The Luck Of Roaring Camp Romanticism

From the Puritan writers of the 17th century to the post-Civil War period of American Realism and Naturalism, American culture and writing has evolved dramatically. The shift of style and semantics in the literary works of Anne Bradstreet to Bret Harte directly follows the transformation of the empowerment of women. The continuously changing and developing roles of women are evident in historical events that left an everlasting impression on the developing literature of American history. Although

Highest art – an endeavour beyond finite human possibility The American Romanticism stretched from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the Civil War was extremely influential, and best represented by the New England poets and novelists Both imitative and independent One of the most important periods in the history of American literature, usually called the Renaissance of American literature Early Romanticism Henry Wadsworth Longfellow James Russell Lowell John Greenleaf Whittier

http://www.terry.uga.edu/~dawndba/4500compulsoryhet.htm Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence 
 Adrienne Rich   Adrienne Rich 's essay constitutes a powerful challenge to some of our least examined sexual assumptions. Rich turns all the familiar arguments on their heads: If the first erotic bond is to the mother, she asks, could not the "natural" sexual orientation of both men and women be toward women? Rich 's radical questioning has been a major intellectual force