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I don't think that it happened that way really. Americans didn't wake up one day and think... "hey, let's create a whole new division of literature for ourselves. Whoo-hoo!" It was more like people were writing, wherever they lived, and people were reading it... it wasn't until someone decided to teach classes about it, or market it, that it needed to be distinguished as "American" or "British" literature. As for why it was the 1820s... think that is an arbitrary date, but you couldn't really have American Literature before there was an independent group over here. I think 1820 is too late, because there are definitely American documents from before that... but again, it is just an arbitrary division that someone probably made to make it easier to teach an American Lit class.
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∙ 9y agoAmerican Literature began in the American colonies, prior to independence. Writing and printing began in Boston, after the printing press became more widely used.
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The relationship between European Romantic writers and American writers in the first half of the 1800s can be categorized as?
American writers largely imitating European Romantics.
Who were some American writers in the early 1800s?
James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne
What was a philosophical school that influenced a lot of American writers during the first half of the 1800s?
Transcendentalism.
Why do you think the literature and art of the mid-1800s are still valued?
I think that the lituature and the art of the mid 1800s are still valued because of the succes they had even before
What is the name of any famous Japanese writers from the 1800s?
Aoi Kishitani
How did the writers of the 1800s shape modern literature?
They shaped it by using romanticism
How did the writers of the mid-1800s shape modern literature?
Writers in the mid-1800s, such as Charles Dickens and Jane Austen, introduced themes of social injustice, individualism, and realism that continue to influence modern literature. Their focus on character development and societal issues laid the foundation for the development of psychological depth and complex storytelling techniques in contemporary literature.
The relationship between European Romantic writers and American writers in the first half of the 1800s can be categorized as?
American writers largely imitating European Romantics.
American literature in the 1800s often focused on?
the wars going on at the time.
Who were some American writers in the early 1800s?
James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne
What was unique about subject matter that American artist and writers of the mid-1800s used?
it was made at your moms house
What was a philosophical school that influenced a lot of American writers during the first half of the 1800s?
Transcendentalism.
What was unique about the subject matter the American artists and writers of the mid-1800s used?
The painters showed their love of their country in marvelous landscape paintings.
Why do you think the literature and art of the mid-1800s still valued?
I think the literature and art of the mid-1800s are still valued today because it was influential to our literature and art and it was the base of all literature and art.
Why do you think the literature and art of the mid-1800s are still valued?
I think that the lituature and the art of the mid 1800s are still valued because of the succes they had even before
What is the name of any famous Japanese writers from the 1800s?
Aoi Kishitani
What were readers of the 1800s interested in that caused them to like sea stories and other travel tales by writers such as Herman Melville?
Readers of the 1800s interested in the foreign and exotic caused them to like sea stories and other travel tales by writers such as Herman Melville.
