Medailonky autorů
Cooper, James Fenimore. (1789 - 1851).
L i f e
- born in Cooperstown = founded and named by his father
> the source for his aristocratic view of the frontier and its inhabitants
> the model for the frontier setting of his The Pioneers...
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Crane, Hart. (1899 - 1932).
L i f e
- a difficult life, uneasiness about his homosexuality, and uncontrollable alcoholism resulted in his suicide
W o r k
< influenced by the modernist French poets A. Rimbaud and S. Mallarmé
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Crane, Stephen. (1871 - 1900).
L i f e
- a rebel against conventions in his bohemian life, choice of his life partner (mistress of one ‘of the better houses of ill fame’), and his ‘muckraker’ work
- a newspaper reporter in New York slums, a...
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Crevecoeur, Hector St John de. (1735 - 1813).
L i f e
- introduced the psychosocial phenomenon of the American identity: ‘What then is the American, this new man?’
- himself an amalgam of identities: served as a commander of the French army under General...
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Cullen, Countee. (1903 - 1946).
L i f e
- born in NY City, abandoned by his parents at birth, and brought up by his grandmother
- later adopted by a Methodist Reverend in Harlem, accepted his name
- received university education in a...
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Cummings, Edward Estlin. (1894 - 1962).
P o e t r y
C o n t e n t :
- scorned the mediocre values of the ‘most-people’ against the bohemian tastes of the artist: celebrated an individual against the mass society
- scorned the conventional verbal...
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Dickinson, Emily. (1830 - 1886).
L i f e
- led one of the most prosaic lives of any great poet: except for a few brief trips spent her entire life in her father’s house, eventually seeing no visitors
- considered eccentric: her constant...
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Dos Passos, John. (1896 - 1970).
L i f e
- an illegitimate son of an American mother and a Portuguese father
- youth: sympathised with communism x middle age: disenchanted, became an anticommunist
- extensively travelled throughout his...
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Douglass, Frederick. (ca 1817 - 1895).
L i f e
- son of a black slave, Harriet Bailey, and an unknown white father
- escaped on the 2nd try (1838) and adopted the name Douglass (from W. Scott’s hero in The Lady of the Lake)
- feared of being...
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Dreiser, Theodore. (1871 - 1945).
L i f e
- son of German immigrants: his father a religious fanatic, his mother kind but illiterate
- grew up poor and unhappy
- sought journalism as an escape from his childhood
- worked with regional...
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Du Bois, W.E.B. (1868 - 1963).
L i f e
- born free, of mixed origin, chiefly black
- did not have to struggle for survival x B. T. Washington
- received a cosmopolitan education, studied both in America and Europe and travelled widely
-...
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Dunbar, Paul Laurence. (1872 - 1906).
W o r k
- supported by his mentor W. D. Howells (claimed he did not care his parents were born slaves in his review), acquainted with F. Douglass, B. T. Washington, and W. E. B. du Bois
- became famous
P...
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Dwight, Timothy. (1752 - 1817).
L i f e
- born in Northampton (Massachusetts) as grandson of the Puritan minister Jonathan Edwards
- received university education (Yale)
- became a tutor at Yale >> then army chaplain and...
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Edwards, Jonathan. (1703 - 1758).
L i f e
- born in Connectitut x but: >> moved to Massachusetts
- received university education (Yale)
- became a preacher and tutor
- determined to improve himself, began writing a didactic-like diary...
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. (1803 - 1882).
L i f e
- grew up in a family including a heritage of nine successive generations of notable New England ministers
- involved with Unitarianism = rejected the Calvinist legacy of Jonathan Edwards and the...
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