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Early American lit. characters
characters for early American Lit.
48
Literature
Graduate
08/02/2010

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Cabeza de Vaca
Definition
de Vaca
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John Smith, Narratives of Virginia and New England
Definition
Smith, Pocohontas,
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John Winthrop, A Modell of Christian Charity
Definition
Term
Thomas Morton, New English Canaan
Definition
Endicott, Bradford, Captain Shrimp and the Nine Worthies
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William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation
Definition
Profane young man who drowns, Squanto, Morton
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Mary Rowlandson, captivity narrative
Definition
Rowlandson, Narragansett Tribe
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Samuel Sewell, Diary, "The Selling of Joseph"
Definition
Sewell, Joseph
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Sarah Kemble Knight, Diary
Definition
Knight
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William Byrd II, Histories of the Dividing Line
Definition
Byrd, assorted others
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Cotton Mather, The Wonders of the Invisible World
Definition
witches
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Jonathan Edwards, sermons "Sinners"
Definition
none
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Anne Bradstreet, poems
Definition
none
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Edward Taylor, poems
Definition
none
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Michael Wigglesworth, Day of Doom
Definition
none
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Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography
Definition
written to his son William, royal Gov of NJ
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Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Definition
none
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Publius (James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay), The Federalist papers
Definition
none
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J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer
Definition
none
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Olaudah Equiano, Interesting Narrative
Definition
Equiano
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William Hill Brown, The Power of Sympathy
Definition
Thomas Harrington
Myra Harrington, sister to Harrington
Harriot Fawcet, illegitimate sister to Harrington and Myra
Jack Worthy
Mrs. Eliza Holmes, common friend of Harrington, Harriot, and Myra
Mr. Harrington, Thomas and Myra's father
Maria, Mr. Harrington's mistress and Harriot's mother
Martin and Ophelia
Term
Hannah Webb Foster, The Coquette
Definition
Eliza Wharton
Rev. J. Boyer
Major Peter Sanford
Lucy Freeman (after marriage her last name changes to Sumner)
Charles Deighton
Mr. T. Selby
Julia Granby
Term
Susanna Haswell Rowson, Charlotte Temple
Definition
Charlotte Temple, Montraville (seducer), Madame La Rue, Belcour (Montraville's friend who contributes to Charlotte's ruin by implying an affair)
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Judith Sargent Murray, "On the Equality of the Sexes"
Definition
none
Term
Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland
Definition
Clara Wieland, loves Henry Pleyel, Theodore Wieland, married to Catherine Pleyel, Carwin the biloquist
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Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly
Definition
Edgar Huntly, Waldegreve (dead friend), Clithero (servant). epistolary between Edgar and his fiancee
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Jupiter Hammon, poems
Definition
none
Term
Phillis Wheatley, poems
Definition
none
Term
Robert Munford, The Candidates
Definition
Wou'dbe and Worthy (good), freeholders Guzzle, Twist, Stern, Prize. Bad candidates are Strutabout, Toddy and Smallhopes
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Royall Tyler, The Contrast
Definition
Charlotte Manly (coquettish), Leticia (her friend), Col. Manly (Charlotte's Brother, American man, virtuous), Maria Selby (improves herself by reading, discovers her fiance to be lacking), Mr. Billy Dimple (fiance of Maria, European type, tries to woo Charlotte and Leticia simultaneously)
Term
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
Definition
none
Term
RWE, Divinity School Address
Definition
none
Term
Margaret Fuller, Women in the 19th Century
Definition
none
Term
HDT, Walden
Definition
none
Term
HDT, "Civil Disobedience"
Definition
none
Term
Frederick Douglass, Life of Frederick Douglass
Definition
none
Term
Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Definition
Linda Brent, Dr and Mrs. Brent, Mr. Sands
Term
Elizabeth Stoddard, The Morgesons
Definition
Cassandra Morgeson, Charles (cousin whom she has affair with, dies early), Veronica (sister, marries alcoholic Ben Somers who dies after two years), Desmond Somers (reformed alcoholic, marries Cassandra)
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Harriet Wilson, Our Nig
Definition
Frado Smith (daughter of Mag Smith (white who marries a black man), mulatto), Mrs. Bellmont, Mary Bellmont (bad to Frado), aunt Abbey, James, Jack, Jane Mr. Bellmont (good to Frado)
Term
James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
Definition
Hawkeye
Term
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Definition
Hester Prynne, Pearl, Rev. Dimmesdale, Chillingsworth (ex-husband)
Term
Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
Definition
Clifford and Hepzibah Pynchon, Phoebe Pynchon, Judge Jaffrey Pynchon, Matthew Maule (accused of witchcraft by Col. Pynchon, in order to get his land), Mr. Holgrave (artist, daguerrotypist)
Term
Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance
Definition
Coverdale, Zenobia, Hollingsworth,
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Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
Definition
Ishmael, Queequeg, Cap'n Ahab, Starbuck, Flask, Stubb, Fedallah, Pip, The Rachel
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Definition
Term
Washington Irving, The Sketch Book
Definition
Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle
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Washington Irving, The Alhambra
Definition
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Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Definition
none
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Dickinson, poems
Definition
none
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