actual readers” (1986: 813). For instance, “mothers of America” in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Another way is to “include large numbers of more specifically defined groups in passages of direct address”
authors have chosen to criticize and defy the established order, conventions and values of their time through their stories. A great example of the influence written works can have in society is Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, published in 1852, on a time of tension between northern and southern American states regarding slavery. More specifically, the book was written as a reaction to the infamous Fugitive Slave Law that required that all citizens returned any runaway
When she first escaped, she faced many hardships. Soon, she decided to devote her life to the abolition of slavery. There is a book called The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave. “This inspiring memoir, first published in 1850, recounts the struggles of a distinguished African-American abolitionist and champion of women's rights” (Narrative of Sojourner Truth). “Truth met a number of leading abolitionists at Northampton, including William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass and David
In the beginning of it’s depute in the New England Magazine in 1891, The Yellow Wallpaper has been the most challenged and most studied writings of literature. Literary critics have viewed this short story in many other perceptions counting the feminist and anti-feminist perception, psychological, and even the perception viewing The Yellow Wallpaper as science-fiction writing. Many predictors have even declared that the work’s speaker is an image of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her political outlooks
INTRODUCTION AMERICAN LITERATURE American literature is the literature written or produced in the area of the United States and its preceding colonies. During its early history America was a series of British colonies on the eastern coast of the present day United States. Therefore it is literary tradition of English literature. However, unique American characteristics and the breadth of its production usually now cause it to be considered a separate path and tradition. The New England colonies