Major American Literary Eras
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Native Americans (1400-1600) | Communicated Orally |
| Native Americans (1400-1600) | Included myths and legends |
| Native Americans (1400-1600) | Focus on nature |
| Native Americans (1400-1600) | Creation Stories |
| The Enlightenment (1607-1800) | Age of Faith (Puritans/Religion) |
| The Enlightenment (1607-1800) | Age of Reason (Patriots/Politics) |
| Age of Faith (1607-1750) | Puritans and Pilgrims |
| Age of Faith (1607-1750) | Genres/Style: ●Sermons ●Plain style ●Instructive |
| Age of Faith (1607-1750) | Some Major Writers: ●Anne Bradstreet ●John Smith |
| Age of Reason (1750-1800) | Political context (time of American Revolution) |
| Age of Reason (1750-1800) | Use of reason over faith alone |
| Age of Reason (1750-1800) | Genres/style: ●Political pamphlets, speeches, essays, documents |
| Age of Reason (1750-1800) | Major Writers: ●Ben Franklin ● Thomas Jefferson ●Thomas Paine |
| Romanticism (1800-1855) | Time of Industrial Revolution |
| Romanticism (1800-1855) | Genres/style: ●Short stories, novels, poetry ●Imagination valued over reason; intuition valued over fact |
| Romanticism (1800-1855) | Major Writers: ●Nathaniel Hawthorne ●Washington Irving ●Edgar Allan Poe |
| Transcendentalism (1840-1855) | Stressed individualism, self-reliance, intuition, and connection with nature |
| Transcendentalism (1840-1855) | Father of Transcendentalism= Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Transcendentalism (1840-1855) | Other major writer=Henry David Thoreau |
| Realism (1865-1915) | Civil War era |
| Realism (1865-1915) | Genres/style: ●Novels, short stories ●Focus on lives of ordinary people; "tell it like it is" ● Nature is powerful, and beyond man's control |
| Realism (1865-1915) | Major Writers: ●Frederick Douglass ●Harriet Beecher Stowe ●Mark Twain ●Jack London |
| Modernism (1915-1945) | Time of World War I and overwhelming advances in technology |
| Modernism (1915-1945) | Genres/style: ●Experimental styles ●Dominant mood = alienation & disconnection |
| Modernism (1915-1945) | Major writers: ●Ernest Hemingway ●William Faulkner ●John Steinbeck |
| Contemporary (1945-present) | Time of Post WWII prosperity; media saturated culture |
| Contemporary (1945-present) | Genres/style: ●Lines of reality blurred ●concern with individual in isolation ●ethnic and women writers emerge |
| Contemporary (1945-present) | Major Writers: ●Allen Ginsberg, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia Plath, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, Truman Capote... |
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