American Literature 1878 - 1938 Week 2 by Chrisy Dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2 en-us 2018-09-20 14:16:43 UTC 2023-02-28 18:56:53 UTC hello@padlet.com Week Two Focus: Making Americans chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283934018 Extract from Abraham Cahan's   The Imported Bridegroom.

Extract from Henry James The Europeans

Extract from Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans
]]> 2018-09-20 14:20:10 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283934018 Link to 'The Imported Bridegroom' extract chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283934398 2018-09-20 14:20:39 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283934398 Link to 'The Europeans' extract chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283934868 2018-09-20 14:21:08 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283934868 Link to 'The Making of Americans extract chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283935339 2018-09-20 14:21:45 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283935339 Session Aims chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283937745 To continue our discussion about what makes a text American Literature.]]> 2018-09-20 14:25:13 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283937745 Session Outcomes chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283938072 By the end of the session, you will be able to articulate at least one idea of what makes a text American.]]> 2018-09-20 14:25:34 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283938072 The Transformation of a Nation 1865-1914 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283960779 2018-09-20 14:58:09 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283960779 The Literary Market Place chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283973003 2018-09-20 15:17:01 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283973003 Pushing West chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283973479 2018-09-20 15:17:54 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283973479 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283973825 Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase (1803)]]> 2018-09-20 15:18:30 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283973825 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283974322 The Mexican War (1846-48)]]> 2018-09-20 15:19:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283974322 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283974667 Californian gold (1848)

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Provided cheap labour.
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]]> 2018-09-20 15:23:32 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283977287 Transcontinental settlement and new urban industrial conditions were accompanied by the development of a national literature. chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283982332 2018-09-20 15:31:23 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283982332 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283984017 New genres, themes, subjects, new regions, new authors, new audiences.]]> 2018-09-20 15:34:00 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283984017 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283985495 Dawes Allotment Act (1887)]]> 2018-09-20 15:36:05 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283985495 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283986483 Complex social and cultural engagements of citizens. Largely composed of dispossessed and marginalised peoples. ]]> 2018-09-20 15:37:38 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283986483 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283996714 Realism, naturalism and regionalism, offered different perspectives of 'the winning of the west (Roosevelt)]]> 2018-09-20 15:53:24 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283996714 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283998002 What makes one an American was defined from diverse points of view]]> 2018-09-20 15:55:32 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283998002 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283998741 Different types of fictionalised characters became familiar: industrial workers, the rural poor, ambitious business leaders, vagrants, prostitutes, unheroic soldiers, different racial, religious and social groups were represented in fiction.]]> 2018-09-20 15:56:33 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/283998741 Women from different social groups, African Americans, Native Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans and immigrants began to write for publication chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284002695 2018-09-20 16:02:18 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284002695 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284004027 Magazines and periodicals became part of American life.]]> 2018-09-20 16:04:11 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284004027 Abraham Cahn chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284007673 (July 7, 1860 – August 31, 1951) was a Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician.]]> 2018-09-20 16:09:56 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284007673 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284009455 1897 helped found and edited the Jewish Daily Forward a Yiddish-language newspaper]]> 2018-09-20 16:13:12 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284009455 1892-1917 Cahan begins to write English Fiction chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284013124 2018-09-20 16:20:11 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284013124 Immigrants in 18 & 19 c America chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284042033 2018-09-20 17:10:08 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284042033 Jewish immigration chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284056429 2018-09-20 17:34:58 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284056429 The Making of America Cornell University chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284276179 2018-09-21 09:23:27 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284276179 Henry James chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284930281 15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916]]> 2018-09-24 10:29:00 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284930281 Reading Henry James chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284930882 2018-09-24 10:31:37 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284930882 Henry James chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284932893 Lamb House]]> 2018-09-24 10:39:27 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284932893 The Making of Americans chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284938011 2018-09-24 10:57:46 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284938011 Gertrude Stein chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284938563 2018-09-24 11:00:00 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284938563 Mini Bio chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284939167 2018-09-24 11:02:31 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284939167 Gertrude Stein Reads chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284940140 2018-09-24 11:06:47 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284940140 Realism in American Literature chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284941173 2018-09-24 11:11:13 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284941173 Modernism in American Literature chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284942277 2018-09-24 11:15:11 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284942277 The Daily Forward chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284944287 2018-09-24 11:22:50 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284944287 Jewish American Literature chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284944969 2018-09-24 11:25:22 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Lit_week_2/wish/284944969