American Literature Time Periods

Terms in this set (23)

Puritan time period

Puritan period literature

-histories, journals , personal poems, sermons, and diaries
- utilitarian , personal , religious
- influence by Puritan ideals and values

Romanticism time period

Romanticism literature

-a literary and artistic movement
- reaction to the Neoclassicism era
- fancy, imagination, emotion, nature , individuality, and exotica
- frontier life

Transcendentalism time period

Transcendentalism Literature

- an American literary and philosophical movement of the nineteenth century
- originating from New England they believed in intuition and the individual conscience are guides to truth better than logic and reason
- respects the individual spirit and natural world
- divinity is present everywhere

Anti-Transcendentalist

- did not believe that man is good

wrote about the practical aspects of life such as dying and patriotism

-is the presentation of actual life
- the actual as opposed to the imagined and fanciful
- against romanticism, heroism, adventurous , unusual, or unfamiliar

Native Americans

Native Americans

-Oral tradition of songs and stories
-original authors unknown
-written accounts come after colonization
-include creation stories, myths, totems
-archetypes of trickster and conjurer
-focuses on the natural world
-importance of land and place

Puritan Literature Author

Jonathan Edwards

Romanticism Writers

-Cooper , Poe, Thoreau, Emerson, Dickinson, Hawthorne, and Melville

Transcendentalist writers

- Ralph waldo emerson, David Thoreau, Bronson Alcott, W. H. Channing, Margaret Fuller, and Elizabeth Peabody

Anti-transcendentalist writer

- Hawthorne
-Melville

Realism writers

Bret Harte , Sarah Orne Jewett, Mark Twain , Henry James

Colonial time Period

Colonial Literature Period

literature of this period was dominated by the Puritans and their religious influence

colonial period writers

Williams Bradford
Anne Bradstreet
jonathan Edwards
Phillis Wheatley
Olaudah Equiano

Revolutionary time Period

Revolutionary Literary Period

writers focused on explaining and justifying the American Revolution

Representative Authors

Benjamin Franklin
Patrick Henry
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
Abigail Adams

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