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Period: 1 CE to
Foundations
Native American (beginning of time to 1600)
-Oral and historical literature
Puritan/Colonial Period (1600-1750)
- A lot of the writings were about religion and it was written in a plain style
Rationalism (Revolutionary/ Age of Reason) (1750-1800)
-a wide range of subjects: politics, nature, philosophy, and science
Authors-
Wiliam Bradford- Of Plymouth Plantation
Jonathan Edwards- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Ben Franklin- Autobiography sayings of Poor Richard -
Period: to
Romanticism
American Renaissance/ Transcendentalism (1840-1860)
- focuses on God, nature, and the human soul
Authors-
Washing Irving- Rip Van Winkle
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- The Tide Rises the Tide Falls
Edgar Allan Poe- The Raven, Annabelle Lee, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Case of Amontillado, The Pit and the Pendulum
Nathaniel Hawthrone- The Scarlet Letter
Thomas Jefferson- The Declaration of Independence
Walt Whitman- I Hear American Singing -
Period: to
Realism/ Naturalism
Realism
- It gave a truthful, objective of everyday life
Naturalism
- focused on social problems and larger biological forces that cause these problems
Authors-
Mark Twain- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Ralph Waldo Emerson- From NATURE -
Period: to
The Moderns
Harlem Renaissance/ Jazz Age (1920s)
- African Americans had gotten more access to publishing and media. It brought about gospel music.
Authors-
F. Scott Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby
John Steinbeck- The Red Pony
Edna St. Vincent Millay- "Recuerdo"
Robert Frost- Out,Out-
Langston Hughes- "I,Too"
Countee Cullen- "Incident"
William Carlos Williams- "The Red Wheelbarrow" -
Period: to
Contemporary
Post- Modernism (1950-present)
- time after WWll. It was a mix of fiction and nonfiction and gave a sense of reality.
Authors-
Ann Sexton- "Riding the Elevator into the Sky"