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Religion In The 19th Century

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Along with this century, another important subjects can be seen for many writers like Hawthorne’s novel The House of the Seven Gables (1851) which centred on the importance of determining the identity of families by inherited property or subject that show the idea of the relationship between property and women’s body in the novel The Squatter and the Don (1881) by Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton and to reflect the social manners as it in the novel The Portrait of a Lady (1881) by Henry James. There is a significant remark of the nineteenth century that some novelists turned to emphasize the religion aspect of life as it described by Shirley Samuels as following: “some of the most popular novels of the United States focused on religion” …show more content…

Three historical periods for novel can be noticed in this century; the first one was from 1780 to 1860 and this period was explained in previous papers. The second was from 1860 to 1890 and this period led to the rise of realist novel and later to witness many attempts to produce transgeneric works of romance and realism and the third one was from 1890 to 1920. The third period was characterized by flourishing the kind of literary realist-naturalism which prevailed a quarter century and continued for two decades after World War I. The variation of modes and the requirements for explanation offered the novel/romance at this time for discussion. G.R. Thompson mentioned that “The novel/romance issue was a version of the perpetual debate of the real and the ideal shaping western tradition including the conflict of empiricism versus transcendentalism, of mimetic versus poetry, of history versus fiction and of romanticism versus realism (Thomson: 2012, …show more content…

For instance, there was Claude Mckay (1889-1948) who was one of the earliest and most central figures of the Harlem Renaissance and he got great reputation with his book Harlem Shadow (1922) and his first novel Home to Harlem (1928). African American writers of the Harlem Renaissance such as Arna Bontemps, Jesse Fausset, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston reflected the experiences of African Americans with the forms and technique of modernism and their works had a continuing influence on American literature. With the novel Their Eyes were Watching God (1937) by significant female novelist Zora Neale Huston (1891-1960), the experiences of African Americans were addressed

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- Zora Neale Hurston, born January 7th, 1891, was an African-American author, widely known for her classic novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Being raised in Eatonville, Florida, the first black township of the United States, Hurston was indulged in black culture at a very early age. Zora was described to have a fiery, yet bubbly spirit, befriending very influential people, one being American poet, Langston Hughes. With heavy influence from her hometown, along with the achievement of the black women around her, an abundance of motivation came when Hurston wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God. The novel promotes black power, all while rejecting the stereotypes held against women.

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Old practices became a thing of the past with the fast-paced city drawing people into a new life. This worried religious people, hoping that their attendees wouldn’t leave them. Many felt alienated from city life and modernization. This led to direct conflicts against the teaching of science and evolution in schools. This can be seen through the Scopes Trial fiasco of 1925, where fundamentalisms tried putting a teacher in Tennessee behind bars for teaching such things.

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Zora Neale Hurston was a well-known anthropologist and novelist in the 1920s, whose works of literature became popular throughout the Harlem Renaissance. One of her most famous works was Their Eyes Were Watching God, which she wrote while traveling in Haiti. It follows the life of Janie Crawford, a mixed-race girl looking for true love in post-slavery Florida. An important aspect of this novel is Janie’s three marriages, none of which worked out the way she wanted them to. Another one of Hurston’s works was a short story entitled “Sweat”, which is also about a black woman named Delia who has issues with her husband.

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Zora Neale Hurston was a anthropologist, novelist, and folklorist. Zora Neale Hurston played an extremely important part in The Harlem Renaissance, in New York City. Zora Neale Hurston is a prosperous African-American woman of her time. Zora Neale has four novels and over 50 short stories, essays, and plays. She is well known for her novel called Their Eyes Were Watching God, which was published in 1937.

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Dejected by the loss to the American Revolutionary War, George III lost the land acquired overseas and his mental stability. Later on, it was said that he suffered from porphyria, experiencing hallucinations, eventually leading up to his doomed derangement in 1788. The king’s psychotic perception not only mirrors Victor’s maniacal mind, but also paints the setting for Frankenstein, acting as a catalyst to an era of unorthodox vision, pandemonium, and creativity. In the early-to-mid 1700s, literature revolved upon concepts that were “driven by ideas, events, and reason”(“Enlightenment and Romanticism: a Comparison”).

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American author Zora Neale Hurston was a profound author in the mid-1930s. As a young black girl, growing up was not easy for Zora. She experienced racism, debt, the loss of her mother, and poverty. Despite all the struggles she had to face, Zora was determined to make a name for herself. She did just that by writing the iconic book “Their Eyes Were Watching God” in 1937 which is said to be a classic piece for the Harlem Renaissance.

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Zora Neale Hurston wrote the novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," which was released in 1937. The book is recognized as one of Hurston's most significant achievements and as a classic of African American literature. The novel is centered in the rural South and revolves around Janie Crawford, as she experiences love, death, and finding out who she is. The novel examines the theme of gender roles. It is a powerful story of a woman's struggle to be heard and to live her life according to her own principles.

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The nineteenth century was a breeding ground for many literary movements, including realism, romanticism and naturalism. Realism consists of literature that is consistent, predictable, and sticks to the “simple truth” of how regular people live and talk. Romanticism is literature that contains things of intellect, strangeness and remoteness and tries to make the familiar unfamiliar. Finally, naturalism is literature that has regular people in extraordinary circumstances; the hero is at the mercy of larger social and natural forces, which are cruelly indifferent; traces of social Darwinism can be found in the literature and there is generally a brutal struggle for survival. Realism can be seen in The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman,

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