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To My Dear and Loving Husband
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Puritanism
People traveled to Europe to live in the new world due to religios problems. Their leader was William Penn. These events caused Marryland to write and sign the toleration act. This changed the world because this ment people could belive in anything they wanted. All of this happened in America. They wrote about relligios tolerance and tolerance to other belifes. -
Sinners in Hands of Angry God
by Johnathan Edwards -
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Rationalism
Major documents were written and signed by some of the worlds most important people. These events affected the people by letting them rule them-selves. Giving rights to the people. With out the litature of this time period man would not be the same. This time period was all about rights to nobel citizens and all man kind, new in ventions. It was a new awakening for people of that time period. -
Speech to Virginia Convention
by Patrick Henry -
Declaration of Independence
by Thomas Jefferson -
from The American Crisis
by Thomas Paine -
Speech in the convention
by Benjamin Franklin -
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Romanctism
A time where authors would write plays for there loved ones and people from all over would come watch it. The better the play the more money the town would get. had no effect on America. -
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Regionalism
Another word for it is Local Color. Hade racial segregation and feminism turning this time. It was mostly fiction and poetry that focused on the characters, dialect, customs, topography, and other features particular to a specific region. -
The Devil and Tom Walker
by Washington Irving -
Nature; Self- Reliance
by Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The Raven
by Edgar Allan Poe -
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne -
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Realism
This time period hade the Civil War, and Licoln assasination. Liturature became dark and gloomy. America was at a war with its self and you could sense the pain and strife of it in the writing. Describes life without idealization or romatic subjectivity. The term "realism" which was origanally used by the thirteenth-century scholastics to describe a belief in the reality of ideas. " Realism cannot make a poet." Evolved into Naturalism. -
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville -
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau -
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman -
Poetry collection
by Emilly Dickinson -
We Wear the Mask
by Paul Laurence Dunbar -
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Naturalism
This time period was antiromatic, humans impose will upon their own destiny, reality, scientific detached view, survival of the fittest. This is cause during this time period there was World War I and II, and the Great Depression. Liturature was no longerhappy and ficticous, but actually more nonfiction and was based more around current events. In the writting you could tell it could or was a real event. -
the Tide Rises, The Tide Falls
by Henery Wadsworth Longfellow -
The Adv. of Huck Finn
by Mark Twain -
the Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane -
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin -
Call of the Wild
by Jack London -
A Wagner Matinee
by Willa Cather -
The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton -
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Modernism
This period was all about religion, politics, no suffering, and places and regions. Most books were like this because of what happened in that time period. The Jews were sent to camp and this scared people on how people are and how bad people are forced to live like. This made the U.S. go to war. Another thing that happened was the bombing of Pearl Harbor which slowed literature down because everyone's minds were racing. It also scared people and showed them they that they aren't as safe, in U.S -
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Harlem Renaissance
Gandhi lead a march so that the Indians didn't have to pay British taxes, and this showed people that there is more than one way to get what you want. People were trying to stay calm and became an example of the African Americans. Stock market crash in America was in this time period as well. This showedpeople that there are different ways to see everything. This effecte the themes being race, freedom, womans rights. -
The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost -
The Wasteland
by T.S. Eliot -
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald -
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner -
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston -
the Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck -
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Postmodernism
It is all about tecnology, the Holocaust, space and race. Space because Armstrong went to the moon for the U.S. We were the first people there, so of course people wanted to know more about space and what is out there. Then there is Rosa Parks, an African American woman that changed how people saw eachother and brought many people to a upraw. She gave African Americans opotunities like writing a book. -
Native Son
by Richard Wright -
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway -
I Too
by Langston Hughes -
Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger -
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison -
A Good Man is Hard to Find
by Flannery O'Connor -
The Crucible
by Arthor Miller -
Old Age Sicks
by EE cummings -
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harpor Lee -
Beloved
by Toni Morrison -
A Worn Path
by Eudora Welty
