"Walt Whitman, an American": so the poet introduced himself in the first poem of his first collection, and so he continues to be read and received, by fellow Americans and foreigners alike. His ...

The first reaction came from the poets of the German literary movement of “Sturm und Drang”. It was characterized by a focus on the individual, on human creativity and feelings. Romantic ...

Instead, the New Romantics roamed widely through Romantic modes of ... to the scholarship of antebellum American history and literary studies as well as to the expanding genre of reform biography.' ...

Wendy Kurant, Ph.D., teaches Early American Literature, American Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, and Southern Literature at the University of North Georgia (UNG). Her research interests center on ...

An introduction to American literature, focusing on key novels, short stories and poems from the Romantic period through to the postmodern, and their relation to their historical and cultural contexts ...

Today, we do not expect a symptomatic reading to refer to bodily symptoms, or a literary dissection to be more than metaphorical. But this was not always true. In Romantic Autopsy, Arden Hegele ...

Romanticism is a term used to describe developments in literature, art and music in the ... on nature as part of a Romantic tradition helps us see how the poem is about the link between humans ...

Dr. Kurant teaches English Composition I and II, American Literature I, Early American Literature, American Romanticism, American Realism and Naturalism, American Modernism, Southern Literature, and ...

Romanticism is a term used to describe developments in literature, art and music in the ... on nature as part of a Romantic tradition helps us see how the poem is about the link between humans ...

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