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''Kavanagh'' is a novel by the American poet
''ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)'', December 2006 and it was published in 1849. ''Kavanagh'' is the story of a country romance. Besides a character named Kavanagh, among its characters is a school teacher named Mr. Churchill, who has always planned to write a romance, but whose procrastination never allows him to start, until late in life he resigns himself to his "destiny". Longfellow also used the novel to argue against the view, in the book propounded by a character based on Cornelius Mathews, that American literature must be entirely devoid of European influences and be exclusively national. Instead, Longfellow felt that American literature could and should be universalist, with its unique North American influences. He saw the use of European models not as imitation but as a "continuation" that Americans could be proud of. Of the novel, Robert L. Gale writes in ''A Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Companion'' that ''Kavanagh'' was also a precursor of local color writing, and "it depicts what is probably the first lesbian relationship in American fiction".
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''Kavanagh'' is a novel by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include " Paul Revere's Ride", '' The Song of Hiawatha'', and ''Evangeline''. He was the first American to completely tran ...
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Longfellow began writing the story in 1847Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, United States national literature, and the canonical erasure of material nature.''ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)'', December 2006 and it was published in 1849. ''Kavanagh'' is the story of a country romance. Besides a character named Kavanagh, among its characters is a school teacher named Mr. Churchill, who has always planned to write a romance, but whose procrastination never allows him to start, until late in life he resigns himself to his "destiny". Longfellow also used the novel to argue against the view, in the book propounded by a character based on Cornelius Mathews, that American literature must be entirely devoid of European influences and be exclusively national. Instead, Longfellow felt that American literature could and should be universalist, with its unique North American influences. He saw the use of European models not as imitation but as a "continuation" that Americans could be proud of. Of the novel, Robert L. Gale writes in ''A Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Companion'' that ''Kavanagh'' was also a precursor of local color writing, and "it depicts what is probably the first lesbian relationship in American fiction".
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Etext
at the University of Virginia Library
Scanned book
at Google Books 1849 American novels Novels by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow {{1840s-romance-novel-stub