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August 17 – Mary Paik Lee, Korean-American writer (died 1995) [12] September 7 – Taylor Caldwell, Anglo-American novelist (died 1985) September 9 – James Hilton, English novelist (died 1954) September 17 – Martha Ostenso, Norwegian-born Canadian novelist and screenwriter (died 1963) [13] October 3 – Thomas Wolfe, American novelist ...
The Knickerbocker Group was a somewhat indistinct group of 19th-century American writers. [1] Its most prominent members included Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper and William Cullen Bryant. Each was a pioneer in general literature—novels, poetry and journalism. Humorously titled after Irving's own pen name, many others later joined ...
Spirited Lives: How Nuns Shaped Catholic Culture and American Life, 1836-1920 (1999) pp 129–58 excerpt and text search; Crews, Clyde F. American And Catholic: A Popular History of Catholicism in the United States (2004), 181pp; Dolan, Jay P. In Search of an American Catholicism: A History of Religion and Culture in Tension (2003) Donovan, Grace.
As Catholic literature was more readily accepted, more and more pieces of literature with Catholic themes and subjects were published. [8] The mid-twentieth century saw a number of Catholic writers prominent in American literature, such as Paul Horgan, Edwin O'Connor, Henry Morton Robinson, Caroline Gordon, and poet Phyllis McGinley.
Literature of the 20th century refers to world literature produced during the 20th century (1901 to 2000).. The main periods in question are often grouped by scholars as Modernist literature, Postmodern literature, flowering from roughly 1900 to 1940 and 1960 to 1990 [1] respectively, roughly using World War II as a transition point.
Writers like Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and poets Ezra Pound, H.D. and T. S. Eliot demonstrate the growth of an international perspective in American literature. American writers had long looked to European models for inspiration, but whereas the literary breakthroughs of the mid-19th century came from finding distinctly American styles and ...
The English-literature chapters begin with Old English poetry and end with the late Victorian era. Coverage of American literature ranges from colonial and revolutionary periods through the early twentieth century. A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller were the joint editors-in-chief of the 14 volumes (with an additional index volume) on English ...
Regional Fictions: Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-17113-1. Witschi, N.S. (2002). Traces of Gold: California's Natural Resources and the Claim to Realism in Western American Literature. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. ISBN 0-8173-1117-3.