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Declaration of Independence
United States is free from Britain! -
Romanticism
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Transscendentalism
1830s-1840s, movement that encouraged individualism, self-divinity and becoming in touch with nature -
Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essay written that was key in the Trascendentalist movement. -
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Chilling poem. -
Civil Disobedience by Henry James Thoreau
Key aspect of Transcendentalist movement. -
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Transcendentalist poem -
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
Influential American poem. -
American Realism
1865-1910. Literary movements really began to kick off. -
Impressionism
1870s-1880s. "common, ordinary subject matter; the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience" -
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Adventure story about a boy and his friend who just so happens to be a runaway slave. And there are no sharks the picture was just cool. -
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Filthy description of the meat industries of the Industrial-Progressive Eras that lead to many meat inspection and reform acts -
Modernism
1910s-1940s, key authors: e.e. cummings, Sharon Olds -
Start of WW1
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End of WW1
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Dadaism
When artists began to express their questioning of life as they knew it through their artwork -
The Harlem Renaissance
1920s-1930s. Key influences: Hubert Harrison, Claude McKay -
The Hundred Days
The first hundred days of Woodrow Wilson's first term in office were dedicated to reform and helping the depression-stricken America back to its feet once more. -
Art Deco Era
1920s-1930s. Began in Paris, flourished during the beginning of WW2 -
19th Ammendment
Women can finally vote in America. Key influences: Alice Paul, Margaret Sanger -
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Set in the Rooaring 20's, this is a scandal abou sex, drinking and high society. -
Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
My birthday!!!!!! -
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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Start of WW2
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End of WW2
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
Dictatorship and oppression. Kind of like the Holocaust. -
Post-Modernism
Follow-up to modernism. -
The Beat Generation
Key influences: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg -
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The young Holden Caulfield goes on a search for himself in the cold New York winter. -
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
These kids go crazy on some island. -
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A girl tries to solve the mistery of Boo Radley. -
Anti-Realism
"There is no fact of the matter as to whether or not there are unobservable other minds" -
Minimalism
1960s-1970s. "set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts"
