Romanticism in the North American Short Story

Cartaphilus. Revista de investigación y crítica estética ◽

10.6018/cartaphilus.456101 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 ◽

Author(s):

Estefanía Sánchez Auñón

Keyword(s):

Short Story ◽

Herman Melville ◽

North American ◽

18Th Century ◽

The North ◽

Romantic Movement ◽

Multiple Characteristics ◽

Bartleby The Scrivener ◽

American Romanticism ◽

Rip Van Winkle

El Romanticismo fue un movimiento extremadamente influyente que surgió a finales del siglo 18 y que tuvo un gran impacto en varias áreas, incluida la literatura. Innumerables escritores han representado en sus obras características esenciales del Romanticismo como la representación de horror y emociones intensas, el uso de entornos naturales exóticos y salvajes, el nacionalismo, el individualismo, la mente humana, y el simbolismo, entre muchas otras. En este artículo, se muestra cómo el Romanticismo influyó, en concreto, la narrativa breve norteamericana analizando cinco obras: “Rip Van Winkle,” de Washington Irving; “The Minister’s Black Veil,” de Nathaniel Hawthorne; “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” de Herman Melville; y “The Minister’s Black Veil” y “The Tell-Tale Heart,” de Edgar Allan Poe. Los resultados que se han obtenido de este análisis han demostrado que estas cinco historias breves se pueden considerar trabajos románticos porque reflejan múltiples características del Romanticismo. De hecho, estos autores retratan las peculiaridades de los dos sub-campos más importantes del Romanticismo Americano conocidos como “Romanticismo Claro” y “Romanticismo Oscuro.” Romanticism was an extremely influential movement which flourished at the end of the 18th century and which had a huge impact on various areas, including literature. Countless writers have represented in their works key Romantic features such as the depiction of horror and intense emotions, the use of exotic and wild natural settings, nationalism, individualism, the reproduction of the human psyche, and symbolism, among many others. In this paper, it is shown how the Romantic Movement influenced, more specifically, the North American short story by analysing five works: Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle,” Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil,” Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.” The results which have been obtained from this analysis have demonstrated that these five short stories can be considered as Romantic works because they reflect multiple characteristics of the Romantic Movement. In fact, these writers portray the peculiarities of the most important subfields of American Romanticism, which are known as “Light Romanticism” and “Dark Romanticism.”

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A contribuição dos museus para a institucionalização e difusão da paleontologia

Anuário do Instituto de Geociências - UFRJ ◽

10.11137/2007_1_158-167 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

pp. 158-167

Author(s):

Ana Carolina Maciel Vieira ◽

Mariana Gonzalez Leandro Novaes ◽

Juliana Da Silva Matos ◽

Ana Carolina Gelmini Faria ◽

Deusana Maria da Costa Machado ◽

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Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Scientific Knowledge ◽

North American ◽

18Th Century ◽

Digital Age ◽

Field Trips ◽

The North ◽

Contemporary Development

Since the calls "cabinets of curiosities", the essence of natural history was consolidating itself with the birth of the museums and the development of the Museums of Natural History. This consolidation was reached through following activities: expeditions, field trips, collection classification works, catalogues of diffusion of scientific knowledge, educativ activities and expositions. The present paper intends to discuss the importance of the museal institutions for the studies of Paleontology; since the museums of Natural History had exerted a pioneering paper in the institutionalization of certain areas of knowledge, as Palaeontology, Anthropology and Experimental Physiology, in Brazil. The Paleontological studies in museums had collaborated in the specialization and modernization of the appearance of "new museum idea". As this new concept the museum is a space of diffusion of scientific knowledge, represented as an object that reflects the identity of the society without an obligator linking with physical constructions. However, the Brazilian museums have been sufficiently obsolete, with problems that involve acquisition and maintenance of collections to production of temporary or permanent exhibitions. When the Brazilian institutions of natural history are analyzed they are not organized on the new museum conception and the digital age as the North American and European ones. Despite the difficulties found by the Museums since its birth as Institution in the 18th century, the contemporary development of Museology and Palaeontology as Science had contributed for the consolidation and institutionalization of both, helping the diffusion of scientific knowledge.

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Case Study #5: Bartleby, the Scrivener, a Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville

Public Voices ◽

10.22140/pv.125 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 162

Author(s):

Ken Nichols

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Short Story ◽

Herman Melville ◽

Carbon Paper ◽

Law Firm ◽

Wall Street ◽

Principal Character ◽

Bartleby The Scrivener ◽

The Relationship

“Bartleby” is the name of the principal character in Herman Melville’s short story about the relationship between a manager and an employee. Bartleby is the employee. His job is to be a scrivener, or a copyist.The setting is a small law firm on Wall Street a century and a half ago — long before computers and photocopy machines, or even typewriters and carbon paper. A scrivener’s job was to copy a document clearly and accurately using the information technology of the day: paper, a bottle of ink, and a sharpened quill.You’ll find that the office technology may be different now than it was in Bartleby’s time, but people are much the same as ever. As you read this story, ask yourself what kind of employee Bartleby is. What kind of boss does the attorney make? Does the story have to end the way it does?

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Piracy in Colonial North America

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.813 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Mark G. Hanna

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

New England ◽

North American ◽

18Th Century ◽

Historical Narrative ◽

British North America ◽

American Colonies ◽

The North ◽

The Pacific ◽

British North American

Historians of colonial British North America have largely relegated piracy to the marginalia of the broad historical narrative from settlement to revolution. However, piracy and unregulated privateering played a pivotal role in the development of every English community along the eastern seaboard from the Carolinas to New England. Although many pirates originated in the British North American colonies and represented a diverse social spectrum, they were not supported and protected in these port communities by some underclass or proto-proletariat but by the highest echelons of colonial society, especially by colonial governors, merchants, and even ministers. Sea marauding in its multiple forms helped shape the economic, legal, political, religious, and cultural worlds of colonial America. The illicit market that brought longed-for bullion, slaves, and luxury goods integrated British North American communities with the Caribbean, West Africa, and the Pacific and Indian Oceans throughout the 17th century. Attempts to curb the support of sea marauding at the turn of the 18th century exposed sometimes violent divisions between local merchant interests and royal officials currying favor back in England, leading to debates over the protection of English liberties across the Atlantic. When the North American colonies finally closed their ports to English pirates during the years following the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), it sparked a brief yet dramatic turn of events where English marauders preyed upon the shipping belonging to their former “nests.” During the 18th century, colonial communities began to actively support a more regulated form of privateering against agreed upon enemies that would become a hallmark of patriot maritime warfare during the American Revolution.

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6. The spread of the Industrial Revolution abroad

10.1093/actrade/9780198706786.003.0006 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Robert C. Allen

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

20Th Century ◽

North American ◽

Western Europe ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

18Th Century ◽

The North ◽

Former Ussr ◽

Industrial Revolutions ◽

Peak Value

The Industrial Revolution may have ended for Britain in 1867, but it had only just begun elsewhere. ‘The spread of the Industrial Revolution abroad’ charts the different regions’ share of world manufacturing. The second industrial revolution was in Western Europe, whose share of world manufacturing increased from 12 per cent in the 18th century to 28 per cent in 1913. Even more dramatic was the rise of the North American share: from less than 1 per cent in the 18th century to a peak value of 47 per cent in 1953. Other regions experiencing industrial revolutions in the 20th century were the former USSR, East Asia, and China.

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Part III: Literary ethnic voices from the north american diaspora and beyond: Interview, essays, short story, poetry

Narrating the Portuguese Diaspora ◽

10.3726/978-1-4539-0777-1/5 ◽

2016 ◽

Keyword(s):

Short Story ◽

North American ◽

The North

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“Our Enemy, Who for Our Religion… Abhorred Us”: The Establishment and Maintenance of 18th-Century Anti-Catholicism in North America

USURJ University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Research Journal ◽

10.32396/usurj.v4i2.327 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Erin Isaac

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

North American ◽

18Th Century ◽

Protestant Reformation ◽

The North ◽

Late 18Th Century ◽

The Face ◽

British North American ◽

The Masses ◽

Protestant Denominations

In the centuries following the Protestant Reformation, religion was a point of contention between Catholic and Protestant nations. These contentions are reflected in literature that was produced during colonial disputes between opposing Catholic and Protestant imperial regimes. Academics including Johnathan Clark have described the significance of religion in times of warfare, in spurring the support of the masses and providing a rallying cry for troops. Scholars that study 18th-century conflicts in North America, including the Seven Years’ War, often do not consider the significance of religious affiliations in this age of empire. Despite this lack of attention, in the years leading up to and including the Seven Years’ War, British North American settlers employed anti-Catholic rhetoric to demonize their French Catholic neighbours to the north. This article considers published letters, sermons, and legislation from the mid- to late-18th century in order to describe how terms including “papist” and “catholic” became synonymous with “French” in the North American context. These texts suggest that the Seven Years’ War was conceived as divinely ordained and justified by British settlers as the defense of Protestantism in North America. Protestant denominations overlooked the differences that had historically divided them in the face of this common French Catholic “enemy.”

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