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Most of this is histories, journals, personal poems, sermons, and diaries. Most of this literature is utilitarian, very personal, or religious. We call it Puritan because the majority of the writers during this period were strongly influenced by Puritan ideals and values. Jonathan Edwards continues to be recognized from this period.
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Native Lit; Author Christipher Columbus
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Native American Lit; Author unknown
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Native Lit; Author Unknown
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Native Lit; Author Unknown
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The dates for this period are very unclear because we have absolutely no idea when they started. Much of the literature of this period was myths, and, of course, the Native Americans still write today. Most of what our we call Native American myths were written long before Europeans settled in North America.
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Native Lit; Author Dekanawidah
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Puritan Lit; Author John Smith
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Puritan Lit; William Bradford
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Puritan Lit; Anne Bradstreet
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Puritan Lit; author Edward Taylor
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Enlightenment; Benjamin Franklin
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Puritan Lit; Johathan Edwards
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Called the Enlightenment period due to the influence of science and logic, this period is marked in US literature by political writings. Genres included political documents, speeches, and letters. Benjamin Franklin is typical of this period. There is a lack of emphasis and dependence on the Bible and more use of logic and science. There was not a divorce from the Bible but an adding to, or expanding of the truths found there.
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Enlightenment; Author Phillis Wheatley
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Enlightenment; Phillis Whetley
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Enlightenment; Patrick Henry
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Enlightenment; Thomas Paine
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Enlightenment; author Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur
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The Transcendentalists, who were based in New England, believed that intuition and the individual conscience “transcend” experience and thus are better guides to truth than are the senses and logical reason. Influenced by Romanticism, the Transcendentalists respected the individual spirit and the natural world, believing that divinity was present everywhere, in nature and in each person. The Transcendentalists included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Bronson Alcott and W.H. Channing.
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Romanticism was a literary movement century that arose in reaction against Neoclassicism and valued fancy, imagination, emotion, nature, and individuality. There was a movement from religious documents to entertaining ones. Purely American topics were introduced. Romantic elements can be found in the works of American writers such as Cooper, Poe, Thoreau, Emerson, Dickinson, Hawthorne, and Melville. Romanticism is particularly evident in the works of the New England Transcendetalists.
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Romanticism; Washington Irving
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Romanticism; Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Transcendentalsim; Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Transcendentalism; Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Edgar Allen Poe; romanticism
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Ralph Waldo Emerson; Transcendentalsim
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Transcendentalism; Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Romantisism; Edgar Allen Poe
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Transcendentalism; Henry David Thoreau
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Puritan Lit; Author Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hester Pryne commits a sin and has an illegitimate daughter named Pearl. This book focuses on the guilt and shame of Hester and other main charachters in this book -
Romanticism; Herman Mellvile
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Realism/Naturalism; Fredrick Douglass
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Transcendentalism; Henry David Thoreau
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Transcendentalsim; Emily Dickinson
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Transcendentalsim; Walt Whitman
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Transcendentalism; Walt Whitman
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Transcendentalism; Walt Whitman
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Realism/Naturalism; Olaudah Equano
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Emily Dickinson; Transcendentalism
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Realism/Naturalism; Robert E. Lee
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Realism/Naturalism; Mary Chesnut
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Realism/Naturalism Stonewall Jackson
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Transcendentalsim; Emily Dickenson
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Transcendentalism; Emily Dickinson
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Realism/Naturalism; Abraham Lincoln
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Realism/Naturalism; Reverend Henry M. Turner
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Realism/Naturalism; Cooper and Foster
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Realism/Naturalism; Warren Lee Goss
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Realism/Naturalism; Randolph McKim
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Realism/Naturalism; Abraham Lincoln
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Transcendentalism; Emily DIckinson
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Regionalism; Mark Twain
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The Realists tried to write truthfully and objectively about ordinary characters in ordinary situations. They reacted against Romanticism, rejecting heroic, adventurous, unusual, or unfamiliar subjects. The Realists, in turn, were followed by the Naturalists, who traced the effects of heredity and environment on people helpless to change their situations. American realism is evident in the writings of major figures such as Mark Twain.
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Realism/Naturalism; Sojourner Truth
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Regionalism; Bret harte
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Regionalism in literature is the tendency among certain authors to write about specific geographical areas. Regional writers like Willa Cather and William Faulkner, present the distinct culture of an area, including its speech, customs, beliefs, and history. Regionalists usually go beyond mere presentation of cultural idiosyncrasies and attempt, instead, a sophisticated sociological or an thropological treatment of the culture of a region.
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Transcendenatalism; Emily Dickinson
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Regionalism; Cheif Joseph
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Transcendentalism; Emily Dickinson
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Regionalism; MArk Twain
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Transcendtalism; Emily Dickinson
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Transcendentalism; Walt Whitman
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Imagism
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Imagism; Kate Chopin
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Realism/Naturalism; Stephen Crane
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Regionalism; Jack London
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Transcendentalism; Walt Whitman
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Transcedentalism; Walt Whitman
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Realism/Naturalism; spiritual
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Led by Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell, the Imagist poets rejected nineteenth-century poetic forms and language. Instead, they wrote short poems that used ordinary language and free verse to create sharp, exact, concentrated pictures.
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Imagism; Paul Lawrence Dunbar
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Contemporary; Willa Cather
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Imagism; Paul Lawrence Dunbar
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Realism/Naturalism; Unknown
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An age of disillusionment and confusion—just look at what was happening in history in the US during these dates—this period brought us perhaps our best writers. The authors during this period raised all the great questions of life…but offered no answers. Faulkner, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Frost are all examples.
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Regionalism; Sherwood Anderson
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contemporary; Robert Frost
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Part of the Modern Age, The Harlem Renaissance, which occurred during the 1920’s, was a time of African American artistic creativity centered in Harlem, in New York City. Writers of the Harlem Renaissance include Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, and Arna Bontemps.
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Modern Age; Ernest Hemingway
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regionalism; William Faulkner
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Harlem Renaissance; Eudora Welty
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Randall Jerrel; modern age
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great stuff, but not a clear philosophy.
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John Hersey; Modern Age
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Modern Age; Randall Jarrell
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Post modernism; George Orwell
A man lives in a socialist society that tries to control his every move. He struggles with what love, freedom of thought and other similar ideas mean in this society. -
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Regionalism; Ernest Hemmingway
A man spends three days attempting to catch a fish without a reliable body or food -
Post modernism; Ray Bradbury
A man lives in a futuristic society where no books are allowed and he has to try to deal with that fact -
Modernism; Harper Lee
A nine year old girl watches racial segregation and a rape case. This book was from her perspective to show the stupidity of it all. -
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Contemporary; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Contemporary; S.E. Hinton
A group of boys deal with a cultural bias because they are poor. A few of the characheters die as a result -
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contemporary; John Updike
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Contemporary; Simon Ortiz
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Colleen McElroy; contemporary
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Lorna Dee Cervantes; Contemporary
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Garrett Hongo; Contemporary
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Contemporary; Anna Quindlen
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Contemporary; Tim O'Brien
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Contemporary; Martin Espada
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contemporary; Amy Tan
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Yusef Komunyakaa; contemporary
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