american renaissance

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Definition of american renaissance in English English dictionary

or New England Renaissance Period from the 1830s roughly until the end of the American Civil War in which U.S. literature came of age as an expression of a national spirit. The literary scene was dominated by New England Brahmin writers, notably Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell. Also influential were the Transcendentalists (see Transcendentalism), including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, as well as the great imaginative writers Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Edgar Allan Poe

Hyphenation

A·me·ri·can Ren·ais·sance

Turkish pronunciation

ımerıkın renısäns

Pronunciation

/əˈmerəkən ˌrenəˈsäns/ /əˈmɛrəkən ˌrɛnəˈsɑːns/