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	English 251: American Lit. (1600-1865)
		This was James Fenimore Cooper's assessment of the state of American literature, in 1828.
		To anyone who has read, for example, Crevecoeur's thesis about the American's special relationship with wilderness, and thought for a moment about Crevecoeur's assertion that "men are like plants," the idea that distinctly American landscapes would breed a uniquely American literature hardly surprises.
		And the answers, generated from a twin sense of American prosperity and American anxiety, often paused over the alarming historical fact that the prosperity of all previous empires had been exactly what foretold their awful collapse.
	www.uky.edu /AS/English/courses/online/eng251/assignment00c.html (1955 words)

	Harlem Renaissance - MSN Encarta
		In fact, a major accomplishment of the Renaissance was to push open the door to mainstream white periodicals and publishing houses, although the relationship between the Renaissance writers and white publishers and audiences created some controversy.
		Furthermore, the existence of the body of African American literature from the Renaissance inspired writers such as Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright to pursue literary careers in the late 1930s and the 1940s.
		The outpouring of African American literature of the 1980s and 1990s by such writers as Alice Walker and Toni Morrison also had its roots in the writing of the Harlem Renaissance.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566483/Harlem_Renaissance.html (1714 words)

	The Mount: Edith Wharton and the American Renaissance
		The Mount: Edith Wharton and the American Renaissance
		American history was not a standard part of the school curriculum.
		Thus, in the late nineteenth century, many American artists and architects began to study the works of the Italian Renaissance (1420-1580), a period of renewed interest in the art, architecture, and literature of classical antiquity.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA01/Davis/wharton/renaissance/renaissance.html (422 words)

	CPL - Chicago Renaissance - Introduction
		In the early 1930's, as the famed Harlem Renaissance of fl cultural achievement was winding down, a new surge of African American creativity, activism and scholarship began to flower in the South Side Chicago district then becoming known as "Bronzeville".
		This new "Chicago Renaissance" was fueled by two unprecedented social and economic conditions: the "great migration" of Southern fls to Chicago in search of economic opportunity and perceived safety from lynch mob rule, and the crisis of the Great Depression which followed.
		In addition to the national impact of its creative achievements, one of the most distinguishing features of the Chicago Renaissance was the extraordinary integration of developments in the humanities and social sciences with each other, and with the heightened political awareness of the period.
	www.chipublib.org /digital/chiren/introduction.html (551 words)

	PAL: Harlem Renaissance: A Brief Introduction
		Harlem Renaissance (HR) is the name given to the period from the end of World War I and through the middle of the 1930s Depression, during which a group of talented African-American writers produced a sizable body of literature in the four prominent genres of poetry, fiction, drama, and essay.
		Harlem Renaissance: An Assessment from Huggins, Nathan I. Harlem Renaissance.
		The "renaissance" echoed American progressivism in its faith in democratic reform, in its belief in art and literature as agents of change, and in its almost uncritical belief in itself and its future.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap9/9intro.html (1886 words)

	SkyMinds.Net (American Literature: The American Renaissance: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel ...
		The history of Salem and American Puritanism presented the context in which he developed his ideas about human nature and the ambivalent nature of human psychology, and about sin and guilt, the dangers of the intellect and the risks of passion.
		Hawthorne is a romantic author whose short stories and novels are marked by a concern with the American past with the role of the creative artist in a materialistic society.
		The new American poet would avoid sentimental poetry and simplistic moralization: he is no longer a moral teacher.
	www.skyminds.net /lit_us/04_american_renaissance.php (1464 words)

	Intro to American Romanticism
		For many years, this period and these writers were known as the American Renaissance, a coin termed by F.O. Matthiessen in his book of that name in 1941.
		It is a misnomer, if one thinks of the period as a time of rebirth of some earlier literary greatness, as the European Renaissance, because there was nothing to be "reborn." The great writers of this period, roughly 1840-1865 although more particularly 1850-1855, marked the first maturing of American letters.
		It was a Renaissance in the sense of a flowering, excitement over human possibilities, and a high regard for individual ego.
	www.vcu.edu /engweb/eng372/intro.htm (1557 words)

	MySpace.com - AMERICAN FILM RENAISSANCE - 28 - Male - Beverly Hills, CALIFORNIA - www.myspace.com/americanrenaissance
		Enough String Theory and postmodern poetry--the Renaissance is a rising.
		Own the risk--own the risk of a renaissance.
		And sometimes you've got to be the cowboy--ride into town, call the bluff, and face the music in the showdown.
	myspace.com /americanrenaissance (2252 words)

	Slavery, Revolution, and the American Renaissance
		The spirit of American mission that legitimized war with Mexico and prompted self-congratulation that 1776 was the source of current "democratic" revolutions in Europe in 1848 also prompted patriotic defenses of moderation, even fire-eating, on the question of slavery.
		As the American Revolution is for Hawthorne a return to the strength of betrayed Puritan principles in which the rebellious patriot shadows forth the grim features of his forefathers, so manifest destiny is here part of the "continued miracle" of America, and union the state of grace ordained by the sacred document, the Constitution.
		But as her depiction of Tom suggests, nothing in American culture was more infused with the doubleness at the heart of slavery than the sentimental ideal of domesticity and no "home" more threatened by violent dissension than the House of political union.
	www.unl.edu /Price/dickinson/sundquist.html (6725 words)

	Beyond the Harlem Renaissance
		Yet when the distinction is examined more closely, questions arise concerning what one Harlem Renaissance scholar poses as the intimate yet multifarious relationship between the Harlem Renaissance and American Modernism in terms of traditional literary theories and their relation to ethical literary interpretation.
		Like more African American scholarship in the 1970s, Nathan Huggins' groundbreaking comprehensive study of the Renaissance judges the era of the New Negro Renaissance to be an "American failure" because of naive assumptions about the centrality of culture that were unrelated to economic and social realities.
		In the case of theorizing American Modernism, the language of perspicuous contrast is one able to address cultural difference while acknowledging that the experience of one culture is not that of another.
	www.csuohio.edu /english/langston/beyond.html (2927 words)

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		For Locke, the New Negro Renaissance was grounded in the trans-racial experience of Americanism, a view reiterated by Robert Hayden in his Preface to the anthology's reissue in 1968.
		Langston Hughes, born in Joplin, Missouri in 1902, was known as the poet laureate of Harlem.
		In this study for the first panel, a man and woman in Africa dance to the beat of drums as concentric circles of light emphasize the heat and rhythm of their movements.
	www.lycos.com /info/harlem-renaissance--african-americans.html (499 words)

	American Renaissance Pageants
		Each delegate permits her likeness, photographs and name to be used by the American Renaissance Pageant in any and all Publications associated with the national pageant.
		American Renaissance titleholders must be legal residents of the United States and have had a legal address in the State they represent for at least six (6) months (residence at a military activity is acceptable.)
		Former National titleholders of the American Renaissance Pageant are not eligible to compete in the same division, but may re-enter once their status has changed so that they become eligible for a different division.
	www.americanrenaissancepageant.com /enter/rulereg.html (1241 words)

	LITR 4232 UHCL concept of American Renaissance (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In this usage, "Renaissance" means “a flowering" or “a culture on the rise." He limited the American Renaissance to the work of five central figures in a six-year period, 1850-1855, though he also paid brief attention to Emily Dickinson’s work.
		Much of the African American tradition continued to be studied at historically fl colleges and universities.
		As with the European Renaissance, the American Renaissance was marked by the growth of cities, by westward expansion ("Manifest Destiny," including the founding of Texas), by "modernization," especially in terms advances in science, technology, and literacy, and also by a reactionary interest in popular religion and in the occult.
	coursesite.cl.uh.edu /HSH/Whitec/LITR/4232/sylsched/AmRenconcept.htm (565 words)

	Dynamic Syllabi for American Studies (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This course is a survey of American literature from Native American oral traditions to the American Renaissance and is designed to provide insight into the cultural construction of “America” from the perspective of its writers.
		This course is a survey of American literature from the American Renaissance to the present and is designed to provide insight into the cultural construction of “America” from the perspective of its writers.
		This course explores the origins and development of masculinity and femininity in American literature to 1865, paying close attention to how gender and sexuality were used to construct individual, communal, and racial identities and how definitions of transgressive behavior changed during periods of social unrest and cultural anxiety.
	www.georgetown.edu /crossroads/webcourses.html (3968 words)

	Shofar FTP Archives: orgs/american/american-renaissance/stormfront-on-taylor
		White americans have been propping up conservative sellouts for nearly half-a-century, such sellouts and chameleons siphoning off millions of white votes and millions of dollars and the energy and efforts of decent and well-meaning white racialists, to absolutely no positive purpose or result whatsoever.
		But the American Renaissance is instead bent on playing the "good jew/bad jew" game and thwarting any attempt to view the Jews as a collective entity, thus thwarting effective action.
		And it seems the American Renaissance members I talked to have actually succeeded in kidding themselves that AR's fainthearted and ineffective strategy of "deception" is sheer genius and a viable plan for "pulling one over" on the Jews.
	www.vex.net /~nizkor/ftp.py?orgs/american/american-renaissance/stormfront-on-taylor (12363 words)

	American Renaissance Project
		A visit to a Penobscot settlement was all that was needed to spark her interest in Native Americans.
		Wendell Phillips to state in her eulogy that she was, “ready to die for a principle and starve for an idea” (Goodwin 3).
		American threads; some are silk, some synthetic, others bloodstained and threadbare.
	www.orgsites.com /tx/thinktank/_pgg7.php3 (3904 words)

	Antiques : By Period, Style : Renaissance :
		American Renaissance Revival Dore' Bronze Mounted Rosewood Inlaid Table by Pottier & Stymus.
		Large American Renaissance Revival wall/over mantle mirror executed in walnut with burl, gilding, ebonized and incising, and a 2" beveled mirror.
		Handsome Renaissance Revival burled walnut breakfront bookcase by Thomas Brooks.
	search.rubylane.com /antiques/,id=4.5.50,page=4.html (867 words)

	American Renaissance
		The Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance by Arthur Versluis (Oxford University Press) The term "Western esotericism" refers to a wide range of spiritual currents including alchemy, Hermeticism, Kabbala, Rosicrucianism, and Christian theosophy.
		This is precisely what we find behind what has come to be known as the American Renaissance: the efflorescence of brilliant authors in New England, nearly all of whom were heir to and inspired by Western esoteric currents.
		One cannot say that such Western esoteric traditions belong to a category "beneath the American Renaissance," to cite the title of David Reynold's book-such esoteric traditions are intimately woven throughout the American Renaissance, and were much more widespread in America before this period than many scholars have cared to acknowledge.
	www.wordtrade.com /philosophy/history/americanrenaissanceR.htm (1903 words)

	A Fire Bell In The Night
		The primary tactic, here, was to embarrass the leadership of American Renaissance by making them appear ineffective, unable to control their own meeting; while Duke sought to appear as the more effective foe of all that is wrong in the prevailing academic culture.
		But in understanding the tactics he employed against American Renaissance, the possibility of destruction for the sake of destruction, as a motivating factor, can not be ruled out.
		The significance of what a handful of their descendants may have done 700 years later, is on a par with refusing to hire an immigrant from Norway in a nursing home, because you have heard that a suspected "mercy killer" in Oslo smothered his grandmother with a pillow in 1492.
	pages.prodigy.net /krtq73aa/firebell.htm (3910 words)

	Harlem Renaissance Resources (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)
		The images show Americans at home, at work, and at play, with an emphasis on rural and small-town life and the adverse effects of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and increasing farm mechanization.
		William H. Johnson arrived in Harlem in1918 from Florence, South Carolina, at the onset of the Harlem Renaissance.
		Poet and writer Langston Hughes, famous for his elucidations of fl American life in his poems, stories, autobiographies, and histories, was born in Joplin, Missouri, on February 1, 1902.
	www.loc.gov /rr/program/bib/harlem/harlem.html (1736 words)

	Veritas et Venustas: WSJ: An American Renaissance Gem (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The American Renaissance was a "rebirth" of classical art and architecture in the U.S.; the City Beautiful was an urban design and reform movement.
		To the winners go the spoils: Histories of early 20th-century American art and architecture were written by modernist proponents who criticized the achievements of the American Renaissance and City Beautiful designers or ignored them altogether.
		Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers, by architect Witold Rybczynski and landscape architect Laurie Olin, is one of a number of popular and scholarly histories that in the past two decades have sought to redress this ideological imbalance.
	massengale.typepad.com /venustas/2006/12/wsj_an_american.html (2079 words)

	American Literature
		This American Literature unit focuses on the colonial period in literature.
		American Renaissance, Unit Five in the full course sequence for American Literature, has five lessons.
		The House on Mango Street is Unit 13 in the full-course sequence of American literature.
	www.glc.k12.ga.us /seqlps/sudisplay.asp?SUID=200 (735 words)

	American Renaissance
		There was certainly a great deal happening in Greenwich Village during the heyday of a beat cultural scene that took years to develope.
		Greenwich Village had a long literary tradition long before the beats ever arrived, and as San Francisco was exploding into new fronteirs of the mind, a different sort of reanaissance was blooming in the spring winds of New York.
		As the snow rained down upon Greenwich Village, the beginnings of a wonderful art movement were fixing to stir those awakenings of the literary mind.
	www.suite101.com /reference/american_renaissance (405 words)

	IHAS: Artist/Movement/Ideas
		As his words were received with great enthusiasm, Emerson argued not only for a new American culture, freed from European bondage, but also for a rebirth of an intellectual and artistic life that was inextricably bound up with the life of the spirit.
		Even those artists of the American Renaissance who would find difficulty with the optimism of the Transcendentalists--Hawthorne and Melville among them--would be forced to focus on and respond to the existential issues the movement raised.
		This belief in the Inner Light led to an emphasis on the authority of the Self--to Walt Whitman's I, to the Emersonian doctrine of Self-Reliance, to Thoreau's civil disobedience, and to the Utopian communities at Brook Farm and Fruitlands.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/ihas/icon/transcend.html (483 words)

	Landscape and Ideology in American Renaissance Literature - Cambridge University Press
		Abrams explores the underlying frailty of a sense of place in American literature of this period.
		Abrams contends that mid-century American writers ranging from Henry D. Thoreau to Margaret Fuller are especially sensitive to instability of sense of place across the span of American history, and that they are ultimately haunted by an underlying placelessness.
		Many books have explored the variety of aesthetic conventions and ideas that have influenced the American imagination of landscape, but this study introduces the idea of placeless into the discussion, and suggests that it has far-reaching consequences.
	www.cambridge.org /uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521830648 (304 words)

	Literature Department - American University
		She has taught writing at American University since 1987, and has published two novels, When the Wind Blows Hard and Unseen Companion, as well as a number of short stories and articles.
		Professor Leonard's interests include nineteenth and twentieth century American and African American literature, the development of twentieth century African American poetry, the Harlem Renaissance, American modernist poetry and poetics, and the legacy of the Blacks Arts Movement and Black Nationalism for contemporary African American literature.
		At American University, she has been honored with several awards for teaching and scholarship, including the College of Arts and Sciences Award for Outstanding Teaching (twice) and its Senior Scholar Award.
	www.american.edu /cas/lit/about_faculty.cfm (2377 words)

	Digital History
		The 1840s and 1850s witnessed an extraordinary outpouring of literary creativity as American writers abandoned their subservience to foreign models and created a distinctly American literature.
		In 1842, Ralph Waldo Emerson lectured in New York and called for a truly original American poet who could fashion verse out of “the factory, the railroad, and the wharf.” Sitting in Emerson’s audience was a 22-year-old New York printer and journalist named Walt Whitman (1819—1892).
		A sprawling portrait of America, encompassing every aspect of American life, from the steam-driven Brooklyn ferry to the use of ether in surgery, the volume opens not with the author’s name but simply with his daguerreotype (a forerunner of the photograph).
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /database/article_display.cfm?HHID=645 (889 words)

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