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Rip Van Winkle’s dog’s name was Sammy.

American writers of the 1800s believed they could be critical of their nation and early national culture.

In the early decades of the twentieth century, American literature was generally not taught in American universities, or else it was taught in subordinate relation to English literature, which was viewed as having an infinitely superior literary tradition.

Although this individual was a slave owner and committed to removing Indians from the nation, he was regarded as “the incarnation of the democratic spirit of the age.”

Who is the first African American woman known to have authored a slave narrative in the United States?

Walt Whitman was considered a religious poet.

In NO LESS than 100 words, offer an analysis of any one of Emily Dickinson’s poems assigned in the class. Be sure to use specific references from the poem to support any ideas you present.

Poe is considered the father of the detective story.

In her poems, Dickinson frequently examines the relationship between events of everyday life and the things of the

About whom was this quote made in a New York Times publication? “Here was a most remarkable woman, one who lived a great life, but lived it so simply and with such limited consideration for herself that the more you study it the more it grows to be perhaps the truest life that an American woman has yet lived.”