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Thanatopsis, 1817 / William Cullen Bryant -- The last of the Mohicans, 1826 / James Fenimore Cooper -- The American scholar (excerpts), 1851 / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano (excerpt), 1789 / Olaudoh Equiano -- Woman in the nineteenth century (excerpt), 1845 / Margaret Fuller -- The market-place, The scarlet letter, 1850 / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The chambered nautilus, 1857 / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Rip van Winkle (excerpt), 1819 / Washington Irving -- The song of Hiawatha (excerpt), 1855 / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Biglow papers, no. 1 (excerpt), 1848 / James Russell Lowell -- The whiteness of the whale, Moby-Dick (excerpt), 1851 / Herman Melville -- The tell-tale heart, 1843 / Edgar Allan Poe -- Wade in the water, slave spiritual, 1830s -- Where I lived, and what I lived for, Walden (excerpt), 1854 / Henry David Thoreau -- An American dictionary of the English language (excerpts), 1828 / Noah Webster -- Snow-bound : a winter idyl, 1866 / John Greenleaf Whittier The Early Republic and the Rise of National Identity provides insights and analysis regarding the history, literature, and cultural climate of the formative period of the Early Republic through the early 1860s. It brings together informational text and primary documents that cover notable historic events and trends, authors, literary works, social movements, and cultural and artistic themes
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