Crash Course AP Literature

1840–1860: American Renaissance

Transcendentalism and American Gothic (dark romantics)

Emily Dickinson, poet

Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

Herman Melville: Moby Dick

Edgar Allan Poe, poems and short stories

Transcendentalist Writers

Ralph Waldo Emerson, essays and aphorisms

Henry David Thoreau: Walden

Bronson Alcott

Margaret Fuller, first major feminist writer