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Puritanism focused on the importance of worshiping God and of spirtitual dangers that were faced on Earth. Writing during this time period varied widely from metaphysicaal poetry to homely journals and religious history. During this time period many colonistt were settling in the New World. Due to intolerant religious colonies other colonies were established from the Christianity Roformation and leading to the toleration act.
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Published sometime in the year of 1650
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Author: Jonathan Edwards
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In the Rationalism literary period authors empahsized rationality over tradition, representative government instead of nobelity, and more scientfic reasoning rather than religious views. Writers based their work on justice, liberty, and equality as natural rights of man. The American Revolution against Britain ocurred during this time period and people expressed through writings about their freedom and independence.
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Author: Patrick Henry
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Author: Thomas Jefferson
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Author: Thomas Paine
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Author: Benjamin Franklin
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In this literary movement there were changes in music, painting, and literature. Primacy of imagination was a belief in rationalism. Person freedom, spontaniety, and self-expression were themes focused on. Supporting ideals of democracy and republicanism were important ideas. Romantists believed in human equality. Writers favored "natural" socities over repressive artificial civilization.
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Publised in 1824
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Published sometime during 1836
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Author: Edgar Allen Poe
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Published in the year of 1850
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne -
Published in 1851
Author: Herman Melville -
Published during 1854
Author: Henry David Thoreau -
Published in 1855
Author: Walt Whitman -
Realism rejects romanticism, and describes things exactly as they are perceived. The focus is usually on an average citizen.
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It's a characteristic of Realism and the authors of Regionalistic books typically have the settings of their books in the same general area.
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Published in 1880
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By Mark Twain
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A literary period that focused on cruelty of the natural world and usually ends in despair.
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Published after her death in 1890
Author: Emily Dickinson -
By Stephan Crane
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By Kate Chapin
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By Jack London
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By Willa Cather
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By Edith Wharton
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WWI, The Depression, and the Holocaust happened uring this time period. These events affected how writers thought about themselves and the world. Modernism gave people new ways to be delighted
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By Robert Frost
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During this time period blacks were still treated unfairly and literature reflected that. The Harlem Renaissance gave Americans a language with which to begin a discussion about racism. This ws the first time that African American artists were taken seriously by the culture at large.
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by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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By William Faulkner
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By Harper Lee
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by Zora Neale Hurston
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By John Steinbeck
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By Ernest Hemingway
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By Eudora Welty
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by Richard Wright
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by Ernest Hemingway
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Postmodernism was right after WWll so literature talked about WWll. Some literature dealt with grief and shock while some treated the war with tragic comedy.
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by Ralph Ellison
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By Flannery O'Connor
