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Period: Jan 1, 1472 to
Puritan Literature
The Puritan literature era had more focus on journals, and personal poem such as diaries. The Puritans were extremely religious and usually wrote stories about religion or perspective on life and creation or their culture. It was called the Puritan literature period because all of the influence of Puritan ideals and values. They were a bit similar to the Native American literature because they highly valued their lifestyle and culture to an extreme. -
Period: Apr 23, 1500 to
Modern Age
The modern age era really began in the 16th century. Many major events like the fall of Constantinople and muslim spain, the protestant reformation of martin luther in 1517. This is often called the tudor period with Henry iiv victory. Many events began the true form of the modern era. -
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Enlightenment Literature
The Enlightenment period of literature was mostly known as the age of reason because it was a mixture of different kinds of ideas and activities which took place throughout the eighteenth century in Western Europe. It was like a new age because the advancement of science and industries so most of the novels, writers, and stories were talking about labor or industrial growth and science. These novels were mostly about honoring the time era when humanity was advancing everything. -
Pensées
The Pensées represented a defense of the Christian religion by Blaise Pascal. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the Pensées was in many ways his life's work. He was a science man who wrote his religion as a math like formula to describe why things were the way they were. -
The mind on fire
"'Take from me, O Lord, that self-pity which love of myself so readily " The stories Pascal usually wrote were about the religion and science and how he lead more towards the teachings of religion and therefore wrote how it influenced the science. This book particular talks about his experiences with writting literature. -
The great hurricane
Implementing Old-World beliefs in a New-World environment, the Puritans maintained their focus on education and their strict sense of "right behavior." For the first time in recorded history, children were provided with a free education when, in 1635. -
The cotume of great britain
Also known as a neck-stretcher, the pillory's purpose was to publicly punish (and humiliate) people for all kinds of offenses. Frequently, a pillory could be rotated, so members of the public could get a good look at the person on display. -
The pillory
The pillory, intended to prevent "the culprit" from looking away, was part of a punishing humiliation process. Anyone "doing time" on that scaffold would have had little, if any, sympathy from a crowd of Puritan on-lookers -
Upon the Burning of Our House
"And when I could no longer look, I blest his grace that gave and took,” Puritans were very concerned with issues of faith. They wrote things about the right religion were there and most of their writings like this one tried to convince other to convert puritan and follow their beliefs. Many sermons and religious poems have survived to this day. -
The Flesh and the Spirit
In this poem, the author describes life as a puritan and how life feels complete knowing they are in the right religion but although they are, there are still sins that lie dead on our flesh. It talks about how the sins are still in plain sight and we see them every day as the way we see our skin everyday. Then the author talks about resolutions in these types of situations. It was more of like a diary that contained content to a healthier lifestyle for both herself families and others. -
Nasrudin The Wise Fool & Hasan the Mystic
Narsreddin Hodja’s were these two wives that were constantly asking about there savors about the love and how they both do the same. But it really didn’t answer the question in the fact and that was finally put into answering that he secretly gavew each of them a blue bead that privately instructing each of the womean that she should tell no one of the gift. Then after shortly it was to become of that thee favor of the wife and the enlightenment gave the favor of the wife shortly after the des -
The old hymalayas
There was a land in the Himalayas that layed a dark mountain cave that had an old man. A man that was chosen of the holy life and that was deeply involved in spiritual practices that formed a moring until night that really was the base of what they call themselves sadhu. Which is what the man was named, that who had not eaten for 3 years for a thimble full of water and a blade of grass each day. The old man in the cave went on about his day, cooking tea over a fire, tending to a small garden, -
Rabbi
Rabbi that was occord towards that everyone in his community that was enchanted with everything he said. His name was Isaac that was who never missed an opportunity that contradicted with the interpretations and the the point of the teaching. Of the rabbi and that it was resentful towards the enlightenment that still kept him thinking that there was other ways to think this one through so tuff but onless his changes his thoughts and beings of the Rabbi himself. -
The hermit
Word spread across the countryside about the wise Holy Man who lived in a small house atop the mountain, as a hermit. A man from the village decided to make the long and difficult journey to visit him. When he arrived at the house, he saw an old servant inside who greeted him at the door. -
Leviathan
Leviathan, the novel, talks about the concern for the mechanics of the human mind and covering the topics of sense, imagination, and the train of thought. With this book the author is arguing that the knowledge of the world originates from "external bodies". It might mean that he is referring to supernatural of the society around us. -
An account of events in Salem
This was a documement showing the number of trials where men and wom en were being convicted of witch craft and this is because of the influence of Puritan beliefs on the people and it helps support the fact that they ad alot of pride in their culture and religion and they would kill anyone or execute anyone who goes against it inorder to protect the religion and themselves. -
Treatise Concerning the Lord's Supper
Edward Taylor considered the sacrament pure and holy and celebrated it often. He wrote most of his novels based around these ideas. This novel particular discussed the sacrament and its purity and tried to convince others that it should be celebrated more often. We can infer that the Puritans would search their daily lives in order to find any symbols from God. It also contained content of the Salem witch trials and how they were getting famous. -
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Native American Literature
No one is really sure the exact date when Native American literature begun, it is estimated that Native American literature had started back around c.20, 000B.C.E. Most of the literature works during this time period were centered on stories such as myths, legends, and ancestry. They were written a long time before the Europeans settled in North America; some groups included, Zunis, Blackfoot, Cherokee, and the Navajos. Their literature contained elements such as explanation of creation. -
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Gothic Fiction Literature
Gothic fiction include terror, mystery, the supernatural, ghosts,
haunted houses and Gothic architecture, castles, darkness, death, and curses. It was a more scary era.The typical characters of Gothic fiction include tyrants, villains, bandits, maniacs, persecuted maidens, vampires, werewolves, monsters, demons, revenants, ghosts and the Devil himself. -
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
This novel is about is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll and the evil Edward Hyde. There are two personalities within Dr Jekyll, one apparently good and the other evil; completely opposite levels of morality. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" coming to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation -
The phantom of the opera
The Phantom of the Opera belongs to the category of Literature, which combines equals parts of horror and romance. Set in the Paris Grand Opera house, which exists to this day, it is a most unusual plot and quite unique from that of any other story. -
Encyclopédi
This novel in particular became a prominent symbol of the Enlightenment and helped spread the movement throughout Europe. It was about different things around the globe which include much information to those who wrote it and it has a thirty-five-volume compilation of human knowledge in the arts and sciences, along with commentary from a number of Enlightenment thinkers. -
Sinners in the hands of an angry God
A sinner in the hands of an angry God is one of the most famous writings written during the Puritan literature era. It contains content that is extremely frank and supportive of the puritan religion it basically outlines the enormous amount of power their God contains and that those who do not follow will fall into “the pit of fire” This religious writing is centered around the ideals of puritans and what they believe because it is “the way.” -
On Crimes and Punishments
Cesare Beccaria was a politician man who ventured into philosophy to protest the horrible injustices that he observed in various European judicial systems. This book was dicussing how the punishment was the time was crucial and new according to the different type of advancement in society. -
The Castle of Otranto.
Manfred, prince of Otranto, is desperate to avoid the effects of a prophecy which warns that the lordship of Otranto will pass from his family when there are no more male heirs and attempts to marry his son, Conrad, to the unenthusiastic Isabella, in order to prolong the line, but Conrad is killed by the fall of an immense helmet. -
A Sermon Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul, an Indian
This was during the 18th century when there was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology. This is when they started expanding record-keeping and making it possible to advance our printing process. They were manuscript copies that were publically available and were popular with independent scholars. It was stories about their lifestyle during the 18th century; including, farmer’s bankers and merchants. They wrote these to diverse and expand their lifestyle and cultures be -
The Sorrows of Young Werther
These are the letters of Werther, a young artist of highly sensitive and passionate temperament, sent to his friend Wilhelm. In these letters Werther gives an intimate account of his stay in the village Wahlheim. He is enchanted by the peasants there and falls instantly in love with Charlotte. Charlotte is however already engaged. -
The mariage of heaven and hell
The story is about the authors visit to hell. It is not necessarily hell itself it is more of a stylistic writing where he had reached a state in his life where he felt it was at his worst and it seemed un escapable. Then he starts to talk about hevan and the difference between the two types of mariage. -
A Son of the Forest
This was the first published autobiography written by a Native America, William Apes, which talked about his like stories and the legends he grew up with and the way that they affected his life. It talks also about his ancestry and the different impacts of different aspects of life have had on him. Since he is native, he also has different myths that were known during this time period and perception on the creation of man. -
Robinson Crusor
Robinson Crusoe, set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea, is forced to make do with only a knife, some tobacco, and a pipe. He learns how to build a canoe, make bread, and endure endless solitude. That is, until, twenty-four years later, when he confronts another human being. -
Gillivers Travels
This is a novel by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travelers’ tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. -
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Romanticism Liturature
This is when Purely American topics were introduced such as frontier life; and romantic elements included artistic movements of the nineteenth century that came because of the reaction towards Neoclassicism in the eighteen-century. Some of the writer include: Thoreau, Emerson, Dickinson, Hawthorne, and Melville. Romanticism is particularly evident in the works of the New England Transcendentalists. It was also a great literary movement because it focused more on things such as reactions or sit -
Frankenstein
Dr. Frankenstein believes he can recreate life and sets to constructing a human being but he puts him locked away from the rest of the world isolating him, and the monster is just trying to find acceptance in the world. -
Always in paradise
This story mostly included content from his back ground life style and tales he grew up with. It is about the author and how he would write about personal experiences or his poverty and obscurity of life before and after his horrible experience; also, those who have influenced him and his actions. -
The Life of William Blake
This was also another book whic talked about him and his life experiences and the trouble he went through. This novel actually gives more details than the other one about the different situations he has encountered throughout his years of living. its more of a biography type thing because it has alot of backround. -
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Transcendentalism
Transcendentalism was really developed in the state of intellectualism at Harvard and the doctrine of the Unitarian church that of the core beliefs in the inherent goodness of both people and nature. That transcendentalists believed that society and the insititutions-particularly organized religion of the political parties. That the individual of the faith and the self-reliant of independence of individuals of that true community that can be formed. -
Eulogy on King Philip
January 26, 1836 William Apess gave a public lecture in the form of a memorial eulogy for King Philip. He was also another one of the Native Americans to write an auto like biography. His purpose was to push for more rights with the Native Americans since it was their land first before the Europeans had settled. He discussed his story and the rights he was open to but this speech really pushed for more civil rights for him and his people. -
The american scholar
The American Scholar was a speech by Ralph Emerson that brang society that invited to speak of the recongnition of his groundbreaking work Nature and the publish of how the American population has banked of. The influence of by the European and Emerson that the first time in the country the framework for escaping of the identity of the possibility that 60ty years of declaring independence. -
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Harlem renissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. Though it was centered in the Harlemneighborhood of New York City, many French-speaking black writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris were also influenced by the Harlem Renaissance.The Harlem Renaissance is unofficially recognized to have spanned from about 1919 until the early or mid-1930s. -
The marriage of heaven and hell
This work is a series of texts written in imitation of biblical prophecy but expressing Blake's own intensely personal Romantic and revolutionary beliefs. Like his other books, it was published as printed sheets from etched plates containing prose, poetry, and illustrations. -
hunchback of Notre Dame
Mocked and shunned for his appearance, the “hunchback of Notre Dame” is pitied only by Esmerelda, a beautiful gypsy dancer to whom he becomes completely devoted. Esmerelda, however, has also attracted the attention of the sinister archdeacon Claude Frollo, and when she rejects his lecherous approaches, Frollo hatches a plot to destroy her, that only Quasimodo can prevent. Victor Hugo's sensational, evocative novel brings life to the medieval Paris he loved, and mourns its passing in one of the -
The Black Cat
The story is about and his wife having many pets, like the black cat named Pluto. Their mutual friendship lasts for several years, until the narrator becomes an alcoholic. One night coming home intoxicated, he believes the cat is avoiding him. When he tries to seize it, the panicked cat bites the narrator, and in a fit of rage, he seizes the animal, pulls a pen-knife from his pocket, and deliberately gouges out the cat's eye. -
Life, History and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh
This novel was written by a young Indian chief of the Ojibwa Nation who was raised in Christianity by his parents. He wrote most of his stories about ancestry, and history (past). He related then to his past and journey and spoke of them as other people. It influenced his people to intake, honor and accept their past lives. Because of this novel, he had much popularity not only with people but also other fellow Americans. -
The Scarlet Letter
The scarlet letter was categorized under romanticism. It was about an uneasy truce between the Puritans and Algonquian, and it contains the teaching of puritans and shows how the influence of pure religious and strict ruling affected the lifestyles of some people living during this time period. It contains personal writings and diaries. It is a great novel to refer too when you discuss what puritan ideals and romanticism contributed to personal lifestyles. -
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Realism
Realism was the art of generally that is deifined as the attempt that of the matter that truthfully without articiality that avoiding artistic conventions that was the most specific sense towards the artistic movement. It revolted against the exotic of the exaggerated of emotionalism that the dramatic movement. -
The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta
In 1835 Ridge wrote about a legendary bandit in the southern California, and it had a theme of violence. It influences other Cherokee people to write about their injustice and racial discrimination. It talks about how Merieta becomes corrupted by others because he considered a victim of racially motivated violence. This was a way to expand their culture and understandings of California. This was important during this time period because it was showing their lack of authority and rights. -
The neckalace
The Necklace has a sense of realism that goes through that it was believed that is was fiction that should convey the reality of such accuracy as possible. The strive of objectivity that was rather than psychological and explorated. The specific and observable of details that go through the facts and the illusions that were created of particular effects to readers of descriptions. The realistic fiction is that every work of fiction has been believed has an illusion. -
Little women
The book was written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts. The novel follows the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March – and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters. -
Walden
The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts.By immersing himself in nature, Thoreau hoped to gain a more objective understanding of society through personal introspection. Simple livin -
Alice in wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It is about a girl traveling in an unrealistic world finding herself a whole dfferent person. -
Lowly
Lowly life’s by Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar is a series of thirty eight somber and emotional poems dealing with the treatment towards African Americas in the 18th century. He described the pain and the torture that went along each day to please their master. Several of them were anecdotes and some where tales of others facing the cruel reality of mistreatment. -
Carmilla
It tells the story of a young woman's vulnerability to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla. She is deceived by a creature of the night. Her friend tries to warn her with his dreams, but shes far from his reach. -
The right of silas
This story is shown as a way of telling that the moral susceptibility of the fortune that the paint business of lack social standards of the attain that through his daughter’s marriage into the aristocratic Corey family. That was the moral fact that the lose of his money that makes the right moral that the decision when his partner that proposes the unethical selling of the mills to English settlers. -
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The story is about a guy who was handsome but in a way he was a monster like creature who felt the need to alienate himself away from all society. So he locks himself up and in a way where there is no contact with other people who are “normal” It is similar to Dracula. -
Dracula
A business man comes to Transylvania to meet with Dracula, but he does not know that he is a very dangerous monster. He realizes that Dracula is shipping coffin and fleas immediately, then he seems Dracula at his home in London. Sends to kill him by the priest and kills him. -
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Imagism
Imagism was a movement that in the 20th century that was began with poetry that forced a way with precision that imagery and the clear and sharp of language. That really was the influential movement in English poetry since the activity of the Pre-Raphaelites. The modernism that starts with that yet has the remarkanism that accurate to consider of imaginism that not as a doctrine nor even as a poetic principl that is associated with an accurate imagism. -
The adventures of huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is about a young boy, Huck, in search of freedom and adventure. The shores of the Mississippi River provide the backdrop for the entire book. -
The third major stage
The 19th Amendment prohibited the denial of the right to vote because of sex. Its ratification in 1920 completed the third exansion of suffarage -
The weary blues
The poem begins with a speaker telling someone about a piano player he heard a couple nights ago. This musician was playing a slow blues song with all his body and soul. The speaker starts to really get into the sad music. Starting at line 19, we get the first verse to the song. This musician is singing about how, even though he's miserable, he's going to put his worries aside. The second verse is more of a bummer: nothing can cure his blues, and he wishes he was dead. -
The midnight folk
This novel was a children’s fantasy that set between the discovery of what became the fortune of the seafaring of great grandfather. The treasure is also sought by a coven that is holded by two witches who are also seeking it for their own ends. That the member of the coven are garded with there lives that are led by the witches and are guided by the wizard Abner Brown -
Brave new world
Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London of AD 2540, the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological -
The fire in the flint
Using an unconventional writing form, Fauset advanced themes of racial uplift, patriotism, optimism for the future, and black solidarity. This novel focused on the career and then the lynching of a black physician and veteran of World War I. Protesting racial oppression and showing the harsh reality of the world -
The Hoosier School-Mast
This is an 1871 novel by the American author Edward Eggleston. The novel originated from a series of stories written for Hearth and Home, a periodical edited by Eggleston, and was based on the experiences of his brother, George Cary Eggleston, who had been a schoolteacher in Indiana.The novel is noted for its realistic depictions of 19th-century American rural life and for its use of local dialect. -
The story of a country town
E. W. Howe established his reputation as an American realistic novelist with The Story of Country Town, an engrossing and vivid portrait of Midwestern Puritanism. Semi-autobiographical and enormously successful when published, the book tells the tale of Ned Westlock and his family, who live in a small Midwestern farming community. -
Umbrella
Disparate timelines swirl around the encephalitic Audrey Death, the brain-dead patient in the center of Will Self's masterful new novel. Shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, Umbrella is a Joycean free-flow of memories and experiences shared between Audrey, her doctor, and her brother. -
House made of dawn
House Made of Dawn by N.Scott Momaday (Kiowa/Cherokee)Momaday's novel also incorporates elements of the culture and tradition that tribes have managed to sustain on reservations, portraying the strength that can be drawn from these traditions. -
The fifth major stage
Was about that no state can deprive any person who is at least 18 years of age of the right to vote because of age -
The color purple
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name -
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Contemporary
Based on human lifespan, contemporary history would extend for a period of approximately 80 years. Obviously, this concept shifts in absolute terms as the generations pass. In a narrower sense, "contemporary history" may refer to the history remembered by most adults currently living, extending to about a generation. -
Lord of the flies
Lord of the Flies is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results -
Catching fire
Catching Fire is a 2009 science fiction novel by American novelist Suzanne Collins, the second book in The Hunger Games trilogy. -
Life amoung the piuts
This autobiographical work was written by Sarah Winnemucca, who was a Paiute princess. Life Among the Piutes deals with Winnemucca's life and the plight of the Paiute Indians. Life Among the Piutes is Winnemucca's powerful legacy to both white and Paiute cultures. Following the oral tradition of Native American people, she reaches out to readers with a deeply personal appeal for understanding. In the book she also records historical events from the Native American viewpoint of whites settling t -
The son of the forest
"A Son of the Forest," is the first published autobiography by a Native American in 1828.The life and writings of William Apes are a window onto the little known and little understood world Native American lived in. Ape was converted into Christianity in 1813 and ever since was a devoted Christian strong in his faith. At a time when society in general scorned Methodism and Native Americans, Apes proudly embraced the faith and his race in this literary work. In his autobiography he wrote and spo
