American Renaissance (literature)

American Renaissance is a coined by FO Matthiessen name of literature, more specifically, the American Studies, for the period 1836-1861. During this time many of the novels were written, are now seen as a major masterpieces of American literature, including Moby - Dick by Herman Melville.

The most important representatives of the American Renaissance, in addition Melville ( and also requires Edgar Allan Poe ) the Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller. The term " American Renaissance " refers to the European Renaissance, is meant a period of artistic and social change.

Criticism

The formulated by Matthiessen canon is seen from the literature today critical because it exclusively male, white and includes authors such as Poe excludes.

Swell

• FO Matthiessen: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman. 1941

• Literature (United States)