TXMary2 Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 I looked at the Book in Time website and didn't find what I needed. Can you give me some high school level books that take place in the 1790-1820 time frame? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie in MN Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Just curious why you have that limited 30-year timeframe. Are you doing one book every 30 years? Are you doing a course on those years in particular? Just wondering, not any help here, since I can't date many books that precisely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usetoschool Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 (edited) http://www.socsdteachers.org/tzenglish/literature_timeline.htm There are only a few books and authors listed but it might have some ideas. Edited February 24, 2012 by jcooperetc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 (edited) A few questions to help understand your needs: - Are you looking for works that are SET in that time frame? Or were WRITTEN in that time frame? Or either? - Are you looking for Classics -- The Great Books? Or Historical Fiction? Or both? - Are you looking for American Literature, British Literature -- or other specific locale? Or anywhere? CLASSICS (written in your time frame) 1790s - poetry -- by William Blake, Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth - essays -- by Thomas Paine 1800s - Tales from Shakespeare -- by Charles & Mary Lamb 1810s - poetry -- by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, John Keats - Sense & Sensibility; Mansfield Park; Emma; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion -- by Jane Austen - Grimm's Fairy Tales - Ivanhoe; Rob Roy -- by Sir Walter Scott - Frankenstein -- by Mary Shelley 1820s - poem: "A Visit From St. Nicholas" -- by Clement Moore - poetry -- by Robert Burns; John Keats; Percy Bysshe Shelley - drama -- "Boris Godunov" -- by Alexander Pushkin - Last of the Mohicans -- by James Fenimore Cooper CLASSICS (set in your time frame) - Rip Van Winkle (set 1790s) -- Washington Irving - Legend of Sleep Hollow (set 1790s) -- Washington Irving - David Copperfield (first 10 years of his life, set in 1820-1830) -- Charles Dickins - Tale of Two Cities (last section of the book set during French Revolution, 1789-1799) -- Charles Dickens - Scarlet Pimpernel (set during French Revolution) -- by Baroness Orczy - Les Miserables (setting is 1815-1832) -- by Victor Hugo - The Count of Monte Cristo (set in early 1800s) -- by Alexander Dumas HISTORICAL FICTION - Horatio Hornblower (1790s-1800s) -- by C.S. Forester - Betsey and the Emperor (Napoleon/early 1800s) -- by Rabin - In Search of Honor (French Revolution) -- by Donnalynn Hess - In the Reign of Terror (set in 1793/French Revolution) -- by GA Henty - Indian Captive: Story of Mary Jemison (she lived 1743-1833) -- historical fiction of her life -- by Lois Lenski - Streams to the River, River to the Sea (O'Dell) -- historical fiction of Lewis & Clark expedition, 1803 - Clear for Action! (sea adventure tale set in War of 1812) -- Stephen Meander Edited February 23, 2012 by Lori D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie Q Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Jane Austen's books were written during that time and seem to take place at the time they were written, as far as I can tell. Tolstoy's War and Peace takes place during that time, although it was written in a later period. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXMary2 Posted February 23, 2012 Author Share Posted February 23, 2012 Sorry, I was pretty vague wasn't I? I am looking for American Literature whose setting is that time period. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Sorry, I was pretty vague wasn't I? I am looking for American Literature whose setting is that time period. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was one we did this year. Wonderful imagery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Sorry, I was pretty vague wasn't I? I am looking for American Literature whose setting is that time period. Wow, there is not much Classic American Literature in that time period. Below is what I could come up with. You may need to widen your time frame upwards to include the 1850s, which is when American Literature really takes off. Best of luck, whatever you decide. Warmly, Lori D. 1760s-1780s - poetry -- by Phyllis Wheatley - autobiography -- Benjamin Franklin - non-fiction essays -- Common Sense (and others) -- by Thomas Paine 1790s - essays -- by Thomas Paine - Rip Van Winkle (set in 1780s or 1790s, written in 1820) -- Washington Irving - Legend of Sleep Hollow (set in 1780s or 1790s, written in 1820) --- Washington Irving - Billy Budd (short story set in 1797, written in 1850s) -- by Herman Melville - The Cask of Amontillado (short story, some of which is set in 1790s, written in 1840s) -- by Edgar Allen Poe 1800s 1810s - poetry -- by William Cullen Bryant 1820s - poem: "A Visit From St. Nicholas" -- by Clement Moore - The Deerslayer (set in 1744; written in 1820s) -- James Fenimore Cooper - Last of the Mohicans (set in 1757; written in 1820s) -- James Fenimore Cooper 1830s - Tanglewood Tales -- short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne - Adventures of Tom Sawyer (set somewhere in 1830s-50s) -- by Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (set in 1830s-50s) -- by Mark Twain - Fall of the House of Usher -- by Edgar Allen Poe 1840s - "Rappaccini's Daughter" (short story set in medieval Italy, written in 1840s) -- by Nathaniel Hawthorne - short stories by Edgar Allen Poe (The Gold Bug; The Black Cat; The Tell-Tale Heart; etc.) - "The Raven" (poem) -- by Edgar Allen Poe - autobiography: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave -- by Frederick Douglass - poetry -- by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1850s - Uncle Tom's Cabin -- by Harriet BEecher Stowe - Walden (essays/journal) -- Henry David Thoreau - Moby Dick -- by Herman Melville - "Bartleby the Scrivner" (short story) - The House of Seven Gables -- Nathaniel Hawthorne - poetry by Walt Whitman HISTORICAL FICTION - Indian Captive: Story of Mary Jemison (she lived 1743-1833) -- historical fiction of her life -- by Lois Lenski - Streams to the River, River to the Sea (O'Dell) -- historical fiction of Lewis & Clark expedition, 1803 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGHEALTHYMOM Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 I would also suggest looking in TWTM, TOG Bookshelf Central, and Classical Conversations for suggestions. Ambleside online also may have a list. Good luck!:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXMary2 Posted February 25, 2012 Author Share Posted February 25, 2012 Thanks. I figured since I couldn't find much that my choices were limited. We do use TOG, but we have either already read the selections or listened on audio. Maybe we should just move on as I am really excited about the 1850's and onward and I am not sure we will ever read all that is on my list! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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