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Magazines, Nineteenth-Century American
Ashlyn Stewart, Kenneth M. Price
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2021-04-21
Nineteenth-Century American MagazinesIntroductionStudying the literature, history, or culture of 19th-century America often requires one to read magaz...
Mailer, Norman
Maggie McKinley
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
Norman MailerIntroductionNorman Mailer (b. 1923–d. 2007) was one of the most prolific American writers of the 20th century. Born in Long Branch, New J...
Malamud, Bernard
Martín Urdiales-Shaw
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2021-10-27
Bernard MalamudIntroductionBernard Malamud (1914–1986) was born of Russian Jewish immigrant parents and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Eras...
Manifest Destiny
Carolyn Kuchera
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Manifest DestinyIntroductionSimply defined, manifest destiny refers to the 19th-century doctrine that the expansion of the United States across the co...
Mather, Cotton
Reiner Smolinski
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Cotton Mather Introduction Few colonial Americans continue to divide public opinion as sharply as does Cotton Mather (b. 1663–d. 1728), whose ...
Maxwell, William
Gretchen Comba
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
William MaxwellIntroductionWilliam Maxwell (b. 1908–d. 2000) was born in Lincoln, Illinois, and lived there until he was fourteen, when he moved to Ch...
McKay, Claude
Myriam Chancy
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2015-03-10
Claude Mckay Introduction Claude McKay (b. 1889–d. 1948), born Festus Claudius McKay in Sunny Ville, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, on 15 Septembe...
Melville, Herman
Dennis Berthold
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Herman Melville Introduction Herman Melville (b. 1819–d. 1891) was born in New York City into a proud and prosperous family. In 1830, however, ...
Merrill, James
David Ben-Merre, Heidi Wallace
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2020-01-15
James MerrillIntroductionJames Merrill (b. 1926–d. 1995) was one of the foremost American poets following the Second World War. Unlike many postwar po...
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Marilyn M. Lombardi
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Edna St. Vincent millayIntroductionEdna St. Vincent Millay (b. 1892–d. 1950) was among the most celebrated poets and accomplished sonnet writers of th...
Miller, Arthur
Susan C.W. Abbotson
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Arthur MillerIntroductionArthur Asher Miller (b. 1915–d. 2005) was born in Harlem, New York. The successful clothing business his immigrant father had...
Moore, Marianne
Ellen Levy
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Marianne Moore Introduction “Everything is worthless but the best and this is the best,” William Carlos Williams said of the poetry of Mariann...
Morrison, Toni
Justine Tally
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
Toni MorrisonIntroductionToni Morrison (b. 1931) was born in Lorrain, Ohio, and christened Cloe Ardelia Wofford by parents whose family roots were in ...
Mourning Dove (Okanogan)
Victoria Lamont
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2018-07-24
Mourning Dove (Okanogan)IntroductionMourning Dove (Okanagan, b. c. 1882–1888–d. 1936) was the second indigenous woman in the United States to publish ...
Mukherjee, Bharati
Feroza Jussawalla
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Bharati MukherjeeIntroductionThe first American author of Indian origin to have the honor to be included in the canon of American literature, Bharati ...
Murray, Judith Sargent
Bonnie Hurd Smith
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Judith Sargent Murray Introduction Judith Sargent Murray (b. 1751–d. 1820) was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, when the American colonies w...
Native American Oral Literatures
Timothy Powell
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Native American Oral Literatures Introduction The oral traditions of Native Americans, Native Alaskans, and First Nations in Canada provide a ...
Newspapers, Nineteenth-Century American
David Grant
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2020-03-25
Nineteenth-Century American NewspapersIntroductionThough political scientists and historians of the 19th-century United States have always turned to n...
Norris, Zoe Anderson
Eve Kahn
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2021-05-26
Zoe Anderson NorrisIntroductionZoe Anderson Norris (b. 29 February 1860–d. 13 February 1914) was a Kentucky-born journalist, fiction writer, and poet ...
Northup, Solomon
Sam McGuire Worley
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2018-06-27
Solomon NorthupIntroductionSolomon Northup is the author of only one work, the narrative Twelve Years a Slave. This work is remarkable in large part b...
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