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Why Classic American Literature Remains Indispensable: Writers (1997)

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period. The bulk of his writings was published between 1846 and 1857. Best known for his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851), he is also legendary for having been forgotten during the last thirty years of his life. Melville's writing is characteristic for its allusivity. "In Melville's manipulation of his reading," scholar Stanley T. Williams wrote, "was a transforming power comparable to Shakespeare's."[1] Born in New York City, he was the third child of a merchant in French dry-goods, with Revolutionary War heroes for grandfathers. Not long after the death of his father in 1832, his schooling stopped abruptly. After having been a schoolteacher for a short time, he signed up for a merchant voyage to Liverpool in 1839. A year and a half into his first whaling voyage, in 1842 he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, where he lived among the natives for a month. His first book, Typee (1846) became a huge bestseller which called for a sequel, Omoo (1847). The same year Melville married Elizabeth Knapp Shaw; their four children were all born between 1849 and 1855. In August 1850, having moved to Pittsfield, he established a profound friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne, though the relationship lost intensity after the latter moved away. Moby-Dick (1851) did not become a success, and Pierre (1852) put an end to his career as a popular author. From 1853 to 1856 he wrote short fiction for magazines, collected as The Piazza Tales (1856). In 1857, while Melville was on a voyage to England and the Near East, The Confidence-Man appeared, the last prose work published during his lifetime. From then on Melville turned to poetry. Having secured a position of Customs Inspector in New York, his poetic reflection on the Civil War appeared as Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866). In 1867 his oldest child Malcolm died at home from a self-inflicted gunshot. For the epic Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) he drew upon his experience in Egypt and Palestine from twenty years earlier. In 1886 he retired as Customs Inspector and privately published some volumes of poetry in small editions. During the last years of his life, interest in him was reviving and he was approached to have his biography written, but his death in 1891 from cardiovascular disease subdued the revival before it could gain momentum. Inspired perhaps by the growing interest in him, in his final years he had been working on a prose story one more time and left the manuscript of Billy Budd, Sailor, which was published in 1924. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.[2] He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail.[3] He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.[3] He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau

published: 06 Oct 2014
views: 1011

Literary History Timeline * Historical or non-English / American item ? B.C. — A. D. 428: Celtic and Roman Britain 428 — 1100: Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period c. 700 — Beowulf composed in present form *1066 — Battle of Hastings (Norman Conquest) *1215 — Signing of Magna Carta *c. 1307 — 1321 — Dante's Divina Commedia 1350 — 1500: Middle English Period c. 1387 — Chaucer, "Prologue" to Canterbury Tales *1492 — Columbus lands in America 1500 — 1660: The Renaissance (in England; 1607 - 1780 is considered the "Colonial" period in America) *1517 —Martin Luther posts his theses in Wittenberg, leading to Protestant Reformation *1532 — Machiavelli, The Prince 1539 — English Bible (the "Great Bible") published *1558 — 1603 — Reign of Queen Elizabeth I 1564 — 1616 — Life of William Shakespeare 1601 — Shakespeare's Hamlet *1605 — Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part I *1607 — Settlement at Jamestown, Virginia 1611 — King James translation of the Bible *1620 — Pilgrims land at Plymouth *1640 — Bay Psalm Book: first book printed in America *1649 — Execution of Charles I *1649 — 1660 — Commonwealth Period–England ruled by Parliament 1660 — 1798: Neoclassical Period (also known as "The Long 18th Century") *1660 — Charles II restored to the throne ("The Restoration") 1667 — John Milton, Paradise Lost *1687 — Sir Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica *1692 — Salem witchcraft executions 1719 — Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe 1726 — Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels 1740 — Samuel Richardson, Pamela 1740-5 — The Great Awakening (religious revival) 1749 — Henry Fielding, Tom Jones *1751 — Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" 1755 - Ben Johnson, Dictionary 1760-67 — Lawrence Stern, Tristram Shandy 1765-1830 — Revolutionary and Early National Period *1770 — Oliver Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village" 1771 — Ben Franklin, Autobiography 1775-1783 — Revolutionary War 1776 —Declaration of Independence 1783-85 — Noah Webster, Grammatical Institute of the English Language (speller, grammar, reader) *1789 — French Revolution begins 1798-1832: Romantic Period 1798 — William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads 1811 — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility 1817 — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein 1819 — Lord Byron, Don Juan I and II *1820 — The Missouri Compromise 1820 — Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe 1830 — Edgar Allan Poe, Poems 1832-1870: Early Victorian Age (English Literature) 1836 — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature 1836 — Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers 1837 — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales 1842 — Robert Browning, Dramatic Lyrics; Lord Tennyson, Poems 1845 — Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven 1847 — Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights; Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre 1847-8 — Thackeray, Vanity Fair 1849 — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield 1850 — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese 1850 — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter 1851 — Herman Melville, Moby Dick 1852 — Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1854 — Henry David Thoreau, Walden 1855 — Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass 1859 — Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species 1860 — George Eliot, Mill on the Floss *1860-5 — American Civil War 1865-1914: Realistic Period (American Literature) 1867 — Karl Marx, Das Kapital 1868 — Louisa May Alcott, Little Women 1872 — George Eliot, Middlemarch 1874 — Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd 1876 — Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer 1879 — Henry James, Daisy Miller; * Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House 1883 — Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island 1884 — Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn 1891 — Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles 1893 — George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren’s Profession 1895 — Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest; Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage 1900-1930: Naturalistic and Symbolistic Period (American Only) 1900 — Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie 1901-1910: Edwardian Period 1903 — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Jack London, The Call of the Wild 1905 — Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth 1907 — John Millington Synge, Playboy of the Western World 1913 — D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers; Willa Cather, O Pioneers! 1914-1918: First World War 1917 — T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" 1921- Aldous Huxley, Chrome Yellow 1922 - James Joyce, Ulysses; T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land 1924 - E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

published: 27 Feb 2016
views: 3

Aliens, Time Travel, and Dresden -Slaughterhouse-Five Part I: Crash Course Literature 212

You can directly support Crash Course at https://www.patreon.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Free is nice, but if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing this content. In which John Green teaches you about Kurt Vonnegut's most famous novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. Vonnegut wrote the book in the Vietnam era, and it closely mirrors his personal experiences in World War II, as long as you throw out the time travel and aliens and porn stars and stuff. Slaughterhouse-Five tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, a World War II veteran who was a prisoner of war, and survived the Battle of the Bulge and the fire-bombing of Dresden, goes home after the war, and has trouble adapting to civilian life (this is the part that's like Vonnegut's own experience). Billy Pilgrim has flashbacks to the war that he interprets as being "unstuck in time." He believes he's been abducted by aliens, and pretty much loses it. You'll learn a little about Vonnegut's life, quite a bit about Dresden, and probably more than you'd like about barbershop quartets as a metaphor for post traumatic stress.

published: 15 May 2014
views: 422074

Joachim Raff - String Quartet No. 7 (1876)

Painting Info - Thomas Kinkade - Sea of Tranquility I. The Youth - 00:00 II. The Mill - 7:50 III. The Miller Maiden - 10:12 IV. Uneasiness - 18:28 V. Declaration - 20:42 VI. Festivities on the Eve of the Wedding - 23:32 Raff's seventh string quartet, subtitled The Maid of the Mill after Schubert's famous song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin, was one of the most performed string quartets on concert programs between 1876 and 1914. And Raff himself, during this period, was widely regarded along with Wagner, Liszt, and Brahms as one of Germany's leading composers. All of the critical commentaries which appeared during those years spoke of him as an equal to such masters as Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky. Incredibly, by the 1920's his music had all but disappeared from the concert stage. It seems virtually unimaginable that a composer whose talent was recognized and whose music was admired by Mendelssohn and Liszt, could become a mere footnote, yet this is what became of Raff and his music for most of the 20th century. Only now is he being rediscovered to the delight of those fortunate enough to hear his music. Joachim Raff (1822-1882) was born near Zurich and his family had hoped he would be come a school teacher, but music was his first love. Basically self-taught, Raff sent some of his early compositions to Mendelssohn who immediately recognized his talent and arranged for their publication. Unfortunately, Mendelssohn died before he could help Raff much more. The young composer then approached Liszt who also took an interest in him and took him on as his personal secretary and copyist. During the six years he spent with Liszt, Raff became a member of the so-called "New German School" led by Wagner and Liszt. Although he broke from them in 1856, he was still regarded as a Wagnerite by the supporters of Brahms and the other classicists. In short, Raff was in neither camp, but attacked by both. Isolated, he went his own way, paying little attention to the musical politics of late 19th century Germany. His String Quartet No.7 dates from 1876, and was an immediate success from its premier. It is a programmatic work which tells the same story as Schubert's song cycle by the same name. A young man passes by a mill and sees a beautiful girl, the maid of the mill. For him, it is love at first sight. Finally he proposes and she accepts. In six movements, the opening Allegro presents the young fellow as he travels along. The second movement, subtitled the The Mill, also is an Allegro. At one time, this was one of the most famous movements in the entire string quartet literature and was frequently played by itself as an encore. The third movement, a lovely Andante quasi Adagietto, portrays the Maid of the Mill. Then comes Unrest, an Allegro, which portrays the young man struggling to get up the courage to propose. The fifth movement, Andantino quasi Allegretto, also was quite famous and used as an encore for more than half a century. Entitled The Proposal, it is a highly romantic lovers' duet between the cello and first violin. The finale, Wedding Eve Feast (Zum Polterabend) is the traditional celebration in German lands which takes place the night before the wedding. At the feast, old crockery was smashed to bring luck to the happy couple.

published: 11 Sep 2013
views: 4665

Slavery, Ghosts, and Beloved: Crash Course Literature 214

You can directly support Crash Course at https://www.patreon.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Free is nice, but if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing this content. In which John Green teaches you about Beloved by Toni Morrison. I'll warn you up front, this book is something of a downer. That's because it deals with subjects like slavery, the death of a child, a potential haunting, and a bunch of other sad stuff. John will talk about Beloved in relation to slavery, and how that terrible institution affected individuals, families, and all of American culture in the years surrounding the Civil War. We will also not be getting into whether or not Beloved was a ghost, because it really has no bearing on what the book has to say. Also, as usual, spoilers abound, so we recommend you read the book before you watch this video!

published: 29 May 2014
views: 252042

Fraud of the Century: The Election of President Hayes

Set in the centennial year of the United States, the 1876 Presidential election was one of the most dynamic and powerful elections in American history. Embroiled in claims of corruption and controversial legality, the contest between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden nearly sparked a civil war among political parties. The older, more politically experienced Tilden, received the popular vote and was known as an intellectual politician. However, it was Hayes, the more practical politician, who eventually took the oath of office, after an exhaustive recount of the electoral vote. The battle for the presidency of 1876 depleted Tilden's personal and political spirit and dampened Hayes' political reputation on both sides of the political aisle. Roy Morris Jr. is a former newspaper reporter and political writer. Morris was founding editor of America's Civil War for 13 years before assuming his current post as editor of Military Heritage in 2004. He has also served as a consultant for the A&E; television network and the History Channel, and edited a three-book series for Purdue University Press on Civil War and post-Civil War history, culture, journalism and literature. Morris is also the author of six well-received books on 19th-Century American history and literature, including: Lighting Out for the Territory, The Long Pursuit, Fraud of the Century, The Better Angel; Ambrose Bierce, and Sheridan. His seventh book, Declaring His Genius, will be published by Harvard University Press in December 2012.

published: 24 Jul 2014
views: 868

Bill Murray Reads Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn - Literary and Historical Significance of the Novel

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective). It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Satirizing a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. Perennially popular with readers, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has also been the continued object of study by literary critics since its publication. It was criticized upon release because of its coarse language and became even more controversial in the 20th century because of its perceived use of racial stereotypes and because of its frequent use of the racial slur "nigger", despite strong arguments that the protagonist, and the tenor of the book, is anti-racist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn William James "Bill" Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an American actor and comedian. He first gained exposure on Saturday Night Live in which he earned an Emmy Award and later went on to star in comedy films, including Caddyshack (1980), Ghostbusters (1984) and Groundhog Day (1993). Murray gained additional critical acclaim later in his career, starring in Lost in Translation (2003), which earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination, the indie comedy-drama Broken Flowers (2005) and a series of films directed by Wes Anderson, including Rushmore (1998), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) and Moonrise Kingdom (2012). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Murray Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 -- April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel." Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which provided the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. After an apprenticeship with a printer, he worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his singular lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. In 1865, his humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published, based on a story he heard at Angels Hotel in Angels Camp California where he had spent some time as a miner. The short story brought international attention, even being translated to classic Greek. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. Though Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he invested in ventures that lost a great deal of money, notably the Paige Compositor, which failed because of its complexity and imprecision. In the wake of these financial setbacks he filed for protection from his creditors via a bankruptcy filing, and with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers eventually overcame his financial troubles. Twain chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, though he had no responsibility to do this under the law. Twain was born shortly after a visit by Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it," too. He died the day following the comet's subsequent return. He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age," and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_twain

published: 29 Jul 2013
views: 26839

18th and 19th Century English Literature - Part 1

This Lecture talks about 18th and 19th Century English Literature.

published: 02 Dec 2013
views: 11153

An old carpenter carves a little wooden puppet from a mysterious piece of wood that seems to have the ability to talk! He begins to love the little creature like his own son and names him Pinocchio. But the mischievous fellow runs away from his loving father as soon as he learns to walk. The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi follows the misadventures and naughty exploits of this delightfully “human” puppet who in his heart of hearts longs only to become a real boy. Carlo Collodi was the pen name of a gifted writer of children's books, Carlo Lorenzini who lived in Florence, Italy, during the late 19th century. He was also a political activist and author of several novels, short novels, articles and sketches for adults. He began writing for children in 1876 and translated children's literature from other languages into Italian. The Adventures of Pinnochio is meant to be an allegory and a cautionary tale for children. Through the adventures of this playful and headstrong puppet, Collodi provides many valuable lessons for young children. Wonderful characters like the Talking Cricket, the Fox and the Cat, the Fairy with the Turquoise Hair and old Gepetto himself are colorful, memorable and each one contributes to Pinnochio's final transformation. With plenty of magical moments, fantasy and thrills, the plot provides enough excitement for children of all ages. Since it first appeared in 1883, the book has enjoyed immense fame and popularity. There have been innumerable translations into more than 250 major world languages, making it the most translated book in the world. There have been plenty of adaptations for stage, radio, television and film, including cartoons and merchandise. Pinnochio's long nose has even become a metaphor for people who tell lies. As a pioneer in the field, Collodi's works became instantly popular, as children's literature as a genre was not very prevalent before the 19th century. His easy and engaging style caught the imagination of children instantly and became a benchmark for children's writers ever since. There are some very endearing and thought-provoking moments and incidents in the story, which make it very memorable for both children and adults. Enduring values of love and loyalty, the essential contradictions that make us human and the transformation of a rebellious, thoughtless, uncaring and self-indulgent youngster into a mature young person are what makes this story so beloved and treasured the world over.

published: 01 May 2016
views: 23

The Lost Generation: Literature of the 1920s

Project for an APUSH class on the literature--from novels, poems, magazines, and cartoon strips--and popular authors, of the 1920s.

published: 25 Oct 2014
views: 4341

This podcast will help you to understand how to synthesize evidence from multiple texts and incorporate this textual evidence into a literary analysis essay.

published: 23 Sep 2013
views: 2075

Preservation at the American Antiquarian Society

How printed materials are preserved at the American Antiquarian Society is the subject of this short film. The American Antiquarian Society is a national research library and center for study of American history, literature and culture from 1640 to 1876.

published: 28 Sep 2012
views: 162

The year 1876 in literature involved some significant new books.

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Why Classic American Literature Remains Indispensable: Writers (1997)

Why Classic American Literature Remains Indispensable: Writers (1997)

Why Classic American Literature Remains Indispensable: Writers (1997)
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period. The bulk of his writings was published between 1846 and 1857. Best known for his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851), he is also legendary for having been forgotten during the last thirty years of his life. Melville's writing is characteristic for its allusivity. "In Melville's manipulation of his reading," scholar Stanley T. Williams wrote, "was a transforming power comparable to Shakespeare's."[1] Born in New York City, he was the third child of a merchant in French dry-goods, with Revolutionary War heroes for grandfathers. Not long after the death of his father in 1832, his schooling stopped abruptly. After having been a schoolteacher for a short time, he signed up for a merchant voyage to Liverpool in 1839. A year and a half into his first whaling voyage, in 1842 he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, where he lived among the natives for a month. His first book, Typee (1846) became a huge bestseller which called for a sequel, Omoo (1847). The same year Melville married Elizabeth Knapp Shaw; their four children were all born between 1849 and 1855. In August 1850, having moved to Pittsfield, he established a profound friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne, though the relationship lost intensity after the latter moved away. Moby-Dick (1851) did not become a success, and Pierre (1852) put an end to his career as a popular author. From 1853 to 1856 he wrote short fiction for magazines, collected as The Piazza Tales (1856). In 1857, while Melville was on a voyage to England and the Near East, The Confidence-Man appeared, the last prose work published during his lifetime. From then on Melville turned to poetry. Having secured a position of Customs Inspector in New York, his poetic reflection on the Civil War appeared as Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866). In 1867 his oldest child Malcolm died at home from a self-inflicted gunshot. For the epic Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) he drew upon his experience in Egypt and Palestine from twenty years earlier. In 1886 he retired as Customs Inspector and privately published some volumes of poetry in small editions. During the last years of his life, interest in him was reviving and he was approached to have his biography written, but his death in 1891 from cardiovascular disease subdued the revival before it could gain momentum. Inspired perhaps by the growing interest in him, in his final years he had been working on a prose story one more time and left the manuscript of Billy Budd, Sailor, which was published in 1924. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.[2] He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail.[3] He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.[3] He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau
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English Literary HistoryPeriods

English Literary HistoryPeriods

English Literary HistoryPeriods
Literary History Timeline * Historical or non-English / American item ? B.C. — A. D. 428: Celtic and Roman Britain 428 — 1100: Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period c. 700 — Beowulf composed in present form *1066 — Battle of Hastings (Norman Conquest) *1215 — Signing of Magna Carta *c. 1307 — 1321 — Dante's Divina Commedia 1350 — 1500: Middle English Period c. 1387 — Chaucer, "Prologue" to Canterbury Tales *1492 — Columbus lands in America 1500 — 1660: The Renaissance (in England; 1607 - 1780 is considered the "Colonial" period in America) *1517 —Martin Luther posts his theses in Wittenberg, leading to Protestant Reformation *1532 — Machiavelli, The Prince 1539 — English Bible (the "Great Bible") published *1558 — 1603 — Reign of Queen Elizabeth I 1564 — 1616 — Life of William Shakespeare 1601 — Shakespeare's Hamlet *1605 — Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part I *1607 — Settlement at Jamestown, Virginia 1611 — King James translation of the Bible *1620 — Pilgrims land at Plymouth *1640 — Bay Psalm Book: first book printed in America *1649 — Execution of Charles I *1649 — 1660 — Commonwealth Period–England ruled by Parliament 1660 — 1798: Neoclassical Period (also known as "The Long 18th Century") *1660 — Charles II restored to the throne ("The Restoration") 1667 — John Milton, Paradise Lost *1687 — Sir Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica *1692 — Salem witchcraft executions 1719 — Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe 1726 — Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels 1740 — Samuel Richardson, Pamela 1740-5 — The Great Awakening (religious revival) 1749 — Henry Fielding, Tom Jones *1751 — Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" 1755 - Ben Johnson, Dictionary 1760-67 — Lawrence Stern, Tristram Shandy 1765-1830 — Revolutionary and Early National Period *1770 — Oliver Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village" 1771 — Ben Franklin, Autobiography 1775-1783 — Revolutionary War 1776 —Declaration of Independence 1783-85 — Noah Webster, Grammatical Institute of the English Language (speller, grammar, reader) *1789 — French Revolution begins 1798-1832: Romantic Period 1798 — William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads 1811 — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility 1817 — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein 1819 — Lord Byron, Don Juan I and II *1820 — The Missouri Compromise 1820 — Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe 1830 — Edgar Allan Poe, Poems 1832-1870: Early Victorian Age (English Literature) 1836 — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature 1836 — Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers 1837 — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales 1842 — Robert Browning, Dramatic Lyrics; Lord Tennyson, Poems 1845 — Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven 1847 — Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights; Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre 1847-8 — Thackeray, Vanity Fair 1849 — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield 1850 — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese 1850 — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter 1851 — Herman Melville, Moby Dick 1852 — Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1854 — Henry David Thoreau, Walden 1855 — Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass 1859 — Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species 1860 — George Eliot, Mill on the Floss *1860-5 — American Civil War 1865-1914: Realistic Period (American Literature) 1867 — Karl Marx, Das Kapital 1868 — Louisa May Alcott, Little Women 1872 — George Eliot, Middlemarch 1874 — Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd 1876 — Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer 1879 — Henry James, Daisy Miller; * Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House 1883 — Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island 1884 — Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn 1891 — Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles 1893 — George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren’s Profession 1895 — Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest; Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage 1900-1930: Naturalistic and Symbolistic Period (American Only) 1900 — Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie 1901-1910: Edwardian Period 1903 — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Jack London, The Call of the Wild 1905 — Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth 1907 — John Millington Synge, Playboy of the Western World 1913 — D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers; Willa Cather, O Pioneers! 1914-1918: First World War 1917 — T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" 1921- Aldous Huxley, Chrome Yellow 1922 - James Joyce, Ulysses; T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land 1924 - E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
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Aliens, Time Travel, and Dresden -Slaughterhouse-Five Part I: Crash Course Literature 212

Aliens, Time Travel, and Dresden -Slaughterhouse-Five Part I: Crash Course Literature 212

Aliens, Time Travel, and Dresden -Slaughterhouse-Five Part I: Crash Course Literature 212
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Joachim Raff - String Quartet No. 7 (1876)

Joachim Raff - String Quartet No. 7 (1876)

Joachim Raff - String Quartet No. 7 (1876)
Painting Info - Thomas Kinkade - Sea of Tranquility I. The Youth - 00:00 II. The Mill - 7:50 III. The Miller Maiden - 10:12 IV. Uneasiness - 18:28 V. Declaration - 20:42 VI. Festivities on the Eve of the Wedding - 23:32 Raff's seventh string quartet, subtitled The Maid of the Mill after Schubert's famous song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin, was one of the most performed string quartets on concert programs between 1876 and 1914. And Raff himself, during this period, was widely regarded along with Wagner, Liszt, and Brahms as one of Germany's leading composers. All of the critical commentaries which appeared during those years spoke of him as an equal to such masters as Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky. Incredibly, by the 1920's his music had all but disappeared from the concert stage. It seems virtually unimaginable that a composer whose talent was recognized and whose music was admired by Mendelssohn and Liszt, could become a mere footnote, yet this is what became of Raff and his music for most of the 20th century. Only now is he being rediscovered to the delight of those fortunate enough to hear his music. Joachim Raff (1822-1882) was born near Zurich and his family had hoped he would be come a school teacher, but music was his first love. Basically self-taught, Raff sent some of his early compositions to Mendelssohn who immediately recognized his talent and arranged for their publication. Unfortunately, Mendelssohn died before he could help Raff much more. The young composer then approached Liszt who also took an interest in him and took him on as his personal secretary and copyist. During the six years he spent with Liszt, Raff became a member of the so-called "New German School" led by Wagner and Liszt. Although he broke from them in 1856, he was still regarded as a Wagnerite by the supporters of Brahms and the other classicists. In short, Raff was in neither camp, but attacked by both. Isolated, he went his own way, paying little attention to the musical politics of late 19th century Germany. His String Quartet No.7 dates from 1876, and was an immediate success from its premier. It is a programmatic work which tells the same story as Schubert's song cycle by the same name. A young man passes by a mill and sees a beautiful girl, the maid of the mill. For him, it is love at first sight. Finally he proposes and she accepts. In six movements, the opening Allegro presents the young fellow as he travels along. The second movement, subtitled the The Mill, also is an Allegro. At one time, this was one of the most famous movements in the entire string quartet literature and was frequently played by itself as an encore. The third movement, a lovely Andante quasi Adagietto, portrays the Maid of the Mill. Then comes Unrest, an Allegro, which portrays the young man struggling to get up the courage to propose. The fifth movement, Andantino quasi Allegretto, also was quite famous and used as an encore for more than half a century. Entitled The Proposal, it is a highly romantic lovers' duet between the cello and first violin. The finale, Wedding Eve Feast (Zum Polterabend) is the traditional celebration in German lands which takes place the night before the wedding. At the feast, old crockery was smashed to bring luck to the happy couple.
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Slavery, Ghosts, and Beloved: Crash Course Literature 214

Slavery, Ghosts, and Beloved: Crash Course Literature 214

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Fraud of the Century: The Election of President Hayes

Fraud of the Century: The Election of President Hayes

Fraud of the Century: The Election of President Hayes
Set in the centennial year of the United States, the 1876 Presidential election was one of the most dynamic and powerful elections in American history. Embroiled in claims of corruption and controversial legality, the contest between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden nearly sparked a civil war among political parties. The older, more politically experienced Tilden, received the popular vote and was known as an intellectual politician. However, it was Hayes, the more practical politician, who eventually took the oath of office, after an exhaustive recount of the electoral vote. The battle for the presidency of 1876 depleted Tilden's personal and political spirit and dampened Hayes' political reputation on both sides of the political aisle. Roy Morris Jr. is a former newspaper reporter and political writer. Morris was founding editor of America's Civil War for 13 years before assuming his current post as editor of Military Heritage in 2004. He has also served as a consultant for the A&E; television network and the History Channel, and edited a three-book series for Purdue University Press on Civil War and post-Civil War history, culture, journalism and literature. Morris is also the author of six well-received books on 19th-Century American history and literature, including: Lighting Out for the Territory, The Long Pursuit, Fraud of the Century, The Better Angel; Ambrose Bierce, and Sheridan. His seventh book, Declaring His Genius, will be published by Harvard University Press in December 2012.
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Bill Murray Reads Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn - Literary and Historical Significance of the Novel

Bill Murray Reads Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn - Literary and Historical Significance of the Novel

Bill Murray Reads Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn - Literary and Historical Significance of the Novel
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective). It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Satirizing a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. Perennially popular with readers, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has also been the continued object of study by literary critics since its publication. It was criticized upon release because of its coarse language and became even more controversial in the 20th century because of its perceived use of racial stereotypes and because of its frequent use of the racial slur "nigger", despite strong arguments that the protagonist, and the tenor of the book, is anti-racist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn William James "Bill" Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an American actor and comedian. He first gained exposure on Saturday Night Live in which he earned an Emmy Award and later went on to star in comedy films, including Caddyshack (1980), Ghostbusters (1984) and Groundhog Day (1993). Murray gained additional critical acclaim later in his career, starring in Lost in Translation (2003), which earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination, the indie comedy-drama Broken Flowers (2005) and a series of films directed by Wes Anderson, including Rushmore (1998), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) and Moonrise Kingdom (2012). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Murray Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 -- April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel." Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which provided the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. After an apprenticeship with a printer, he worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his singular lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. In 1865, his humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published, based on a story he heard at Angels Hotel in Angels Camp California where he had spent some time as a miner. The short story brought international attention, even being translated to classic Greek. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. Though Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he invested in ventures that lost a great deal of money, notably the Paige Compositor, which failed because of its complexity and imprecision. In the wake of these financial setbacks he filed for protection from his creditors via a bankruptcy filing, and with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers eventually overcame his financial troubles. Twain chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, though he had no responsibility to do this under the law. Twain was born shortly after a visit by Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it," too. He died the day following the comet's subsequent return. He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age," and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_twain
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18th and 19th Century English Literature - Part 1

18th and 19th Century English Literature - Part 1

18th and 19th Century English Literature - Part 1
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The Adventures of Pinocchio

The Adventures of Pinocchio

The Adventures of Pinocchio
An old carpenter carves a little wooden puppet from a mysterious piece of wood that seems to have the ability to talk! He begins to love the little creature like his own son and names him Pinocchio. But the mischievous fellow runs away from his loving father as soon as he learns to walk. The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi follows the misadventures and naughty exploits of this delightfully “human” puppet who in his heart of hearts longs only to become a real boy. Carlo Collodi was the pen name of a gifted writer of children's books, Carlo Lorenzini who lived in Florence, Italy, during the late 19th century. He was also a political activist and author of several novels, short novels, articles and sketches for adults. He began writing for children in 1876 and translated children's literature from other languages into Italian. The Adventures of Pinnochio is meant to be an allegory and a cautionary tale for children. Through the adventures of this playful and headstrong puppet, Collodi provides many valuable lessons for young children. Wonderful characters like the Talking Cricket, the Fox and the Cat, the Fairy with the Turquoise Hair and old Gepetto himself are colorful, memorable and each one contributes to Pinnochio's final transformation. With plenty of magical moments, fantasy and thrills, the plot provides enough excitement for children of all ages. Since it first appeared in 1883, the book has enjoyed immense fame and popularity. There have been innumerable translations into more than 250 major world languages, making it the most translated book in the world. There have been plenty of adaptations for stage, radio, television and film, including cartoons and merchandise. Pinnochio's long nose has even become a metaphor for people who tell lies. As a pioneer in the field, Collodi's works became instantly popular, as children's literature as a genre was not very prevalent before the 19th century. His easy and engaging style caught the imagination of children instantly and became a benchmark for children's writers ever since. There are some very endearing and thought-provoking moments and incidents in the story, which make it very memorable for both children and adults. Enduring values of love and loyalty, the essential contradictions that make us human and the transformation of a rebellious, thoughtless, uncaring and self-indulgent youngster into a mature young person are what makes this story so beloved and treasured the world over.
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The Lost Generation: Literature of the 1920s

The Lost Generation: Literature of the 1920s

The Lost Generation: Literature of the 1920s
Project for an APUSH class on the literature--from novels, poems, magazines, and cartoon strips--and popular authors, of the 1920s.
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synthesis in literary analysis essays

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Preservation at the American Antiquarian Society

Preservation at the American Antiquarian Society

Preservation at the American Antiquarian Society
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Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period. The bulk of his writings was published between 1846 and 1857. Best known for his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851), he is also legendary for having been forgotten during the last thirty years of his life. Melville's writing is characteristic for its allusivity. "In Melville's manipulation of his reading," scholar Stanley T. Williams wrote, "was a transforming power comparable to Shakespeare's."[1] Born in New York City, he was the third child of a merchant in French dry-goods, with Revolutionary War heroes for grandfathers. Not long after the death of his father in 1832, his schooling stopped abruptly. After having been a schoolteacher for a short time, he signed up for a merchant voyage to Liverpool in 1839. A year and a half into his first whaling voyage, in 1842 he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, where he lived among the natives for a month. His first book, Typee (1846) became a huge bestseller which called for a sequel, Omoo (1847). The same year Melville married Elizabeth Knapp Shaw; their four children were all born between 1849 and 1855. In August 1850, having moved to Pittsfield, he established a profound friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne, though the relationship lost intensity after the latter moved away. Moby-Dick (1851) did not become a success, and Pierre (1852) put an end to his career as a popular author. From 1853 to 1856 he wrote short fiction for magazines, collected as The Piazza Tales (1856). In 1857, while Melville was on a voyage to England and the Near East, The Confidence-Man appeared, the last prose work published during his lifetime. From then on Melville turned to poetry. Having secured a position of Customs Inspector in New York, his poetic reflection on the Civil War appeared as Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866). In 1867 his oldest child Malcolm died at home from a self-inflicted gunshot. For the epic Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) he drew upon his experience in Egypt and Palestine from twenty years earlier. In 1886 he retired as Customs Inspector and privately published some volumes of poetry in small editions. During the last years of his life, interest in him was reviving and he was approached to have his biography written, but his death in 1891 from cardiovascular disease subdued the revival before it could gain momentum. Inspired perhaps by the growing interest in him, in his final years he had been working on a prose story one more time and left the manuscript of Billy Budd, Sailor, which was published in 1924. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.[2] He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail.[3] He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.[3] He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau

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Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period. The bulk of his writings was published between 1846 and 1857. Best known for his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851), he is also legendary for having been forgotten during the last thirty years of his life. Melville's writing is characteristic for its allusivity. "In Melville's manipulation of his reading," scholar Stanley T. Williams wrote, "was a transforming power comparable to Shakespeare's."[1] Born in New York City, he was the third child of a merchant in French dry-goods, with Revolutionary War heroes for grandfathers. Not long after the death of his father in 1832, his schooling stopped abruptly. After having been a schoolteacher for a short time, he signed up for a merchant voyage to Liverpool in 1839. A year and a half into his first whaling voyage, in 1842 he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, where he lived among the natives for a month. His first book, Typee (1846) became a huge bestseller which called for a sequel, Omoo (1847). The same year Melville married Elizabeth Knapp Shaw; their four children were all born between 1849 and 1855. In August 1850, having moved to Pittsfield, he established a profound friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne, though the relationship lost intensity after the latter moved away. Moby-Dick (1851) did not become a success, and Pierre (1852) put an end to his career as a popular author. From 1853 to 1856 he wrote short fiction for magazines, collected as The Piazza Tales (1856). In 1857, while Melville was on a voyage to England and the Near East, The Confidence-Man appeared, the last prose work published during his lifetime. From then on Melville turned to poetry. Having secured a position of Customs Inspector in New York, his poetic reflection on the Civil War appeared as Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866). In 1867 his oldest child Malcolm died at home from a self-inflicted gunshot. For the epic Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) he drew upon his experience in Egypt and Palestine from twenty years earlier. In 1886 he retired as Customs Inspector and privately published some volumes of poetry in small editions. During the last years of his life, interest in him was reviving and he was approached to have his biography written, but his death in 1891 from cardiovascular disease subdued the revival before it could gain momentum. Inspired perhaps by the growing interest in him, in his final years he had been working on a prose story one more time and left the manuscript of Billy Budd, Sailor, which was published in 1924. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.[2] He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail.[3] He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.[3] He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau

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English Literary HistoryPeriods

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Literary History Timeline * Historical or non-English / American item ? B.C. — A. D. 428: Celtic and Roman Britain 428 — 1100: Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Per...

Literary History Timeline * Historical or non-English / American item ? B.C. — A. D. 428: Celtic and Roman Britain 428 — 1100: Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period c. 700 — Beowulf composed in present form *1066 — Battle of Hastings (Norman Conquest) *1215 — Signing of Magna Carta *c. 1307 — 1321 — Dante's Divina Commedia 1350 — 1500: Middle English Period c. 1387 — Chaucer, "Prologue" to Canterbury Tales *1492 — Columbus lands in America 1500 — 1660: The Renaissance (in England; 1607 - 1780 is considered the "Colonial" period in America) *1517 —Martin Luther posts his theses in Wittenberg, leading to Protestant Reformation *1532 — Machiavelli, The Prince 1539 — English Bible (the "Great Bible") published *1558 — 1603 — Reign of Queen Elizabeth I 1564 — 1616 — Life of William Shakespeare 1601 — Shakespeare's Hamlet *1605 — Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part I *1607 — Settlement at Jamestown, Virginia 1611 — King James translation of the Bible *1620 — Pilgrims land at Plymouth *1640 — Bay Psalm Book: first book printed in America *1649 — Execution of Charles I *1649 — 1660 — Commonwealth Period–England ruled by Parliament 1660 — 1798: Neoclassical Period (also known as "The Long 18th Century") *1660 — Charles II restored to the throne ("The Restoration") 1667 — John Milton, Paradise Lost *1687 — Sir Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica *1692 — Salem witchcraft executions 1719 — Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe 1726 — Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels 1740 — Samuel Richardson, Pamela 1740-5 — The Great Awakening (religious revival) 1749 — Henry Fielding, Tom Jones *1751 — Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" 1755 - Ben Johnson, Dictionary 1760-67 — Lawrence Stern, Tristram Shandy 1765-1830 — Revolutionary and Early National Period *1770 — Oliver Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village" 1771 — Ben Franklin, Autobiography 1775-1783 — Revolutionary War 1776 —Declaration of Independence 1783-85 — Noah Webster, Grammatical Institute of the English Language (speller, grammar, reader) *1789 — French Revolution begins 1798-1832: Romantic Period 1798 — William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads 1811 — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility 1817 — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein 1819 — Lord Byron, Don Juan I and II *1820 — The Missouri Compromise 1820 — Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe 1830 — Edgar Allan Poe, Poems 1832-1870: Early Victorian Age (English Literature) 1836 — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature 1836 — Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers 1837 — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales 1842 — Robert Browning, Dramatic Lyrics; Lord Tennyson, Poems 1845 — Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven 1847 — Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights; Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre 1847-8 — Thackeray, Vanity Fair 1849 — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield 1850 — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese 1850 — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter 1851 — Herman Melville, Moby Dick 1852 — Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1854 — Henry David Thoreau, Walden 1855 — Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass 1859 — Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species 1860 — George Eliot, Mill on the Floss *1860-5 — American Civil War 1865-1914: Realistic Period (American Literature) 1867 — Karl Marx, Das Kapital 1868 — Louisa May Alcott, Little Women 1872 — George Eliot, Middlemarch 1874 — Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd 1876 — Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer 1879 — Henry James, Daisy Miller; * Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House 1883 — Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island 1884 — Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn 1891 — Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles 1893 — George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren’s Profession 1895 — Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest; Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage 1900-1930: Naturalistic and Symbolistic Period (American Only) 1900 — Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie 1901-1910: Edwardian Period 1903 — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Jack London, The Call of the Wild 1905 — Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth 1907 — John Millington Synge, Playboy of the Western World 1913 — D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers; Willa Cather, O Pioneers! 1914-1918: First World War 1917 — T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" 1921- Aldous Huxley, Chrome Yellow 1922 - James Joyce, Ulysses; T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land 1924 - E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

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Literary History Timeline * Historical or non-English / American item ? B.C. — A. D. 428: Celtic and Roman Britain 428 — 1100: Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period c. 700 — Beowulf composed in present form *1066 — Battle of Hastings (Norman Conquest) *1215 — Signing of Magna Carta *c. 1307 — 1321 — Dante's Divina Commedia 1350 — 1500: Middle English Period c. 1387 — Chaucer, "Prologue" to Canterbury Tales *1492 — Columbus lands in America 1500 — 1660: The Renaissance (in England; 1607 - 1780 is considered the "Colonial" period in America) *1517 —Martin Luther posts his theses in Wittenberg, leading to Protestant Reformation *1532 — Machiavelli, The Prince 1539 — English Bible (the "Great Bible") published *1558 — 1603 — Reign of Queen Elizabeth I 1564 — 1616 — Life of William Shakespeare 1601 — Shakespeare's Hamlet *1605 — Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part I *1607 — Settlement at Jamestown, Virginia 1611 — King James translation of the Bible *1620 — Pilgrims land at Plymouth *1640 — Bay Psalm Book: first book printed in America *1649 — Execution of Charles I *1649 — 1660 — Commonwealth Period–England ruled by Parliament 1660 — 1798: Neoclassical Period (also known as "The Long 18th Century") *1660 — Charles II restored to the throne ("The Restoration") 1667 — John Milton, Paradise Lost *1687 — Sir Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica *1692 — Salem witchcraft executions 1719 — Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe 1726 — Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels 1740 — Samuel Richardson, Pamela 1740-5 — The Great Awakening (religious revival) 1749 — Henry Fielding, Tom Jones *1751 — Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" 1755 - Ben Johnson, Dictionary 1760-67 — Lawrence Stern, Tristram Shandy 1765-1830 — Revolutionary and Early National Period *1770 — Oliver Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village" 1771 — Ben Franklin, Autobiography 1775-1783 — Revolutionary War 1776 —Declaration of Independence 1783-85 — Noah Webster, Grammatical Institute of the English Language (speller, grammar, reader) *1789 — French Revolution begins 1798-1832: Romantic Period 1798 — William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads 1811 — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility 1817 — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein 1819 — Lord Byron, Don Juan I and II *1820 — The Missouri Compromise 1820 — Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe 1830 — Edgar Allan Poe, Poems 1832-1870: Early Victorian Age (English Literature) 1836 — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature 1836 — Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers 1837 — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales 1842 — Robert Browning, Dramatic Lyrics; Lord Tennyson, Poems 1845 — Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven 1847 — Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights; Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre 1847-8 — Thackeray, Vanity Fair 1849 — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield 1850 — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese 1850 — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter 1851 — Herman Melville, Moby Dick 1852 — Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1854 — Henry David Thoreau, Walden 1855 — Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass 1859 — Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species 1860 — George Eliot, Mill on the Floss *1860-5 — American Civil War 1865-1914: Realistic Period (American Literature) 1867 — Karl Marx, Das Kapital 1868 — Louisa May Alcott, Little Women 1872 — George Eliot, Middlemarch 1874 — Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd 1876 — Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer 1879 — Henry James, Daisy Miller; * Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House 1883 — Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island 1884 — Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn 1891 — Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles 1893 — George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren’s Profession 1895 — Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest; Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage 1900-1930: Naturalistic and Symbolistic Period (American Only) 1900 — Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie 1901-1910: Edwardian Period 1903 — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Jack London, The Call of the Wild 1905 — Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth 1907 — John Millington Synge, Playboy of the Western World 1913 — D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers; Willa Cather, O Pioneers! 1914-1918: First World War 1917 — T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" 1921- Aldous Huxley, Chrome Yellow 1922 - James Joyce, Ulysses; T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land 1924 - E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

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Aliens, Time Travel, and Dresden -Slaughterhouse-Five Part I: Crash Course Literature 212

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Updated: 15 May 2014
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You can directly support Crash Course at https://www.patreon.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Free is nice, but if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing this content. In which John Green teaches you about Kurt Vonnegut's most famous novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. Vonnegut wrote the book in the Vietnam era, and it closely mirrors his personal experiences in World War II, as long as you throw out the time travel and aliens and porn stars and stuff. Slaughterhouse-Five tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, a World War II veteran who was a prisoner of war, and survived the Battle of the Bulge and the fire-bombing of Dresden, goes home after the war, and has trouble adapting to civilian life (this is the part that's like Vonnegut's own experience). Billy Pilgrim has flashbacks to the war that he interprets as being "unstuck in time." He believes he's been abducted by aliens, and pretty much loses it. You'll learn a little about Vonnegut's life, quite a bit about Dresden, and probably more than you'd like about barbershop quartets as a metaphor for post traumatic stress.

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You can directly support Crash Course at https://www.patreon.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Free is nice, but if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing this content. In which John Green teaches you about Kurt Vonnegut's most famous novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. Vonnegut wrote the book in the Vietnam era, and it closely mirrors his personal experiences in World War II, as long as you throw out the time travel and aliens and porn stars and stuff. Slaughterhouse-Five tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, a World War II veteran who was a prisoner of war, and survived the Battle of the Bulge and the fire-bombing of Dresden, goes home after the war, and has trouble adapting to civilian life (this is the part that's like Vonnegut's own experience). Billy Pilgrim has flashbacks to the war that he interprets as being "unstuck in time." He believes he's been abducted by aliens, and pretty much loses it. You'll learn a little about Vonnegut's life, quite a bit about Dresden, and probably more than you'd like about barbershop quartets as a metaphor for post traumatic stress.

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Joachim Raff - String Quartet No. 7 (1876)

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Painting Info - Thomas Kinkade - Sea of Tranquility I. The Youth - 00:00 II. The Mill - 7:50 III. The Miller Maiden - 10:12 IV. Uneasiness - 18:28 V. Declarati...

Painting Info - Thomas Kinkade - Sea of Tranquility I. The Youth - 00:00 II. The Mill - 7:50 III. The Miller Maiden - 10:12 IV. Uneasiness - 18:28 V. Declaration - 20:42 VI. Festivities on the Eve of the Wedding - 23:32 Raff's seventh string quartet, subtitled The Maid of the Mill after Schubert's famous song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin, was one of the most performed string quartets on concert programs between 1876 and 1914. And Raff himself, during this period, was widely regarded along with Wagner, Liszt, and Brahms as one of Germany's leading composers. All of the critical commentaries which appeared during those years spoke of him as an equal to such masters as Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky. Incredibly, by the 1920's his music had all but disappeared from the concert stage. It seems virtually unimaginable that a composer whose talent was recognized and whose music was admired by Mendelssohn and Liszt, could become a mere footnote, yet this is what became of Raff and his music for most of the 20th century. Only now is he being rediscovered to the delight of those fortunate enough to hear his music. Joachim Raff (1822-1882) was born near Zurich and his family had hoped he would be come a school teacher, but music was his first love. Basically self-taught, Raff sent some of his early compositions to Mendelssohn who immediately recognized his talent and arranged for their publication. Unfortunately, Mendelssohn died before he could help Raff much more. The young composer then approached Liszt who also took an interest in him and took him on as his personal secretary and copyist. During the six years he spent with Liszt, Raff became a member of the so-called "New German School" led by Wagner and Liszt. Although he broke from them in 1856, he was still regarded as a Wagnerite by the supporters of Brahms and the other classicists. In short, Raff was in neither camp, but attacked by both. Isolated, he went his own way, paying little attention to the musical politics of late 19th century Germany. His String Quartet No.7 dates from 1876, and was an immediate success from its premier. It is a programmatic work which tells the same story as Schubert's song cycle by the same name. A young man passes by a mill and sees a beautiful girl, the maid of the mill. For him, it is love at first sight. Finally he proposes and she accepts. In six movements, the opening Allegro presents the young fellow as he travels along. The second movement, subtitled the The Mill, also is an Allegro. At one time, this was one of the most famous movements in the entire string quartet literature and was frequently played by itself as an encore. The third movement, a lovely Andante quasi Adagietto, portrays the Maid of the Mill. Then comes Unrest, an Allegro, which portrays the young man struggling to get up the courage to propose. The fifth movement, Andantino quasi Allegretto, also was quite famous and used as an encore for more than half a century. Entitled The Proposal, it is a highly romantic lovers' duet between the cello and first violin. The finale, Wedding Eve Feast (Zum Polterabend) is the traditional celebration in German lands which takes place the night before the wedding. At the feast, old crockery was smashed to bring luck to the happy couple.

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Painting Info - Thomas Kinkade - Sea of Tranquility I. The Youth - 00:00 II. The Mill - 7:50 III. The Miller Maiden - 10:12 IV. Uneasiness - 18:28 V. Declaration - 20:42 VI. Festivities on the Eve of the Wedding - 23:32 Raff's seventh string quartet, subtitled The Maid of the Mill after Schubert's famous song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin, was one of the most performed string quartets on concert programs between 1876 and 1914. And Raff himself, during this period, was widely regarded along with Wagner, Liszt, and Brahms as one of Germany's leading composers. All of the critical commentaries which appeared during those years spoke of him as an equal to such masters as Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky. Incredibly, by the 1920's his music had all but disappeared from the concert stage. It seems virtually unimaginable that a composer whose talent was recognized and whose music was admired by Mendelssohn and Liszt, could become a mere footnote, yet this is what became of Raff and his music for most of the 20th century. Only now is he being rediscovered to the delight of those fortunate enough to hear his music. Joachim Raff (1822-1882) was born near Zurich and his family had hoped he would be come a school teacher, but music was his first love. Basically self-taught, Raff sent some of his early compositions to Mendelssohn who immediately recognized his talent and arranged for their publication. Unfortunately, Mendelssohn died before he could help Raff much more. The young composer then approached Liszt who also took an interest in him and took him on as his personal secretary and copyist. During the six years he spent with Liszt, Raff became a member of the so-called "New German School" led by Wagner and Liszt. Although he broke from them in 1856, he was still regarded as a Wagnerite by the supporters of Brahms and the other classicists. In short, Raff was in neither camp, but attacked by both. Isolated, he went his own way, paying little attention to the musical politics of late 19th century Germany. His String Quartet No.7 dates from 1876, and was an immediate success from its premier. It is a programmatic work which tells the same story as Schubert's song cycle by the same name. A young man passes by a mill and sees a beautiful girl, the maid of the mill. For him, it is love at first sight. Finally he proposes and she accepts. In six movements, the opening Allegro presents the young fellow as he travels along. The second movement, subtitled the The Mill, also is an Allegro. At one time, this was one of the most famous movements in the entire string quartet literature and was frequently played by itself as an encore. The third movement, a lovely Andante quasi Adagietto, portrays the Maid of the Mill. Then comes Unrest, an Allegro, which portrays the young man struggling to get up the courage to propose. The fifth movement, Andantino quasi Allegretto, also was quite famous and used as an encore for more than half a century. Entitled The Proposal, it is a highly romantic lovers' duet between the cello and first violin. The finale, Wedding Eve Feast (Zum Polterabend) is the traditional celebration in German lands which takes place the night before the wedding. At the feast, old crockery was smashed to bring luck to the happy couple.

published: 11 Sep 2013
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Slavery, Ghosts, and Beloved: Crash Course Literature 214

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Duration: 11:39
Updated: 29 May 2014
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You can directly support Crash Course at https://www.patreon.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Free is nice, but if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing this content. In which John Green teaches you about Beloved by Toni Morrison. I'll warn you up front, this book is something of a downer. That's because it deals with subjects like slavery, the death of a child, a potential haunting, and a bunch of other sad stuff. John will talk about Beloved in relation to slavery, and how that terrible institution affected individuals, families, and all of American culture in the years surrounding the Civil War. We will also not be getting into whether or not Beloved was a ghost, because it really has no bearing on what the book has to say. Also, as usual, spoilers abound, so we recommend you read the book before you watch this video!

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You can directly support Crash Course at https://www.patreon.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Free is nice, but if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing this content. In which John Green teaches you about Beloved by Toni Morrison. I'll warn you up front, this book is something of a downer. That's because it deals with subjects like slavery, the death of a child, a potential haunting, and a bunch of other sad stuff. John will talk about Beloved in relation to slavery, and how that terrible institution affected individuals, families, and all of American culture in the years surrounding the Civil War. We will also not be getting into whether or not Beloved was a ghost, because it really has no bearing on what the book has to say. Also, as usual, spoilers abound, so we recommend you read the book before you watch this video!

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Fraud of the Century: The Election of President Hayes

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Updated: 24 Jul 2014
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Set in the centennial year of the United States, the 1876 Presidential election was one of the most dynamic and powerful elections in American history. Embroile...

Set in the centennial year of the United States, the 1876 Presidential election was one of the most dynamic and powerful elections in American history. Embroiled in claims of corruption and controversial legality, the contest between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden nearly sparked a civil war among political parties. The older, more politically experienced Tilden, received the popular vote and was known as an intellectual politician. However, it was Hayes, the more practical politician, who eventually took the oath of office, after an exhaustive recount of the electoral vote. The battle for the presidency of 1876 depleted Tilden's personal and political spirit and dampened Hayes' political reputation on both sides of the political aisle. Roy Morris Jr. is a former newspaper reporter and political writer. Morris was founding editor of America's Civil War for 13 years before assuming his current post as editor of Military Heritage in 2004. He has also served as a consultant for the A&E; television network and the History Channel, and edited a three-book series for Purdue University Press on Civil War and post-Civil War history, culture, journalism and literature. Morris is also the author of six well-received books on 19th-Century American history and literature, including: Lighting Out for the Territory, The Long Pursuit, Fraud of the Century, The Better Angel; Ambrose Bierce, and Sheridan. His seventh book, Declaring His Genius, will be published by Harvard University Press in December 2012.

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Set in the centennial year of the United States, the 1876 Presidential election was one of the most dynamic and powerful elections in American history. Embroiled in claims of corruption and controversial legality, the contest between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden nearly sparked a civil war among political parties. The older, more politically experienced Tilden, received the popular vote and was known as an intellectual politician. However, it was Hayes, the more practical politician, who eventually took the oath of office, after an exhaustive recount of the electoral vote. The battle for the presidency of 1876 depleted Tilden's personal and political spirit and dampened Hayes' political reputation on both sides of the political aisle. Roy Morris Jr. is a former newspaper reporter and political writer. Morris was founding editor of America's Civil War for 13 years before assuming his current post as editor of Military Heritage in 2004. He has also served as a consultant for the A&E; television network and the History Channel, and edited a three-book series for Purdue University Press on Civil War and post-Civil War history, culture, journalism and literature. Morris is also the author of six well-received books on 19th-Century American history and literature, including: Lighting Out for the Territory, The Long Pursuit, Fraud of the Century, The Better Angel; Ambrose Bierce, and Sheridan. His seventh book, Declaring His Genius, will be published by Harvard University Press in December 2012.

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Bill Murray Reads Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn - Literary and Historical Significance of the Novel

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Updated: 29 Jul 2013
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in England in Decembe...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective). It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Satirizing a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. Perennially popular with readers, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has also been the continued object of study by literary critics since its publication. It was criticized upon release because of its coarse language and became even more controversial in the 20th century because of its perceived use of racial stereotypes and because of its frequent use of the racial slur "nigger", despite strong arguments that the protagonist, and the tenor of the book, is anti-racist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn William James "Bill" Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an American actor and comedian. He first gained exposure on Saturday Night Live in which he earned an Emmy Award and later went on to star in comedy films, including Caddyshack (1980), Ghostbusters (1984) and Groundhog Day (1993). Murray gained additional critical acclaim later in his career, starring in Lost in Translation (2003), which earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination, the indie comedy-drama Broken Flowers (2005) and a series of films directed by Wes Anderson, including Rushmore (1998), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) and Moonrise Kingdom (2012). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Murray Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 -- April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel." Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which provided the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. After an apprenticeship with a printer, he worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his singular lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. In 1865, his humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published, based on a story he heard at Angels Hotel in Angels Camp California where he had spent some time as a miner. The short story brought international attention, even being translated to classic Greek. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. Though Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he invested in ventures that lost a great deal of money, notably the Paige Compositor, which failed because of its complexity and imprecision. In the wake of these financial setbacks he filed for protection from his creditors via a bankruptcy filing, and with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers eventually overcame his financial troubles. Twain chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, though he had no responsibility to do this under the law. Twain was born shortly after a visit by Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it," too. He died the day following the comet's subsequent return. He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age," and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_twain

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective). It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Satirizing a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. Perennially popular with readers, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has also been the continued object of study by literary critics since its publication. It was criticized upon release because of its coarse language and became even more controversial in the 20th century because of its perceived use of racial stereotypes and because of its frequent use of the racial slur "nigger", despite strong arguments that the protagonist, and the tenor of the book, is anti-racist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn William James "Bill" Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an American actor and comedian. He first gained exposure on Saturday Night Live in which he earned an Emmy Award and later went on to star in comedy films, including Caddyshack (1980), Ghostbusters (1984) and Groundhog Day (1993). Murray gained additional critical acclaim later in his career, starring in Lost in Translation (2003), which earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination, the indie comedy-drama Broken Flowers (2005) and a series of films directed by Wes Anderson, including Rushmore (1998), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) and Moonrise Kingdom (2012). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Murray Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 -- April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel." Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which provided the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. After an apprenticeship with a printer, he worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his singular lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. In 1865, his humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published, based on a story he heard at Angels Hotel in Angels Camp California where he had spent some time as a miner. The short story brought international attention, even being translated to classic Greek. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. Though Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he invested in ventures that lost a great deal of money, notably the Paige Compositor, which failed because of its complexity and imprecision. In the wake of these financial setbacks he filed for protection from his creditors via a bankruptcy filing, and with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers eventually overcame his financial troubles. Twain chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, though he had no responsibility to do this under the law. Twain was born shortly after a visit by Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it," too. He died the day following the comet's subsequent return. He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age," and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_twain

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18th and 19th Century English Literature - Part 1

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This Lecture talks about 18th and 19th Century English Literature.

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The Adventures of Pinocchio

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An old carpenter carves a little wooden puppet from a mysterious piece of wood that seems to have the ability to talk! He begins to love the little creature lik...

An old carpenter carves a little wooden puppet from a mysterious piece of wood that seems to have the ability to talk! He begins to love the little creature like his own son and names him Pinocchio. But the mischievous fellow runs away from his loving father as soon as he learns to walk. The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi follows the misadventures and naughty exploits of this delightfully “human” puppet who in his heart of hearts longs only to become a real boy. Carlo Collodi was the pen name of a gifted writer of children's books, Carlo Lorenzini who lived in Florence, Italy, during the late 19th century. He was also a political activist and author of several novels, short novels, articles and sketches for adults. He began writing for children in 1876 and translated children's literature from other languages into Italian. The Adventures of Pinnochio is meant to be an allegory and a cautionary tale for children. Through the adventures of this playful and headstrong puppet, Collodi provides many valuable lessons for young children. Wonderful characters like the Talking Cricket, the Fox and the Cat, the Fairy with the Turquoise Hair and old Gepetto himself are colorful, memorable and each one contributes to Pinnochio's final transformation. With plenty of magical moments, fantasy and thrills, the plot provides enough excitement for children of all ages. Since it first appeared in 1883, the book has enjoyed immense fame and popularity. There have been innumerable translations into more than 250 major world languages, making it the most translated book in the world. There have been plenty of adaptations for stage, radio, television and film, including cartoons and merchandise. Pinnochio's long nose has even become a metaphor for people who tell lies. As a pioneer in the field, Collodi's works became instantly popular, as children's literature as a genre was not very prevalent before the 19th century. His easy and engaging style caught the imagination of children instantly and became a benchmark for children's writers ever since. There are some very endearing and thought-provoking moments and incidents in the story, which make it very memorable for both children and adults. Enduring values of love and loyalty, the essential contradictions that make us human and the transformation of a rebellious, thoughtless, uncaring and self-indulgent youngster into a mature young person are what makes this story so beloved and treasured the world over.

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An old carpenter carves a little wooden puppet from a mysterious piece of wood that seems to have the ability to talk! He begins to love the little creature like his own son and names him Pinocchio. But the mischievous fellow runs away from his loving father as soon as he learns to walk. The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi follows the misadventures and naughty exploits of this delightfully “human” puppet who in his heart of hearts longs only to become a real boy. Carlo Collodi was the pen name of a gifted writer of children's books, Carlo Lorenzini who lived in Florence, Italy, during the late 19th century. He was also a political activist and author of several novels, short novels, articles and sketches for adults. He began writing for children in 1876 and translated children's literature from other languages into Italian. The Adventures of Pinnochio is meant to be an allegory and a cautionary tale for children. Through the adventures of this playful and headstrong puppet, Collodi provides many valuable lessons for young children. Wonderful characters like the Talking Cricket, the Fox and the Cat, the Fairy with the Turquoise Hair and old Gepetto himself are colorful, memorable and each one contributes to Pinnochio's final transformation. With plenty of magical moments, fantasy and thrills, the plot provides enough excitement for children of all ages. Since it first appeared in 1883, the book has enjoyed immense fame and popularity. There have been innumerable translations into more than 250 major world languages, making it the most translated book in the world. There have been plenty of adaptations for stage, radio, television and film, including cartoons and merchandise. Pinnochio's long nose has even become a metaphor for people who tell lies. As a pioneer in the field, Collodi's works became instantly popular, as children's literature as a genre was not very prevalent before the 19th century. His easy and engaging style caught the imagination of children instantly and became a benchmark for children's writers ever since. There are some very endearing and thought-provoking moments and incidents in the story, which make it very memorable for both children and adults. Enduring values of love and loyalty, the essential contradictions that make us human and the transformation of a rebellious, thoughtless, uncaring and self-indulgent youngster into a mature young person are what makes this story so beloved and treasured the world over.

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The Lost Generation: Literature of the 1920s

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Project for an APUSH class on the literature--from novels, poems, magazines, and cartoon strips--and popular authors, of the 1920s.

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Project for an APUSH class on the literature--from novels, poems, magazines, and cartoon strips--and popular authors, of the 1920s.

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synthesis in literary analysis essays

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This podcast will help you to understand how to synthesize evidence from multiple texts and incorporate this textual evidence into a literary analysis essay.

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This podcast will help you to understand how to synthesize evidence from multiple texts and incorporate this textual evidence into a literary analysis essay.

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Preservation at the American Antiquarian Society

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How printed materials are preserved at the American Antiquarian Society is the subject of this short film. The American Antiquarian Society is a national resear...

How printed materials are preserved at the American Antiquarian Society is the subject of this short film. The American Antiquarian Society is a national research library and center for study of American history, literature and culture from 1640 to 1876.

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How printed materials are preserved at the American Antiquarian Society is the subject of this short film. The American Antiquarian Society is a national research library and center for study of American history, literature and culture from 1640 to 1876.

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Why Classic American Literature Remains Indispensable: Writers (1997)

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Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period. The bulk of his writings was published between 1846 and 1857. Best known for his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851), he is also legendary for having been forgotten during the last thirty years of his life. Melville's writing is characteristic for its allusivity. "In Melville's manipulation of his reading," scholar Stanley T. Williams wrote, "was a transforming power comparable to Shakespeare's."[1] Born in New York City, he was the third child of a merchant in French dry-goods, with Revolutionary War heroes for grandfathers. Not long after the death of his father in 1832, his schooling stopped abruptly. After having been a schoolteacher for a short time, he signed up for a merchant voyage to Liverpool in 1839. A year and a half into his first whaling voyage, in 1842 he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, where he lived among the natives for a month. His first book, Typee (1846) became a huge bestseller which called for a sequel, Omoo (1847). The same year Melville married Elizabeth Knapp Shaw; their four children were all born between 1849 and 1855. In August 1850, having moved to Pittsfield, he established a profound friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne, though the relationship lost intensity after the latter moved away. Moby-Dick (1851) did not become a success, and Pierre (1852) put an end to his career as a popular author. From 1853 to 1856 he wrote short fiction for magazines, collected as The Piazza Tales (1856). In 1857, while Melville was on a voyage to England and the Near East, The Confidence-Man appeared, the last prose work published during his lifetime. From then on Melville turned to poetry. Having secured a position of Customs Inspector in New York, his poetic reflection on the Civil War appeared as Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866). In 1867 his oldest child Malcolm died at home from a self-inflicted gunshot. For the epic Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) he drew upon his experience in Egypt and Palestine from twenty years earlier. In 1886 he retired as Customs Inspector and privately published some volumes of poetry in small editions. During the last years of his life, interest in him was reviving and he was approached to have his biography written, but his death in 1891 from cardiovascular disease subdued the revival before it could gain momentum. Inspired perhaps by the growing interest in him, in his final years he had been working on a prose story one more time and left the manuscript of Billy Budd, Sailor, which was published in 1924. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.[2] He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail.[3] He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.[3] He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau

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English Literary HistoryPeriods

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Literary History Timeline * Historical or non-English / American item ? B.C. — A. D. 428: Celtic and Roman Britain 428 — 1100: Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period c. 700 — Beowulf composed in present form *1066 — Battle of Hastings (Norman Conquest) *1215 — Signing of Magna Carta *c. 1307 — 1321 — Dante's Divina Commedia 1350 — 1500: Middle English Period c. 1387 — Chaucer, "Prologue" to Canterbury Tales *1492 — Columbus lands in America 1500 — 1660: The Renaissance (in England; 1607 - 1780 is considered the "Colonial" period in America) *1517 —Martin Luther posts his theses in Wittenberg, leading to Protestant Reformation *1532 — Machiavelli, The Prince 1539 — English Bible (the "Great Bible") published *1558 — 1603 — Reign of Queen Elizabeth I 1564 — 1616 — Life of William Shakespeare 1601 — Shakespeare's Hamlet *1605 — Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part I *1607 — Settlement at Jamestown, Virginia 1611 — King James translation of the Bible *1620 — Pilgrims land at Plymouth *1640 — Bay Psalm Book: first book printed in America *1649 — Execution of Charles I *1649 — 1660 — Commonwealth Period–England ruled by Parliament 1660 — 1798: Neoclassical Period (also known as "The Long 18th Century") *1660 — Charles II restored to the throne ("The Restoration") 1667 — John Milton, Paradise Lost *1687 — Sir Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica *1692 — Salem witchcraft executions 1719 — Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe 1726 — Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels 1740 — Samuel Richardson, Pamela 1740-5 — The Great Awakening (religious revival) 1749 — Henry Fielding, Tom Jones *1751 — Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" 1755 - Ben Johnson, Dictionary 1760-67 — Lawrence Stern, Tristram Shandy 1765-1830 — Revolutionary and Early National Period *1770 — Oliver Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village" 1771 — Ben Franklin, Autobiography 1775-1783 — Revolutionary War 1776 —Declaration of Independence 1783-85 — Noah Webster, Grammatical Institute of the English Language (speller, grammar, reader) *1789 — French Revolution begins 1798-1832: Romantic Period 1798 — William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads 1811 — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility 1817 — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein 1819 — Lord Byron, Don Juan I and II *1820 — The Missouri Compromise 1820 — Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe 1830 — Edgar Allan Poe, Poems 1832-1870: Early Victorian Age (English Literature) 1836 — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature 1836 — Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers 1837 — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales 1842 — Robert Browning, Dramatic Lyrics; Lord Tennyson, Poems 1845 — Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven 1847 — Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights; Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre 1847-8 — Thackeray, Vanity Fair 1849 — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield 1850 — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese 1850 — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter 1851 — Herman Melville, Moby Dick 1852 — Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1854 — Henry David Thoreau, Walden 1855 — Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass 1859 — Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species 1860 — George Eliot, Mill on the Floss *1860-5 — American Civil War 1865-1914: Realistic Period (American Literature) 1867 — Karl Marx, Das Kapital 1868 — Louisa May Alcott, Little Women 1872 — George Eliot, Middlemarch 1874 — Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd 1876 — Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer 1879 — Henry James, Daisy Miller; * Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House 1883 — Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island 1884 — Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn 1891 — Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles 1893 — George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren’s Profession 1895 — Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest; Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage 1900-1930: Naturalistic and Symbolistic Period (American Only) 1900 — Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie 1901-1910: Edwardian Period 1903 — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Jack London, The Call of the Wild 1905 — Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth 1907 — John Millington Synge, Playboy of the Western World 1913 — D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers; Willa Cather, O Pioneers! 1914-1918: First World War 1917 — T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" 1921- Aldous Huxley, Chrome Yellow 1922 - James Joyce, Ulysses; T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land 1924 - E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

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Aliens, Time Travel, and Dresden -Slaughterhouse-Five Part I: Crash Course Literature 212

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You can directly support Crash Course at https://www.patreon.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Free is nice, but if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing this content. In which John Green teaches you about Kurt Vonnegut's most famous novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. Vonnegut wrote the book in the Vietnam era, and it closely mirrors his personal experiences in World War II, as long as you throw out the time travel and aliens and porn stars and stuff. Slaughterhouse-Five tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, a World War II veteran who was a prisoner of war, and survived the Battle of the Bulge and the fire-bombing of Dresden, goes home after the war, and has trouble adapting to civilian life (this is the part that's like Vonnegut's own experience). Billy Pilgrim has flashbacks to the war that he interprets as being "unstuck in time." He believes he's been abducted by aliens, and pretty much loses it. You'll learn a little about Vonnegut's life, quite a bit about Dresden, and probably more than you'd like about barbershop quartets as a metaphor for post traumatic stress.

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Joachim Raff - String Quartet No. 7 (1876)

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Painting Info - Thomas Kinkade - Sea of Tranquility I. The Youth - 00:00 II. The Mill - 7:50 III. The Miller Maiden - 10:12 IV. Uneasiness - 18:28 V. Declaration - 20:42 VI. Festivities on the Eve of the Wedding - 23:32 Raff's seventh string quartet, subtitled The Maid of the Mill after Schubert's famous song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin, was one of the most performed string quartets on concert programs between 1876 and 1914. And Raff himself, during this period, was widely regarded along with Wagner, Liszt, and Brahms as one of Germany's leading composers. All of the critical commentaries which appeared during those years spoke of him as an equal to such masters as Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky. Incredibly, by the 1920's his music had all but disappeared from the concert stage. It seems virtually unimaginable that a composer whose talent was recognized and whose music was admired by Mendelssohn and Liszt, could become a mere footnote, yet this is what became of Raff and his music for most of the 20th century. Only now is he being rediscovered to the delight of those fortunate enough to hear his music. Joachim Raff (1822-1882) was born near Zurich and his family had hoped he would be come a school teacher, but music was his first love. Basically self-taught, Raff sent some of his early compositions to Mendelssohn who immediately recognized his talent and arranged for their publication. Unfortunately, Mendelssohn died before he could help Raff much more. The young composer then approached Liszt who also took an interest in him and took him on as his personal secretary and copyist. During the six years he spent with Liszt, Raff became a member of the so-called "New German School" led by Wagner and Liszt. Although he broke from them in 1856, he was still regarded as a Wagnerite by the supporters of Brahms and the other classicists. In short, Raff was in neither camp, but attacked by both. Isolated, he went his own way, paying little attention to the musical politics of late 19th century Germany. His String Quartet No.7 dates from 1876, and was an immediate success from its premier. It is a programmatic work which tells the same story as Schubert's song cycle by the same name. A young man passes by a mill and sees a beautiful girl, the maid of the mill. For him, it is love at first sight. Finally he proposes and she accepts. In six movements, the opening Allegro presents the young fellow as he travels along. The second movement, subtitled the The Mill, also is an Allegro. At one time, this was one of the most famous movements in the entire string quartet literature and was frequently played by itself as an encore. The third movement, a lovely Andante quasi Adagietto, portrays the Maid of the Mill. Then comes Unrest, an Allegro, which portrays the young man struggling to get up the courage to propose. The fifth movement, Andantino quasi Allegretto, also was quite famous and used as an encore for more than half a century. Entitled The Proposal, it is a highly romantic lovers' duet between the cello and first violin. The finale, Wedding Eve Feast (Zum Polterabend) is the traditional celebration in German lands which takes place the night before the wedding. At the feast, old crockery was smashed to bring luck to the happy couple.

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Slavery, Ghosts, and Beloved: Crash Course Literature 214

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You can directly support Crash Course at https://www.patreon.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Free is nice, but if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing this content. In which John Green teaches you about Beloved by Toni Morrison. I'll warn you up front, this book is something of a downer. That's because it deals with subjects like slavery, the death of a child, a potential haunting, and a bunch of other sad stuff. John will talk about Beloved in relation to slavery, and how that terrible institution affected individuals, families, and all of American culture in the years surrounding the Civil War. We will also not be getting into whether or not Beloved was a ghost, because it really has no bearing on what the book has to say. Also, as usual, spoilers abound, so we recommend you read the book before you watch this video!

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Fraud of the Century: The Election of President Hayes

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Set in the centennial year of the United States, the 1876 Presidential election was one of the most dynamic and powerful elections in American history. Embroiled in claims of corruption and controversial legality, the contest between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden nearly sparked a civil war among political parties. The older, more politically experienced Tilden, received the popular vote and was known as an intellectual politician. However, it was Hayes, the more practical politician, who eventually took the oath of office, after an exhaustive recount of the electoral vote. The battle for the presidency of 1876 depleted Tilden's personal and political spirit and dampened Hayes' political reputation on both sides of the political aisle. Roy Morris Jr. is a former newspaper reporter and political writer. Morris was founding editor of America's Civil War for 13 years before assuming his current post as editor of Military Heritage in 2004. He has also served as a consultant for the A&E; television network and the History Channel, and edited a three-book series for Purdue University Press on Civil War and post-Civil War history, culture, journalism and literature. Morris is also the author of six well-received books on 19th-Century American history and literature, including: Lighting Out for the Territory, The Long Pursuit, Fraud of the Century, The Better Angel; Ambrose Bierce, and Sheridan. His seventh book, Declaring His Genius, will be published by Harvard University Press in December 2012.

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Bill Murray Reads Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn - Literary and Historical Significance of the Novel

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective). It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Satirizing a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. Perennially popular with readers, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has also been the continued object of study by literary critics since its publication. It was criticized upon release because of its coarse language and became even more controversial in the 20th century because of its perceived use of racial stereotypes and because of its frequent use of the racial slur "nigger", despite strong arguments that the protagonist, and the tenor of the book, is anti-racist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn William James "Bill" Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an American actor and comedian. He first gained exposure on Saturday Night Live in which he earned an Emmy Award and later went on to star in comedy films, including Caddyshack (1980), Ghostbusters (1984) and Groundhog Day (1993). Murray gained additional critical acclaim later in his career, starring in Lost in Translation (2003), which earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination, the indie comedy-drama Broken Flowers (2005) and a series of films directed by Wes Anderson, including Rushmore (1998), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) and Moonrise Kingdom (2012). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Murray Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 -- April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel." Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which provided the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. After an apprenticeship with a printer, he worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his singular lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. In 1865, his humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published, based on a story he heard at Angels Hotel in Angels Camp California where he had spent some time as a miner. The short story brought international attention, even being translated to classic Greek. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. Though Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he invested in ventures that lost a great deal of money, notably the Paige Compositor, which failed because of its complexity and imprecision. In the wake of these financial setbacks he filed for protection from his creditors via a bankruptcy filing, and with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers eventually overcame his financial troubles. Twain chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, though he had no responsibility to do this under the law. Twain was born shortly after a visit by Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it," too. He died the day following the comet's subsequent return. He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age," and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_twain

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18th and 19th Century English Literature - Part 1

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The Adventures of Pinocchio

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An old carpenter carves a little wooden puppet from a mysterious piece of wood that seems to have the ability to talk! He begins to love the little creature like his own son and names him Pinocchio. But the mischievous fellow runs away from his loving father as soon as he learns to walk. The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi follows the misadventures and naughty exploits of this delightfully “human” puppet who in his heart of hearts longs only to become a real boy. Carlo Collodi was the pen name of a gifted writer of children's books, Carlo Lorenzini who lived in Florence, Italy, during the late 19th century. He was also a political activist and author of several novels, short novels, articles and sketches for adults. He began writing for children in 1876 and translated children's literature from other languages into Italian. The Adventures of Pinnochio is meant to be an allegory and a cautionary tale for children. Through the adventures of this playful and headstrong puppet, Collodi provides many valuable lessons for young children. Wonderful characters like the Talking Cricket, the Fox and the Cat, the Fairy with the Turquoise Hair and old Gepetto himself are colorful, memorable and each one contributes to Pinnochio's final transformation. With plenty of magical moments, fantasy and thrills, the plot provides enough excitement for children of all ages. Since it first appeared in 1883, the book has enjoyed immense fame and popularity. There have been innumerable translations into more than 250 major world languages, making it the most translated book in the world. There have been plenty of adaptations for stage, radio, television and film, including cartoons and merchandise. Pinnochio's long nose has even become a metaphor for people who tell lies. As a pioneer in the field, Collodi's works became instantly popular, as children's literature as a genre was not very prevalent before the 19th century. His easy and engaging style caught the imagination of children instantly and became a benchmark for children's writers ever since. There are some very endearing and thought-provoking moments and incidents in the story, which make it very memorable for both children and adults. Enduring values of love and loyalty, the essential contradictions that make us human and the transformation of a rebellious, thoughtless, uncaring and self-indulgent youngster into a mature young person are what makes this story so beloved and treasured the world over.

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The Lost Generation: Literature of the 1920s

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Project for an APUSH class on the literature--from novels, poems, magazines, and cartoon strips--and popular authors, of the 1920s.

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synthesis in literary analysis essays

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This podcast will help you to understand how to synthesize evidence from multiple texts and incorporate this textual evidence into a literary analysis essay.

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Preservation at the American Antiquarian Society

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How printed materials are preserved at the American Antiquarian Society is the subject of this short film. The American Antiquarian Society is a national research library and center for study of American history, literature and culture from 1640 to 1876.

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