American Renaissance (literature)
- American Renaissance (literature)
In American literature, the American Renaissance was the mid-19th century, and especially the period roughly from 1850 to 1855, during which many of the works most widely considered American masterpieces were produced. These included Melville's "Moby-Dick", Whitman's first edition of "Leaves of Grass", Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" and "The House of the Seven Gables", Thoreau's "Walden", and Emerson's "Representative Men" (though most of Emerson's best-known texts preceded the period slightly). The period was first named and critically discussed by F. O. Matthiessen in his 1941 book "American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman". It continues as a central term in American studies.
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