Literature

aesthetic literature, not much in early US (accused of being culturally slow)

Born to PA Quakers, Alcuin: A Dialogue was about a utopia where women were equals, started The Monthly Magazine & American Review, published pamphlets critical of Jefferson, semi-yearly Literary Magazine & American Register

longform narratives w/ stories of characters encountering strange events

first-person protagonist, gender recognized in chapter 3

Clara's brother, climes are at the plot's center

orphaned early, joins French Protestantism, spontaneously combusts

Theodore's wife, highly affectionate mother of 4

Catharine's brother, highly skeptical (in contrast to Theodore)

Outsider to the main 4 & introduced in chapter 6 (clownish, rustic oaf)

by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecour, French immigrant; letters from PA farmer (James) who travels across America and write to his friend who is an elite Englishman; Letters start idyllic but begin to describe American flaws (i.e. slavery)

Member of Onodaga & diplomat for Iroquois; Natives have been here much longer than settlers & will no longer tolerate treaties without their input; published by Ben Franklin

Virginians attacked Seneca settlement (killed Logan's pregnant sister); Europeans talk big game but never fulfill it: if Lord Dunmore wants peace he will punish those who murder natives

best-known American poet, editor of National Gazette (Dem-Repub, attacked Hamilton)

Philip Freneau; freedom wil grow in America's plains & natures (beauty found in raawness)

Philip Freneau; depicts Indian burial ground w/ spirits reasting alongside Indian imagery; ode & elegy which celebrates & eulogizes buried Indians

Familiar letter; Hamilton waits to see if Eliza's father will approve of engagement while in Continental Army (considers quitting to be with wife), England would rather ruin family than let America free, asks if Eliza will be OK being married to a poor man

Familiar letter; Abigail tells John of now-destroyed former home, talks of riots in Boston, implores John to "remember the ladies"

Versatile writer in many genres, knew many languages; launched The Ladies' Academy, saw lack of education as source of inequality (inspired by A Vindication of the Rights of Woman)

Judith Sargent Murray (pseudonym: Constantia); women's uneducated minds are weak & dull, souls are equal to men's souls

Alexander Hamilton (pseudonym: Publius); published in Independent Journal 1 month after Constitutional Convention; says people are capable of self-gov't, claims Constitution opposistion fears for liberty but federal gov't will protect it

Hamilton & Madison; impossible to cure causes of faction but gov't must cure the effects

Washington Irving; collection of shorts stories from man who travels to Europe to discover culture US lacks

From The Sketch-Book (Washington Iriving); Crayon loved to travel as a child, talks of America's natural beauty but lack of culture, decides to travel to Europe

From The Sketch-Book (Washington Irving); found in the letters of Diedrich Knickerbocker (character from A History of New-York); Rip lives in Kaatskills, adored by his community but doesn't like to wrok, travels to woods & falls asleep, comes back to find he and the town have aged by many years

David Walker (son of slave father); colored people are most degraded beings in world's history, not called men but brutes, did nothing to deserve their treatment, whites are only successful because of advantages; $100,000 bounty on Walker's life after this publication