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An Outline of American Literature


by Kathryn VanSpanckeren

The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Essayists and Poets: Two reformers

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New England sparkled with intellectual energy in the years before the Civil War. Some of the stars that shine more brightly today than the famous constellation of Brahmins were dimmed by poverty or accidents of gender or race in their own time. Modern readers increasingly value the work of abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier and feminist and social reformer Margaret Fuller.

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