from Richard Gray's History of American literature.
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Martes 21 de diciembre: pasaremos rápidamente por encima de cuatro autores: Poe, Emerson & Thoreau, apenas mencionados, y Hawthorne.
En la única semana de enero, veremos los autores norteamericanos de mediados del siglo XIX. Durante las vacaciones se completarán en la web los temas de los autores por si acaso no nos da tiempo a verlos en clase.
Los
temas de la sección B (literatura del siglo XX, no presencial) ya están
también disponibles al completo en la columna de la derecha.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-1864)
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
New England romance and short story writer, b.
Salem, of an old
Puritan family—orig. Hathorne, wife Sophia, 3 children, customs
officer,
and diplomat in England; Transcendentalist affinities, friend of
Melville and Emerson; d. Plymouth.
_____. Fanshawe: A Tale.
1828.
_____. "Young Goodman Brown." Story. 1835
_____. "The Minister's Black Veil." Story. 1837.
_____. "Wakefield." Story. 1837.
_____. "Endicott and the Red Cross." Story. 1837.
_____.
Twice-Told
Tales. 1837, enlarged 1842.
_____. "Rappacini's Daughter." Story.
In Mosses from an Old Manse.
_____. "Roger Malvin's Burial."
Story. In Mosses
from an Old Manse.
_____. Mosses from an Old Manse.
Stories. 1846.
_____. The Scarlet Letter. Romance.
1850.
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33/pg33.html
_____. "Ethan Brand." Story. 1851.
_____. The House of the Seven
Gables. Romance. 1851.
_____. The Blithedale Romance.
1852.
_____. A Wonder Book.
Children's stories. 1852.
_____. Tanglewood
Tales. Children's
stories. 1853.
_____. The Marble Faun, or the
Romance of Monte Beni. 1860.
_____. Our Old Home. Essays
on England. 1853.
_____. Dr. Grimshawe's Secret. Romance.
1882.
Some
notes on Hawthorne
________
The
Scarlet Letter. Una película de 1934 sobre la
novela de Hawthorne.
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NIVEL AVANZADO:
Una
lección sobre The Scarlet Letter de Hawthorne—de la Universidad de
Houston.
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Two narratives on slavery:
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin. Novel. 1852.
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself. 1845.
"Frederick Douglass." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass
2014
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HENRY DAVID
THOREAU
(1817-1862)
US writer, naturalist,
Transcendentalist-anarchist-primitivist-pacifist; b. Concord, MA; grad.
Harvard 1817, influenced by E. T. Channing, Jones Very and Bronson
Alcott; friend, employee and disciple of Emerson, l. lived in a hut in
the woods in Walden 1845-47; teacher and anti-slavery activist,
unmarried without sex life, probably repressed homosexual, met John
Brown and Whitman,
travelled to the Great Lakes and Mississippi 1861, d. of tuberculosis.
_____. "Resistance to Civil Government." 1849. Retitled
"Civil Disobedience."
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/71/71-h/71-h.htm
_____. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. 1849. New York:
Modern Library, 1946.
_____. "Slavery in Massachusetts." 1854.
_____. Walden or Life in the Woods. 1854.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/205/205-h/205-h.htm
Walden, Audiobook.
http://youtu.be/VcNccA9gu2g
_____. "A Plea for Captain John Brown." Lecture. 1859.
_____. Excursions. 1863.
_____. Journal. 14 vols. 1906.
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RALPH WALDO
EMERSON
(1803-1882)
New England Transcendentalist thinker, poet and essayist, came from a
Unitarian family; soon widowed, abandoned the Church, influential and
prolific lecturer and diarist, emphasizes first-hand apprehension of
religion and experience.
_____. Journals. 1820-
_____. "Brahma."
Poem.
_____. "The
American Scholar: An Oration." 1837.
_____. "Divinity School Address".
1838.
_____. "The Transcendentalist." In Essays.
_____. "History."
In Essays.
_____. "Self-Reliance."
In Essays.h
_____. "The Over-Soul." In Essays.
_____. "Character." In Essays.
_____. "The Poet." In
Essays.
_____. Essays:
First and Second series. 1841, 1844.
_____. "Emancipation in the West Indies." 1844.
_____. "John Brown." 1859.
_____. "Thoreau." 1862.
Some notes on Emerson (Oxford Companion to American Literature)
"Ralph Waldo Emerson." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson
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Emerson:
NIVEL AVANZADO
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EDGAR
ALLAN POE
(1809-1849)
Edgar Allan Poe, US short story
writer,
poet and critic; born in Boston, son
of British actress Elizabeth Arnold Poe and American actor David Poe,
father left, mother died 1811; lived with tobacco exporter John Allan
and wife, renamed Edgar Allan Poe, not adopted; travel to Britain with
the
Allans, school in England 1815-20, attends U of Virginia 1826; gambler,
leaves U; quarrels with Allan over debts, enlists in the Army,
reconciled with
Allan after wife's death, expelled from West Point military academy for
gambling, disobedience and drink; lives with aunt Maria Clemm,
Baltimore, 1831-35, miserable life, journalist, poverty; Allan dies
1834 leaving him nothing; journalist at Southern Literary Messenger,
marries 13-year old cousin Virginia Clemm 1835/6; l. New York 1837-38,
then Philadelphia, and back to NY; editorial jobs at Burton's
Gentleman's Magazine, Graham's Magazine, New York Evening Mirror,
Broadway Journal; distressed by young wife's ill health, widowed
1847;
alcoholic, deep-seated emotional conflicts, 1848-49, in love with poet
Sarah Helen Whitman and Mrs. Charles Richmond, engaged to his former
teenage
love Sara Royster Shelton; d. Baltimore after a fit of drunkenness.
Works: Poems
_____. Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems.
1829.
_____. Poems by Edgar A. Poe 1831.
("Israfel," "To Helen," "The City in
the Sea," etc.).
_____. The Raven
and Other Poems. 1845.
_____. A Complete
Collection of Poems by Edgar Allan Poe. ("Dream-land")
Works: Individual tales
_____. "Morella."
Short story. 1835.
_____. "Berenice." Short story. 1835.
_____. "Ligeia." Short story. 1838.
_____. The
Narrative of Arthur Gordon
Pym of Nantucket. Novel. 1838.
_____. "The Fall of the House of
Usher." Short story. 1839.
_____. "William Wilson." Short
story. (1839).
_____. Tales of the Grotesque
and the Arabesque. 1840.
_____. "The Murders in the Rue
Morgue." Short story. 1841.
_____. "The Masque of the Red Death." Short story. Graham's Magazine
(1842).
_____. "Eleonora." Story. In Poe, The Gift. 1842.
_____. "The Pit and the Pendulum."
Short story. The Gift. 1843.
_____. "The Gold-Bug." Story. 1843.
_____. "The Tell-Tale Heart."
Short story. 1843.
_____. "The Balloon-Hoax." 1844.
_____. "The Purloined Letter." Short
story. 1845.
_____. "The Black Cat." Short story. 1843.
_____. "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar." Short story. 1845.
_____. "The Premature Burial." 1850.
_____. Tales.
1845.
Essays:
_____. "The Philosophy of
Composition." 1846.
_____. "The Poetic Principle." 1848.
_____. Eureka: A Prose Poem.
1848.
Edgar Allan Poe: poeta
irremediable
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NIVEL AVANZADO:
- Edgar Allan Poe: Nivel avanzado
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Lunes 20 hablaremos de los primeros autores norteamericanos: Irving y Cooper.
Ya tenemos FECHA DE EXAMEN de la primera convocatoria:
Introducción a la Literatura inglesa - 3 Feb. 2022, 10-13h, aula 1 Central FYL
Recordad que el examen teórico tiene una sección de preguntas de tipo test, y además un tema a elegir entre dos (siendo uno de los temas uno de los principales autores del programa, y otro una época o género, donde puedan entrar varios autores)
Y la segunda parte, el examen práctico, que también tiene que hacer todo el mundo, es un texto para traducir al español o comentar en inglés. Sin diccionarios, etc. (—se da por hecho que habrá palabras que falten—no matter). Se valoran la precisión, la capacidad de comprensión, y el conocimiento de la materia y del idioma inglés.
___________________
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
(1789-1851)
James Fenimore Cooper,
US novelist, born in Burlington, NJ, son of William Cooper,
founder of Cooperstown; dismissed from Yale; seaman for several years,
married, gentleman farmer, successful novelist, moved to New York City,
US consul at Lyon, travelled in Europe 1826-33, defender of
republicanism in Europe, and conservative aristocratic Federalist back
in USA; moved back to Cooperstown, disillusioned with American democracy; father of Susan Fenimore Cooper.
_____. Precaution.
Novel. 1820.
_____. The Spy: A
Tale of the Neutral Ground. Historical romance. 1821.
_____. The Pioneers; Or, The Sources
of the Susquehanna. Romance. 1923. (Leatherstocking Series, part
4).
_____. The Pilot. Romance.
1823.
_____. The
Last
of the Mohicans. Novel. 1826. (Leatherstocking series, part 2).
_____. The
Prairie: A Tale. 1827. (Leather-Stocking series, part 5).
_____. The Red Rover.
Romance. 1827.
_____. Notions of the Americans. Essay.
1828.
_____. The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish.
Romance. 1829.
_____. The Water-Witch.
Romance. 1830.
_____. A Letter to General Lafayette.
Discourse. 1831.
_____. The Bravo. Historical
romance. 1831.
_____. The Heidenmauer, or, The
Benedictines. Historical romance. 1832.
_____. The Headsman, or, The Abbaye
des Vignerons. Romance. 1833.
_____. A Letter to His Countrymen.
Discourse. 1834.
_____. The Monikins.
Satirical allegory. 1835.
_____. The American Democrat, or
Hints on the Social and Civil
Relations of the United States of America. Political theory.
1838.
_____. Homeward Bound; or, The Chase.
Novel. 1838.
_____. Home as Found. Novel.
1838. (Sequel to Homeward Bound).
_____. History of the Navy.
History. 1839.
_____. The Pathfinder, or The Inland
Sea. Romance. 1840.
(Leather-stocking series, part 3)
_____. The
Deerslayer. Novel. 1841. (Leatherstocking series, Part 1).
_____. Wing-and-Wing.
Romance. 1842.
_____. Le Mouchoir. 1843.
Retitled The Autobiography of a
Pocket-Handkerchief.
_____. Wyandotté, or the Hutted
Knoll. A Tale. 1843.
_____. Afloat and Ashore. Romance.
1844.
_____. Miles Wallingford.
Romance. 1844. (Sequel to Afloat and
Ashore).
_____. Satanstoe. Novel.
1845. (Littlepage Manuscripts, 1).
_____. The Chainbearer. Novel.
1845. (Littlepage Manuscripts, 2).
_____. The
Redskins, or, Indian and Injin. Novel. 1846. (Littlepage
Manuscripts, 3).
_____. The Crater. 1848.
(Social utopia).
_____. The Oak Openings, or, The
Bee-Hunter. Romance. 1848.
_____. The Ways of the Hour. Novel.
1850.
La marcha hacia el oeste - James Fenimore Cooper
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NIVEL AVANZADO
Más sobre Fenimore Cooper en la
Wikipedia:
"James
Fenimore Cooper." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fenimore_Cooper
–o en esta introducción del Oxford
Companion to American Literature sobre su vida y obras:
James Fenimore Cooper.
Irving
& Cooper - NIVEL AVANZADO
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WASHINGTON
IRVING (1783-1859)
Washington Irving, US man of letters, b. New York city,
wealthy middle
class,
Revolutionary family background; youngest of 11 children; wrote after
brothers William and Peter; law career; traveller in upper NY and
Canada; journalist at Peter's
Morning Chronicle and Corrector;
satirical sketches of NY society, left legal profession, travelled in
Europe 1804-6, pursued lit. career in NY, Federalist ideology,
celebrated author; fiancée Matilda Hoffman died (and Irving never
married); political involvement during the War, then took charge of
Liverpool family business, went bankrupt; wrote for a living, met
Scott, Byron, Moore, travelled in Paris, in Germany, loved Emily Foster
in Paris, lived in England, France, courted Mary Shelley; diplomat in
Madrid, travels in Spain; diplomat again in London, and back to
Sunnyside, NY, after 17 years; tour on the Western frontier; political
connections, returned as ambassador to Spain, retired to Sunnyside,
turned historian, celebrated as classic.
_____. "Letters
of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent." Morning
Chronicle (1802-3). (Satires on New York society).
_____. Salmagundi; or, The
Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq., and Others.
Satirical sketches. Periodical pamphlets, 1807-8. Book, 1808.
(Pseudonymous writings, in collaboration with William and Peter Irving,
and with brother-in-law J. K. Paulding).
_____. A History
of New York, from the
Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich
Knickerbocker. 1809. Rev. 1812, 1819, 1848. (Ps. "Diedrich
Knickerbocker"). http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13042
_____. "Westminster Abbey." In Irving, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon.
_____. "The Christmas Dinner." In Irving, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon.
_____. "Stratford-on-Avon." In Irving, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon.
_____. "John Bull." In Irving, The
Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. 1819-20.
_____. "The Stage-Coach." In Irving, The
Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. 1819-20.
_____. "Rip van Winkle." In
Irving, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey
Crayon. 1819-20.
_____. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
In Irving, The Sketch Book of
Geoffrey Crayon. 1820.
_____. "English Writers of America." In Irving, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. 1819-20.
_____. "Traits of Indian Character." In Irving, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. 1819-20.
_____. (Ps. "Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.") The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. Miscellany
of tales and essays. Serialized in USA,
1819-20.
_____. (Ps. "Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.") Bracegirdle
Hall; or, The Humorists: A Medley. Tales and sketches.
1822.
_____.
Tales
of a
Traveller. 1824.
_____. History of the Life and Voyages of
Christopher Columbus. 1828. (Based on Navarrete).
_____. The
Alhambra: A Series of Tales and Sketches of the Moors and Spaniards.
1832. 1852.
_____. A Tour of the Prairies.
Travel book. Vol. 1 of The Crayon Miscellany. 1835.
_____. Legends of
the Conquest of Spain. Vol.
2 of The Crayon Miscellany. 1835.
_____. The Crayon Miscellany.
3 vols. 1835.
_____. Astoria. 1836. Rev.
1849. (History of John Jacob Astor; written with Pierre Irving).
_____. The Adventures of Captain
Bonneville, U.S.A. 1837. (Sequel to Astoria).
_____. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith.
1840.
_____. A Book of the Hudson. Sketches.
1849.
_____. Mahomet
and
His Successors. Biographies. 2 vols. 1849-50.
_____. Life of Washington. 5 vols.
1855-59.
Washington
Irving: Vida y obras.
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American literature before 1800
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Naufragios
y Comentarios. 1542.
Richard Hakluyt (the younger, 1552-1616). Discourse Concerning
Western Planting. c. 1600.
Alexander Whitaker (fl. 1617). Good
Newes from Virginia. 1617.
John Smith (1580-1631). A True
Relation of Virginia. 1608.
_____. A Description of New England.
1616.
_____. The Generall Historie of
Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles. 1624.
_____. The True Travels, Adventures,
and Observations of Captaine John Smith. 1630.
William Bradford (1590-1657). Of
Plymouth Plantation. 1630.
John Winthrop (1588-1649). A
Modell of Christian Charity. 1630.
John Cotton et al. The Bay Psalm
Book. 1640.
Anne Bradstreet. (1612?-1672). The
Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America. London, 1650.
John Eliot, The Christian
Commonwealth. 1659.
_____. Eliot Indian Bible.
1663.
Edward Taylor, The Poetical Works
of Edward Taylor. c. 1680, pub. 1939.
Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi
Americana, or the Ecclesiastical History of New England. 1702.
Ebenezer Cook, The Sot-Weed Factor.
1708.
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758). A
Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God. 1737.
Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790). Autobiography.
(Posth.). 1818.
Philip Freneau, (1752-1832). The
Rising Glory of America. 1771. Rev. 1786.
Thomas Paine, Common
Sense. 1776.
_____. The Rights of Man.
1791.
_____. The Age of Reason.
1794.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the
State of Virginia.
1787.
Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820). "Of the
Equality of the Sexes." 1779-1790.
Phillis Wheatley, Poems. London,
1773.
Sansom Occom (1723-1792). Collection
of Hymns and Spiritual Songs. 1774.
Olaudah Equiano,
The Interesting Narrative of the Life
of
Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself.
1787.
Jupiter Hammon (1711-1806?). Address
to the Negroe: In the State of New
York. 1787.
Royall Tyler, The Contrast.
Drama. 1787.
Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1746-1816). Modern
Chivalry. Sketches.
1792-1815.
Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland:
or, The Transformation. Novel. 1798.
Joel Barlow, The Columbiad.
Epic. 1807.
Francis Scott Key, "The Star Spangled Banner", the
national anthem of the United States of America.
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