Vigtige litterære udgivelser

Amerikansk litteratur før, i og efter Melvilles samtid

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

  • Autobiography (1771-90)

Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797)

  • The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)

Washington Irving (1783-1859)

  • “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (1820)

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)

  • The Red Rover (1827)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

  • Nature (1836)
  • ”The American Scholar (1837)

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

  • The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838)

Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815-1882)

  • Two Years Before the Mast (1840)

Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)

  • Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

  • Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)
  • The Scarlet Letter (1850)

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

  • Walden (1854)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

  • Leaves of Grass (1855-92)

Evert Augustus Duyckinck (1816-1878) og George Long Duyckinck (1828-1863)

  • The Cyclopaedia of American Literature (1855-1875)

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809 –1894)

  • The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858)

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

  • Poems (posthumt 1890-)

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