Now, I know that as in the colonial period, the
romantic period also has its own figures or authors that gave a great
contribution to the American literature due to during this period we can not
only find writers that had a good life as Americans but also people who were
slaves, such as: Harriet Jacobs, Frederick
Douglass, Harriet Wilson. For example, Harriet Jacobs was a great example of
the slaves because even being a slave, she was able to escape and hide of
slavery. Then, she was encouraged by Amy Post to write her autobiography
“Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” (VanSpanckeren, 45) and through this writing, she contributed to the literature because it was a serious problen that the US was facing at that time, and these knid of writings helped a lot to the discrimination of black people because with them, they were creating new movements that helped to reach equality betwen white and black American people. Alike, Frederick
Douglass, he also escaped of slavery, and he lecture for anti-slavery societies. He is well-known in this period because he published the best and most
popular of many slave narratives “Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass, An American Slave” (46). According to VanSpanckeren, Douglass’s
narrative is vivid and highly literate, and gives unique insights into the
mentality of slavery and the agony that institution caused among blacks, and
also these authors are important to the American literature because the slave
narrative was the first black literary prose genre in the United States.
martes, 11 de junio de 2013
The Romantic Period
Hello everyone!! Talking about the Romantic period, there are many new things for me. For example, I did know that Edgar Allan Poe was an
important and best known writer of the Romantic period because I have already
heard about him and about his works; however, I did not know and I have never imagined that he was
the one who invented the genre of science fiction due to some of his works were based on mystery. So, through his amazing works, Poe influenced literature not
only in the United States but also around the world. In addition, I did not
know that Nathaniel Hawthorne was another important figure who helped to
the development of the American literature in its beginnings, it is due to many
of his stories are set in Puritan New England, and his greatest novel, The
Scarlet Letter has become the classic portrayal of Puritan America (VanSpanckeren,
37). So, without any doubt these writers’ works contributed a lot to the Romantic
period development.
According to these readings I have understood that fiction was a genre
that was created by Edgar Allan Poe during the romantic period, so I would like
to know if the other authors or writers that appeared in these readings or some
others that do not, but belonged to this period, created or invented another
genres…
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Hello Aby. Well...As everyone knows now, the Romantic period was not only about love but it was also about justic, fiction, horror and also freedom. These writers mentioned above had a great impact on slaves' lives. Undoubtedly, all these writers were a great help for all those that were not very fortunate. I guess that the best advance was that women were able to have a meaningful participation on society activities, they bacame able to vote and their voices were begun to be heard by the majority of men. This period was a period to change people´s minds they begat to be more open minded and the human rights began to taken into account and most of the people were respected.
ResponderEliminarHi! Aby
ResponderEliminarI would like to mention about the romantic period involves that many events took place and probably Edgar Allan Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne were the most relevant writer for that specific period, both writher wer able to transmit to the rest of the world their books. Another point is the fact that womens fought in order to get their rights as we can see womens were able to transmit that goal that was reach, even consider that during that centuries was something impossible to get.
Hello Abigail!!=) you know we all have talked about Edgar Allan Poe because he is a writer that everyone knows. All his writings are very famous and his name is popular too, however, I am pretty sure that none of us knew about the existence of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and as you mentioned that he was an important figure in the development of the American Literature, It is fundamental for us to know about him. We might not be familiar with the name “Nathaniel Hawthorne” but I think that we all have heard about “The scarlet Letter” at least the name even if we have not read or heard the complete story. It tells the story of the passionate, forbidden love affair linking a sensitive, religious young man, the reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, and the sensuous, and beautiful townsperson, Hester Prynne ” VanSpanckeren, Kathryn. 2001. Outline of American Literature. US Department of State, page 37”. Hawthorne’s life was not that different to Poe’s life because Nathaniel lost his father when he was four. This means that peoples’ lives by that time were really complicating and all these misadventures that people had to live where somehow inspiration to write.
ResponderEliminarHi Abi.!
ResponderEliminarI really like your post because it talks about an important thing and it is about slavery; in those times I think that it was so common look people living in slavery as in the example that you mentioned about Harriet, but that style helped her to fight against the adversity and encouraged her to write her own experience.
On the other hand, people believe, as I believed, that the Romantic period was a time that was full of good times and love, but that thought exists because people nowadays do not investigate the real situation of that period, now I realizad that was a hard time, for example Poe and Hawthorne didn't have wealth but nevertheless they managed that situation, as in the readings say that they were poor, and for example Poe had a bad moment growing without his parents and after that, marry his own cousin, that`s why hsi writings, for many people, are kind strangers, but now that we have read, we understand a little bit more...