Who Were The Main American Authors In The 17th Century

Who is your favorite 19th century author?

I get it down to two authors: one English, and one American. Ican never make a choice between Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson, and I always seem to settle on one book from each of them.For Mark Twain I have to choose Huckleberry Finn. Huck is the seminal road novel, a uniquely American genre. Every American writer who puts his characters on the road, from Steinbeck to Kerouac to Zelazny owes a debt to Mark Twain.For Stevenson, his greatest contribution is the ultimate adventure novel, Treasure Island. Jim Hawkins and his friends resonate all throughout subsequent British and American novels, from The Fellowship of the Ring to some of R.A. Heinlein adventure novels. I doubt there would be a Captain Jack Sparrow without Long John Silver.

When people migrated to North America in 17th century they went there for freedom, how come the present USA is the most conservative western country?

Prior to the present days of political correctness we were taught in UK that USA was founded on the sweepings of Europe. The sweepings were the dirt poor, the exploited and the scapegoats with no education, no vote, no land and no hope for a better life. To leave all your friends and family and never see them again was not taken lightly - you had to be desperate.USA is more "religous" but is the pornography capital of the world, gun crime capital, steeped in drugs that cause thousands of Mexicans to die, wipe out the buffalo, cheat and nearly wipe out the native indians, mobs lynching black americans - police shooting black youths, only country to drop atom bombs on other humans. So is a land of bullshit and self deception on a grandious scale. Due to USA's vast natural wealth, and low cost of land, conservatism can hang on long past its sell-by date as the lifetime fight for money and more money becomes the real religion that can actually be lived up to and used as an empty measure of human success. "No man is an island" can be resisted in USA as long as you have money to paper over the cracks when you need help or live in gated communities to keep America out.Countries with less natural wealth and packed into cities have to learn to live together, pay their share, help each other and social democracy breaks out. Even the UK Conservative party is far to the left of Bernie Sanders .

Can someone offer a list of intellectual authors who have often delved into philosophy?

well most philosophers are authors as in they generally secure their careers with writing works of philosophy but I suppose you mean people that worked mainly in literature when you say authors well most of the 19th century transcendental American authors can be counted as philosophers people such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Louisa May Alcott, and Walt Whitman where all heavily influenced by 18th century German idealism from philosophers such as Immanuel Kant as well as the 17th century Lutheran Pietism movement. Such authors also went on to influence the 20th century civil rights movements on a global scale especially people such as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. as well as helped develop the Unitarian Universalist Church in America.

What five authors would historical French literature most suffer to lose?

I take it the question means 'which are the authors whose absence would have been most serious?', in the sense that we couldn't imagine later writers without them. It is hard to imagine the nineteenth-century novel without Balzac, for instance, whether or not he is one's favourite novelist, because of the way in which he shows his characters caught up in the workings of society. This certainly inspired later novelists. If you try to consider the whole timespan of French literature since the Renaissance from this point of view, you would have to include Montaigne, whose influence on all areas of literature has been huge; probably also Racine and Mme de Lafayette, because of the influence on later writers of their depictions of human emotion, one of the great strengths of the French novel; Balzac, for the reason given above; and Baudelaire, in a sense one of the first modern poets. Proust is in some ways the most comprehensive of French novelists, but his writing is indebted to the work of all of these. But a medievalist could make a case for the troubadours and for Chrétien de Troyes.

What are some good examples of empathy in 19th Century American literature?

Hawthorne certainly thought he was generating empathy for the lead character in "The Scarlet Letter" by portraying her unmerited sufferring.Twain repeatedly shows empathy between Jim and Huck in "Huckleberry Finn".Harriett B. Stowe's work is one long (if maudlin) empathy novel."Little Women" has scene after scene of empathy.Ahab had a twisted form of empathy for the whale in "Moby Dick".It probably is pretty hard to write a novel without empathy in character or writer or both.