The CLEARVUE/eav History of American Literature: from Civil War Turmoil to Romanticism, Realism, and Naturalism.(Video Recording Review)

(3rd ed.). videocassette. color. 27:30 min. CLEARVUE/eav. 2003. #CL002-02CV. $90.

Gr 7 Up--Period artwork, archival video footage and photos, university professors' comments, reenactments, and printed words accompanied by narration contribute to this introduction to a period of American literature. Covering half a century, the video offers an overview of American literature from transcendentalism to naturalism. Transcendentalism is defined while including comments on the work of Emerson and Thoreau, The antislavery movement is mentioned along with works by Frederick Douglass, Louisa May Alcott. and Harriet Bircher Stowe. Poe, Hawthorne. Melville. Dickinson, and …