First Assignment
I need to compile an email list for the class.
So email me at:
andrew.pfouts@bvsd.org
all you need to do is send me a note saying “hey it’s (your name).”
After that I want you to do some surfing on the web. Check out some of my Google searches:
19th Century American Literature
Voice of the Shuttle 19th Century
What names come up the most? What do you notice about them? How much you could find on the “big names” of American Literature.
Add a comment by clicking the bottom of this post--where it says
"posted by pfouts at ___AM comments
Go to
"The Sheriff’s Children" and read the story--we'll talk about it tomorrow.
If you're interested, read another story and more about Chesnutt.
Another story: "The Wife of His Youth"
Chesnutt in Wikipedia
Some excerpts of his writings on race
So email me at:
andrew.pfouts@bvsd.org
After that I want you to do some surfing on the web. Check out some of my Google searches:
19th Century American Literature
Voice of the Shuttle 19th Century
What names come up the most? What do you notice about them? How much you could find on the “big names” of American Literature.
Add a comment by clicking the bottom of this post--where it says
"posted by pfouts at ___AM comments
Go to
"The Sheriff’s Children" and read the story--we'll talk about it tomorrow.
If you're interested, read another story and more about Chesnutt.
Another story: "The Wife of His Youth"
Chesnutt in Wikipedia
Some excerpts of his writings on race
posted by pfouts at 5:12 AM
14 Comments:
im very interested in the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and the novel uncle toms cabin.i also want to know more about "The Song of Hiawatha"and other poems
Common uppings of 19th century lit….George W. Cable, Joel Chandler Harris, Mary Noailles Murfree, Charles Egbert Craddock, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, William Sydney Porter/O. Henry, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Abraham Lincoln Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Louisa May Alcott,
I thought we were supposed to comment about the story, but then i read the previous comment and since the 'comment' botton didn't work below the seard engines i decided to post it here, commenting on the prvious comment i don't really want to read Poe, i rather dig deeper into the unknown...and 'the sherif's children' seems kinda deeper and a show of socity, Well written--i must say well written--i think i have interest in hearing more from him.
In researching the authors of the 19th century i found that Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and frederick Douglas are a few of the great authors mentioned most. There are an endless amount of authors that have influenced the literature of the 19th century, however it is easy to see a pattern in the most acclaimed writers. I was very excited when I came upon the name Louisa May Alcott because she is my great great aunt! I wasn't expecting to see her name come up so often, but was very pleased. I haven't read many 19th century authors, however am very anxious to explore the well known writers, as well as the lost voices.
In researching the authors of the 19th century i found that Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and frederick Douglas are a few of the great authors mentioned most. There are an endless amount of authors that have influenced the literature of the 19th century, however it is easy to see a pattern in the most acclaimed writers. I was very excited when I came upon the name Louisa May Alcott because she is my great great aunt! I wasn't expecting to see her name come up so often, but was very pleased. I haven't read many 19th century authors, however am very anxious to explore the well known writers, as well as the lost voices.
I noticed that a lot of the typical names had something else significant in history that is also widely recognized i.e. Fredrick Douglass or Abraham Lincoln and obviously a lot can be found on these “big names”. I think that it's also those who have some kind of intriguing personal, biographical history, but it's also just the fact that some writers gain fame because their works are found to be classics by a general audience, and that hold is timeless, and any typical English teacher will find it a sin to not teach Moby Dick or Tom Sawyer.
In my research I noticed that there are a lot of names that I am familiar with, most of them being men. I was really surprised to see how few of the women writers I had actually heard of. Some of the authors I know and really enjoy reading, like Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. I am really looking forward to getting farther into this class… it seems like it is going to be fun.
Looking over some of the extensive collections of 19th century American authors online, I realize how few pieces I have explored by “classic” authors. Like Alys, I, too, recognized more names of men than those of women; maybe we'll dig up some more women's voices in this class. Here are some of the most common ones I gathered up: Alexander Hamilton, Hawthorne (even though he is a rather big-named author—I want to read some of his pieces…even if it’s by myself!), Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Thoreau, Melville(I would like to get to read some smaller books because Moby Dick was a whopper and I enjoyed it), Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Louisa May Alcott (she actually didn’t show up too much, but I recognized her name!), and Twain. My reading list has already lengthened within the past several minutes just by scrolling through the lists. Though I have heard much about these authors, I am very excited to “find” the “lost” voices of the 19th century!
The letter we went over today from the freedslave to the man-formerly-known-as-“master” really made an impression on me. Jourdan must have been a remarkable guy. Okay, see you all tomorrow.
the "cailin and zoe" posting above is just by me...should be fixed now. cheers!
a few things i noticed while looking on those sites; one thing was that many of the authors were men. I didnt recognize many of the womens names although there were little. I am intrigued by some of the poetry more than the stories but im sure both are great to read an have more seminars about.
I don’t think I need to give you a list of the more popular writers of the time, because some of the other posts covered most of them. When doing research I noticed that almost all of the bigger writers were white males which of course was not a surprise given the time period. I think that there are a lot of writings by African American authors during the 19th century that were not well publicized (“lost”) because of all of the racial issues of the time. I think that there were white writers as well that didn’t get light shed on them because their writing dealt with slavery and were too controversial to be distributed to the public eye. Also the rift between the North and the South I think made it hard for literature to travel.
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I noticed, and so did everyone else, that a few major authors are Poe, Twain, Dickinson and Douglass. I have already experienced some Poe and it wasn't my favorite. i wouldn't mind reading more, i just don't want to do too much Poe reading. i would rather discover some new literature.
With the power of Google there's plenty to be found on all of the big-time authors (the 'white males' that everyone's already mentioned), and it will be interesting to read from authors with different positions and perspectives than other traditional literature of the time. So long as we can dig up decent authors that deserve to be found, and not venture into the land of horrid literature, we'll be in good shape.
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