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The age is distinguished by an emphasis upon liberty, democracy, republicanism and religious tolerance – culminating in the drafting of the United States Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Attempts to reconcile science and religion resulted in a rejection of prophecy, miracle and revealed religion.
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Was a movement that started in the second half of the 18th century in Europe. It was a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature.
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Transcendentalism happened in the 1830s-1840s and the main founders were Emerson and Thoreau. They believed you must not conform to an unjust society and you must be yourself. They also believed nature was very important and you must live in simplicity.
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(1865-1915) - Realism is the presentation in art of the details of actual life. Realism was also a literary movement that began during the nineteenth century and stressed the actual as opposed to the imagined or the fanciful
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Was influenced majorly by World War 1 and modernist authors asked such questions as "Why are we here", and "who decides what is art". Notable authors: E.e Cummings (1894-1962), Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), Walt Whitman (1819-1892).
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The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s. Notable authors: Langston Hughes (1902-1967), Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), Claude Mckay(1889-1949).
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Major authors: Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), William S. Burroughs (1914-1997). Major beat generation Works: On the Road, Howl, Naked Lunch
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