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American Lit

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    Puritanism and Rationalism

    On Puritanism they wrote about religious matters. On Rationalism they wrote about political crisis matters. These are intertwinned, not only because they happened around the same period but because they also "opposed" each other. Rationalism happened during the "Enlightment Era" which was when the world started questioning religion and starting looking for more reasonable or "rationable" anwsers. This is what mostly began science, math, etc.
  • Anne Bradstreet

    Anne Bradstreet

    Wrote "To My Dear and Loving Husband". It was a love poem she created for her husband, showing her appreciation for him and how much they love each other
  • Jonathan Edwards

    Jonathan Edwards

    Wrote, "Sinners in Hands of an Angry God"
  • Patrick Henry

    Patrick Henry

    Speech to Virginia Convention. He helped convince the Virginia Convention to join the American Revolution.
  • Thomass Jefferson

    He wrote the Declaration of Independence. Along with other authors. This document created by Thomas Jefferson and signed by many others gave us the freedom that we have today
  • Thomas Paine

    Thomas Paine

    Wrote "The American Crisis"
  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    Speech in the convention
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    Romanticism

    Romanticsm arose in reaction to the wars of politics are religion going on at the time. Romantacism was a way for people to express peace and hope at a harsh time.
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Created "Nature; Self-Reliance. Believed that God is in the nature outside, that nature was God's canvas and that is how you could connect to him
  • Edgar Allan Poe

    Edgar Allan Poe

    Created "The Raven". He was a very dark poetic writer. Most say he had a very hard and depressing life.
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Created "The Scarlet Letter"
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    Regionalism, Realism, and Naturalism

    All wrote about the aspects of life that they saw in their daily lives or going on around them.
  • Herman Melville

    Herman Melville

    Created "Moby Dick".
  • Henry David Thoreau

    Henry David Thoreau

    Created "Walden".
  • Walt Whitman

    Walt Whitman

    Romantic poet, created the book Leaves of Grass.
  • Mark Twain

    Mark Twain

    Wrote "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
  • Emily Dickinson

    Emily Dickinson

    Poet, created the Poetry Collection
  • Stephen Crane

    Stephen Crane

    Wrote : The Red Badge of Courage"
  • Theodore Dreiser

    Theodore Dreiser

    Wrote " Sister Carrie"
  • Jack london

    Jack london

    wrote call of the wild
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    Modernism (Symbolism)

    War and change was in this time. the stock market crashed. world war 2 had ended. a new age of writing had came to life. explaining the war and outcomes of it. the Harlem renaissance was also born into this time period
  • Theodore Dreiser

    Theodore Dreiser

    Wrote "The Titan"
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    Harlem Renaissance

    ''The New Negro Age'' as some call it. it was when african americans expressed their true feelings through writing and art. the things they experienced and the new age of harlem is written through their writing.
  • Willa Cather

    Willa Cather

    created A wagner mantinee
  • William Fauklkner

    William Fauklkner

    wrote as i lay dying
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    Post Modernism

    a calm down period after the war. Advancements in technology. Getting close to the modern age
  • Harper Lee

    Harper Lee

    Wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird"