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Sanchez, Sonia
Jennifer Ryan-Bryant
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2015-06-29
Sonia Sanchez Introduction Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934–), was born Wilsonia Benita Driver in Birmingham, Alabama. Her mother died when she was one ...
Schoolcraft, Jane Johnston
Robert Dale Parker
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft Introduction Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (b. 1800–d. 1842) was the first known American Indian literary writer. She wr...
Sentimentalism and Domestic Fiction
Shirley Samuels
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Sentimentalism and Domestic Fiction Introduction The form of the American domestic and sentimental novel developed in the late 18th and early ...
Sermons
Joe Fulton
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Sermons Introduction For all of the 17th and most of the 18th century, the sermon was the dominant literary form in the American colonies. The...
Sexton, Anne
Linda Wagner-Martin
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-28
Anne SextonIntroductionAnne Gray Harvey Sexton (b. 1928–d. 1974), born in Newton, Massachusetts, was the third daughter of an established and moderate...
Silko, Leslie Marmon
Deborah L. Madsen
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2018-06-27
Leslie Marmon SilkoIntroductionLeslie Marmon Silko was born 5 March 1948 in Albuquerque, of Laguna, Mexican, and white ancestry, and raised on the Lag...
Sinclair, Upton
Nicolas S. Witschi
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2016-01-21
Upton SinclairIntroductionUpton Beall Sinclair Jr., (b. 1878–d. 1968) was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to a family of meager means that still had hist...
Smith, John
William Boelhower
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
John SmithIntroductionCaptain John Smith (b. 1580–d. 1631) won honors and experience as a volunteer soldier on the continent before joining the first ...
Smith, Lillian
Will Brantley
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2020-01-15
Lillian SmithIntroductionLillian Smith (b. 1897–d. 1966) was born in Jasper, Florida, and grew up in a large and well-to-do southern family. In 1915, ...
Spofford, Harriet Prescott
Cindy Murillo
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Harriet Prescott SpoffordIntroductionHarriet Prescott Spofford (b. 1835–d. 1921) was a short-story writer, essayist, novelist, and poet born on 3 Apri...
Stein, Gertrude
Kirk Curnutt
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Gertrude Stein Introduction Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, to Daniel Stein and Amelia (“Milly”) Keyser. Orpha...
Stevens, Wallace
Bart Eeckhout
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
Wallace StevensIntroductionWallace Stevens (b. 1879–d. 1955) occupies a place in American literature that is both secure and insecure. He is a poets’ ...
Stoddard, Elizabeth
Cindy Murillo
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2014-07-30
Elizabeth StoddardIntroductionElizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard (b. 1823–d. 1902) wrote journalistic pieces, novels, short stories, juvenilia fiction, e...
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Martha Schoolman
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2016-03-31
Harriet Beecher StoweIntroductionHarriet Beecher Stowe (b. 1811–d. 1896) was born in Litchfield, Connecticut in 1811, the seventh child of the famous ...
Terry Prince, Lucy
Michael Antonucci
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Lucy Terry PrinceIntroductionLucy Terry Prince (b. c. 1725–d. 1821) was the African-born author of “Bars Fight,” the earliest known literary work in E...
Thoreau, Henry David
William Rossi
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Henry David ThoreauIntroductionHenry David Thoreau (b. 1817–d. 1862) was given the name David Henry at birth, outside Concord, Massachusetts, on the f...
Time Travel
David Wittenberg
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2020-07-29
Time TravelIntroductionTime travel is of interest in several academic research fields that overlap and communicate with one another to varying degrees...
Tourgée, Albion W.
Carolyn L. Karcher
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Albion W. TourgéeIntroductionAlbion Winegar Tourgée (b. 1838–d. 1905), born the son of a farmer of Huguenot descent in Williamsfield, Ohio, attended K...
Transcendentalism
David M. Robinson
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
TranscendentalismIntroductionTranscendentalism was a religious, literary, and political movement that evolved from New England Unitarianism in the 182...
Truth, Sojourner
Nell Irvin Painter
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
Sojourner TruthIntroductionSojourner Truth (b. c. 1797–d. 1883), born enslaved as Isabella Van Wagenen in the Hudson River Valley of Ulster County, Ne...
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