The
Immigrant Experience: The First
Generation
Backgrounds:
I. The Immigrant Experience
Emigration
and
Immigration
Push
and Pull Factors
Common
Experiences
Culture and
Culture Shock
Positive and
Negative Experiences
Factors
Experiences
Immigration
in
Colonization:
The Mother Countries
Land Policies
II. Romanticism
Sources:
Eastern
Philosophies
Nature
and Civilization
The World of
Nature: Power and Consolation
Natural
Theology: Nature, Spirit, and Transcendentalism
The Sublime
The Native and
the Noble Savage
Romantic
Art and
Literature
Themes and
Purpose: Imagination, Reason, and Morality
Genres: Novel
of Sensibility and the Gothic
Lyric
Poetry
Literary
Intention: Author and Reader Response
III. Sociology of
Literature: The Social Factors
Writing
and Publishing:
The Early Nineteenth Century
The Periodical
Genre and the
Magazine
Women
and Literature
Thomas
G. Haliburton:
Satire
The
American: Image and
Character
The
Story Cycle: An
Early Look
Sam
Slick, Clockmaker:
Targets and Techniques
Susanna
Moodie:
Genre
Autobiography
The Sketch:
Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village
(1828)
The Romantic
Novel: Sensibility and the Gothic
Themes
and Motifs
Religion:
Chance and
Class
Language:
Social and National Norms and Differences
Nationalism:
What Is
Purpose:
Didactic
Literature
What
Is the Lesson?
Catharine
Parr
Traill:
The
Sketch and the Guide
Tragedy
and Melancholy
Science,
Nature, and
Literature