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Native American/ Colonial Period
-Major Characteristics: Communicated orally, Myths and legends, Focus on nature; creation stories, but also Religous/ Political Views.
-Authors/Works:
Anne Bradstreet, "To My Dear and Loving Husband"
Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" -
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Romanticism
-Major Characteristics: Individualism, Nature, emotions, and Imagination
-Authors/Works-
Edgar Allen Poe, "The Raven"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Scarlet Letter" -
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Realism
-Major Characteristics: Action Against Romanticism, focus on lives of ordinary people, reject the class system.
-Authors/Works-
Jack London, "To Build A Fire"
Mark Twain, "Adventures of Tom Sawyer" -
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Naturalism
Major Characteristics- Natures laws are needing to be uncovered
Authors/Works-
Theodore Dreiser, "Sister Carrie"
James T. Ferrell, "Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy"
Frank Norris, "The Octopus" -
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Modernism
Major Characteristics: Rise of Youth Culture, focus on alienation, experimenting in literature, strive to be unique.
-Author/Works-
F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"
William Faulkner, "As I lay dying"
John Steinback, "Of Mice and Men" -
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Post Modern
Major Characteristics- Social protesting, new beginning, media culture, prosperity.
Author/Works-
Stephen King, "Carrie", "The Shining"
Allen Ginsberg, "Howl"
Truman Capote, 'In Cold Blood"