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Enlightenment
This period was when logic and reason occured in politics. Many of these writings were docements, speeches and letters -
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Age of Faith
This movement was the works of british colonists settling in America. Most of their writings were about the new world and inspirational religious books. -
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Johathan Edwards
Sinners in the hands of an Angry God -
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Age of Reason
This movement occured after the mediaval ages of religion, msyticism and superstition were looked down upon and mans pursuit of knowledge of the universe and how he was veiwed began -
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Age of Reason
Experiments and Observations on Electricity -
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Romanticism
Romanticism was the movement when Americans were exploring fantasy, individuality, emotion, nature. -
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Romanticism: Edgar Allen Poe
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New Poetic Form: Walt Whitman
Oh Captain My Captain. -
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Transcendentalists
Nineteenth century movement that explored the individual spirit in the natural world using personal philosophy -
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Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature and Other Adressess -
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Realism
Much like the age of reason many of the writers used actual logic of how thing really are instead of supporting fantasy. -
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Naturalism
The Naturalists tended to view people as hapless victims of immutable natural laws. -
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Modernism
Age of disillusionment and confusion due to authors outlooks on what was happening in America during this period. -
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Harlem Renaissance
Period when African-American artistic creativity occured during the 1920's in New York. -
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Contemporary
Not a clear form of philosophy.