American Literary Movements

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    Enlightenment

    EnlightenmentPeople in this movement believed that human resource could be used to ignore ignorance and superstition to build a better world.
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    The Age of Faith

    The Age of FaithPeople in this period claimed that everything happening was for a certain reason; God did it.

  • English Settlement

  • Sir Isaac Newton discovers a cosmic law of gravitation and motion.

  • An Awakening of Heart and Mind

    Jonathon Edwards Edwards viewed God as the transcendent and the Absolut Creator of the world.
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    The Age of Reason

  • Tomas Paine wrote Common Sense

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    Romanticism

  • Edgar Allen Poe wrote The Raven

  • Organized politcal parties and religions

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    Transcendentalist

  • Walt Whitman wrote Franklin Evans

  • Gold Rush

  • Authors started using new poetic forms

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter

  • Henry David Thoreo wrote Walden

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    Realism

  • Character is more important than the plot

  • Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin