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August 15 – A. E. Waite starts to publish and edit an occult periodical, The Unknown World. October – Lafcadio Hearn begins work as a journalist for the English-language Kobe Chronicle in Japan. November 8 – Robert Frost 's first poem, "My Butterfly" appears in The New York Independent, which pays him $15. December.
Sep 26, 2022 · New Woman. A term coined by British feminist Sarah Grand in an 1894 essay to describe an independent woman who seeks achievement and self-fulfilment beyond the realm of marriage and family. According to Grand, the New Woman “proclaimed for herself what was wrong with Home-is-the-Woman’s-Sphere, and proscribed the remedy” (142).
Carbondale, Ill., 1982. A continuation of Pizer's work on nineteenth-century naturalism, with emphasis on the neglected naturalists of the 1930s and 1940s (including Dos Passos, Farrell, and Styron). Pizer, Donald. Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Rev. ed. Carbondale, Ill., 1984.
Nov 13, 2020 · Historical Criticism is a branch of literary theory and criticism that examines the historical context and development of literary works and movements. Learn about the origins, principles, methods, and challenges of historical criticism from this informative article by Literariness.org, a website dedicated to the study of literature and theory. Discover how historical criticism relates to ...
Kate Chopin, born Katherine O’Flaherty (February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904), was a U.S. author of short stories and novels. She is now considered by some to have been a forerunner of the feminist authors of the 20th century of Southern or Catholic background, such as Zelda Fitzgerald. From 1892 to 1895, she wrote short stories for both ...
Summary. Defined by both cultural vibrancy and widespread poverty, and marked by a long and complex history of trade, migration, cultural exchange, and slavery, the literature of the U.S. South is born of the intricacies of a complex, polymorphous history and culture. The 19th century was a particularly tumultuous period, as the region ...
Jan 17, 2021 · 5.2: Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour,” 1894. Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death. It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing.
