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American Literature – Before 1860

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19th-century America

19th-century capitalism

19th-century whaling industry

A

A faithful narrative of the surprising work of God

Abolitionist movement

Adventure and exploration

African Tribal Lore

Age of Discovery

Ain't I a woman?

Alexander Hamilton

Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society

American Anti-Slavery Society

American Exceptionalism

American Gothic

American Gothic Criticism

American Identity

American Landscapes

American Philosophical Society

American Realism

American Renaissance

American Revolution

American Romanticism

American Temperance Society

Ancestral secrets

Ancestral Wisdom

Animal Symbolism

Anne Bradstreet

Antebellum period

Anti-conformity

Anti-Federalists

Anti-monarchism

Appeal to emotion

Arthur Dimmesdale

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

B

Bartleby, the Scrivener

Bartolomé de las Casas

Benjamin Franklin

Biblical justification

Blending of horror and romance

Boston Tea Party

British Prison Ship

C

Call me Ishmael

Call-and-response

Calvinism vs. Arminianism

Caroline Lee Hentz

Catharine Beecher

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