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The Enlightenment
Also called the "Age of Reason", viewed humanity as needing to be greatly involved with nature and God -
http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/events-timelines/14-american-history-timeline.htm
Most of this is histories, journals, personal poems, sermons, and diaries. Most of this literature is either utilitarian, very personal, or religious. -
Henry Hudson explores North eastern North America including the Hudson River
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http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/events-timelines/14-american-history-timeline.htm
There is a lack of emphasis and dependence on the Bible and more use of common sense (logic) and science. -
Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America
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http://staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm
Romanticism was a literary and artistic movement of the nineteenth century that arose in reaction against eighteenth-century Neoclassicism and placed a premium on fancy, imagination, emotion, nature, individuality, and exotica. -
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http://staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm
an American literary and philosophical movement of the nineteenth century. 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. -
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap3/poe.html
The Raven and Other Poems -
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http://www.online-literature.com/hawthorne/
The Scarlet Letter -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap3/stowe.html -
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The Naturalists tended to view people as hapless victims of immutable natural laws.
http://staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm -
Realism is the presentation in art of the details of actual life.
http://staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm -
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap5/twain.html -
published in 1890
Poems by Emily Dickinson
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/dickinson.html -
The Call of the Wild
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap6/london.html -
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An age of disillusionment and confusion
http://staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm -
An age of disillusionment and confusion
http://staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm -
The Enormous Room
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/cummings.html -
The Great Gatsby
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/fitzgerald.html -
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The Ways of White Folks
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/hughes.html -
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The catcher in the rye
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/salinger.html -