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Map of Virginia from John Smith's The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles, 1624.
The American Renaissance was a significant period in American literature that began in the 1830s and lasted roughly until the end of the American Civil War in 1865.12
During this era, literature in the United States emerged as a distinct expression of a national spirit, heavily influenced by the Romantic movement and the democratic ideals associated with the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The period was characterized by the work of diverse literary figures, including the New England "Brahmins," the Transcendentalists, and other influential writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Edgar Allan Poe.12