American Novel
American Novel must encompass the entire
nation and not be too consumed with a particular region. It must be democratic in spirit and form. Independence,
individualism, freedom, nationalism, and slavery were the prominent themes of this era.
American writers like Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry also used similes and
metaphors in their writings to show the American audience that independence
from Great Britain was necessary.
The main purpose of the
American novel in the 19th century was to describe the complex of ideas and
ideals which defined the beginnings of the great American experiment, in the
New World, with its own kind of religion, culture and compulsions of
environment and history.
In American literature,
essential literary elements are explained, including characters, narratives,
settings, pictures, and themes. It also retells the tales of legends and
personalities that Americans find to align with their cultural values.
Charles Brockden Brown
America’s
habit of thought was focused on the quest for personal identity and spiritual
journeys central to Puritan self-examination. The search for identity and
meaning articulated in Puritan journals appears in many guises in America’s
long-fiction tradition. Herman Melville’s (1819-1891) Ishmael (Moby Dick,
1851), Kate Chopin’s (1851-1904) Edna Pontillier (The Awakening, 1899), F.
Scott Fitzgerald’s (1896- 1940) Amory Blaine (This Side of Paradise, 1920), and
Toni Morrison’s (1931-2019) Milkman (Song of Solomon, 1977) all struggle with
the context and significance of their lives.
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