Learning Outcomes

After completing this chapter, you should be able to:

  • Describe the key features of Romanticism.
  • Analyze the ways in which the works of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman broke from the American literary tradition of Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville.
  • Analyze the impact of the Industrial Revolution and the Civil War on American literature.
  • Compare the ways in which Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman established new voices in American literature.

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Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865-Present Copyright © by Amy Berke; Jordan Cofer; Robert R. Bleil; and Doug Davis is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.