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Puritanism, 1700-1750
sermons, diaries, personal narratives, plain style -
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American Literary Time Periods, 1700-1900
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Rationalism, Age of Enlightenment, 1750-1850
political pamphlets, travel writing, highly ornate. National Mission and American Character, democratic utopia. -
Romanticism, 1800-1850
poetry, short stories, novels, slave narratives, essays, Transcendentalism, imagination over reason -
Transcendentalism, 1836-1860
Sub-genre of Romanticism. Main ideas - imagination over reason, reverence for nature, focus on the individual. -
Realism, 1850-1900
Spirituals, slave narratives, political writing, poetry, Naturalism, Reagionalism, Social Realism