He was born in 1819 in Brooklyn. Whitman left school at 11 to work in different jobs. Office boy, for a doctor, in the printing office of a newspaper. By fifteen, his family moved...
He was born in Boston in 1809. His parents were professional actors. His father abandoned the family some months after Edgar had been born. His mother would die two years later. Poe goes under the protection of John Allan, a scottish merchant. The relationship...
In the middle of the 19th century, white Americans of the North and South were unable to reconcile fundamental differences in their approach to government, economics, society and African American slavery. Abraham Lincoln was elected President, the South...
The present unit, Unit 53, aims to provide a useful introduction to the main literary contributions on the novel, short story and poetry in the United States in the nineteenth century. In general, the literature of the time was both shaped by and reflected the...