American Literary Movements

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    Englighment

    Englightment was a movememt in which ideas and activities took palce in the eighteenth century in Western Europe, England, and the American colonies.
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    Age of Faith

    Purtin times sytle of writing
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    The Age of Reason

    new age time not as acssotied with the church
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    Romanticism

    Romanticism
    large network of sometimes competing philosophies, agendas, and points of interest.

  • Mayor American Event: Romanticism

    Library of Congress
    In 1800 The Library of Congress is founded

  • New Poetic Forms

  • The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

    Mayor Writing
    was Edgar Allen Poe's only completed novel
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    The Transcendetalists

    Transcendetalists
    In the early to mid-nineteenth century, a philosophical movement in which knowledge could be gain thought the intuition and contemplation of the internal spirit.

  • "The Transcendentalist"

    Mayor Writing by Author
    Is one of Ralp Waldo Emerson mayor writings

  • Mayor American Event: The Trancendentalists

    Event Mexican-American War
    Mexican-American War begins and ends in 1848

  • Moby Dick

    [Mayor Writing ](http:// www.online-literature.com/melville/)
    was a mayor writing by Herman Melville
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    Realism

    Realisma tendencey to represent things as they really are

  • Mayor American Event: Realism

    Lincoln assassination
    Abraham Lincoln assassinated
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    Naturalism

    NaturalismTo explain the unexplainable

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    [Mayor Writng: Mark Twain](http:// www.online-literature.com/twain/)

  • Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

    Mayor Writing Frederick Douglass
    A mayor writing work by Frederick Douglass

  • The God of His Fathers

    Mayor Writng: Jack London
    was a mayor writing by Jack London

  • Mayor American Event: Naturlism

    Ford Motor Co.
    Ford Motor Company formed
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    Modernism

    Modernism
    sudden and unexpected breaks with traditional ways of viewing and interacting with the world.

  • This Side Of Paradise

    [Mayor Writing By Author](http:///www.online-literature.com/fitzgerald/)
    A Mayor writing by F.Scott Fitzgerald

  • Mayor American Event: Modernism

    Event:Radio Broadcast
    First radio broadcast in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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    The Harlem Renaissance

    Halem Renaissance
    A period were newly freed black people explored thier identities and to help better educate themselfs

  • The Waste Land

    A Mayor writing by T. S. Eliot

  • Jonah’s Gourd Vine

    Jonah’s Gourd Vine
    Mayor Writing:Zora Neale Hurston
    A mayor writng by Zora Neale Hurston

  • Mayor American Event: Halem Renaissance

    Mayor American Event: Halem Renaissance
    Social Security Act
    The Social Security Act passed
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    Contemporary Literature