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Here's the instructions ,American Literature, Beginnings-1865 Answer each of the following questions in the space of a concise essay arguing a specific claim in response to the question at hand, substantiating your claim(s) with quotations from the texts in question. When compared with authors of the eighteenth century, how do the works of nineteenth-century American writers such as Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne, Longfellow, and Poe present a very different, sometimes darker, vision of American life, including politics and religion, than do authors of earlier works of American literature? How do the personal narratives of writers such as Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass compare with earlier autobiographical writing (e.g .Mary Rowlandson)? How do the mid-nineteenth century political commentaries of writers such as Thoreau and Lincoln compare with those of earlier American writers, such as Paine, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, and Madison? Your answer, while it should address all three of the above questions, should take the form of an essay, featuring an introduction leading to an explicit thesis statement, developed through a series of body paragraphs, and culminating in a conclusion that does not rely upon unnecessary summary. Additionally, your claims ought to be largely your own and should be based on primary, rather than secondary, textual evidence.