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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.
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The Age of Faith was the start of American Literature. From 1607-1750 those who would be come known as the first Americans, were mostly comprised of British Colonist who immigrated to America for religious or economical reasons.
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A major event was the Declaration of Independence being made and signed and approved.
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Romanticism was a literary and artistic movement of the nineteenth century that made a big impact on society.
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Transcendentalism was the American literary and philosophical movement of the nineteenth century which was based on people that intuition and the individual conscience “transcend” experience.
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Naturalism was a literary movement with writers at the end of the 19th century.
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Presentation in art of the details of actual life & the literary movement that began in the 19th century and became real instead as being fake.
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