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Puritan/Colonial
Website to Great Wakeningkeys ideas are
The Sinners of the angery God
Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation
Rowlandson's "A Narrative of the Captivity"
The 5 prevalent authers and works are
Anne Hutchinson
William Penn
Gilbert Tennent
John Wesley
George Whitefield
The 3 mayor Events are
1640's: Cambridge Platform established
1647: "Friends Of Truth" organized
1730's: Great Awakening -
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Time Periods in American Literature
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Ending Puritan/Colonial
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Revolutionary/Age of reason
A poem written3 key ideas
Age of enlightenment,Reason,Rationality
5 prevalent authers and works
Writings of Jefferson, Paine, Henry
Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac
Franklin's "The Autobiography"
John Dryden
Alexander Pope
3 major events
a plague spread throughout the city killing more than 70,000 people. 100 churches were destroyed.and 2/3 of the population were displaced. -
Ending Revolutionary/Age of reasons
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Romanticism
Short Writting3 Key ideas
Poetry,Short stories,Character sketches.
5 Prevalent Authers and works
William Blake, "The Tyger" and "The Lamb"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison"; "Frost at Midnight"
John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"; "Ode to a Nightingale"; "Epistle to J. H. Reynolds"
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind"
William Wordsworth, "Tintern Abbey"
3 Major events
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Continue on Romanticism
1757: William Blake, a poet of the Romantic Movement is born.
1786: The poem by Robert Burns called A Winter Night is published.
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Gothic
Shories3 key ideas
shadows, a beam of moonlight in the blackness, a flickering candle.
5 prevalent author s and works
Domenic, Anne, et al. “The Gothic Novel.”
Melani, L. “Gothic Fiction in the Twentieth Century.”
Harris, Robert. "Elements of the Gothic Novel."
De Vore, David, Anne Domenic, Alexandra Kwan, and Nicole Reidy. "The Gothic Novel."
3 major events
1811, St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian
The Vampyre (1819)
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Ending Romanticism
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Transcendentalism
Short Poetry3 key ideas
Poetry
Short Stories
Novels
5 prevalent authors and works
Thoreau's Walden
Aphorisms of Emerson and Thoreau
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"
"The Black Cat"
3 major events
1855 Walt Whitman publishes his Leaves of Grass.
1859 Charles Darwin's Origin of Species is published.
1862 Henry David Thoreau dies. -
Ending Gothic
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Realism
Short Shories3 key ideas
Novels
short stories
Objective narrator
5 prevalnent Author and works
Regional works like: The Awakening. Ethan Frome, and My Antonia
Writings of Twain, Bierce, Crane
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
3 Major events
Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dead
The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge.
End of Cold War -
Ending Transcendentalism
This time point is where they started to go into the modern side. -
Ending Realism
This is where they started to go into the modern time. -
Modernism
Short Stories3 key ideas
Novels
Plays
Poetry
5 prevalent Authors and works
Miller's The Death of a Salesman (some consider Postmodern)
Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Short stories and novels of Steinbeck, Hemingway, Thurber, Welty, and Faulkner
3 major events
Boxer Rebellion in China
Italy's King Assassinated
Kodak Introduces $1 Brownie Cameras
Max Planck Formulates Quantum Theory
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Harlem Renaissance
Short Peom3 key ideas
Allusions to African-American spirituals
Uses structure of blues songs in poetry (repetition)
Superficial stereotypes revealed to be complex characters
5 prevalent author and works
Essays & Poetry of W.E.B. DuBois
Poetry of McKay, Toomer, Cullen
Poetry, short stories and novels of Hurston and Hughes
3 Major events
James Weldon Johnson, first black officer (secretary) of NAACP appointed.
Claude McKay published Spring in New Hampshire.
Du Bois's Darkwater is published. -
Ending Modernism
This is where they end the modernism and started to go into the postmodernism. -
