id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5054 American Renaissance (literature) - Wikipedia .html text/html 1172 148 61 Often considered a movement centered in New England, the American Renaissance was inspired in part by a new focus on humanism as a way to move from Calvinism.[5] Literary nationalists at this time were calling for a movement that would develop a unique American literary style to distinguish American literature from British literature.[1] Walter Channing in a November 1815 issue of the North American Review called for American authors to form "a literature of our own," which was amplified by John Neal and other literary critics.[6][7] Following this call, there was a wave of literary nationalism in America for much of the 1820s that saw writers such as Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, and James Fenimore Cooper rise to importance in American literature. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5054.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5054.txt