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Period: Jan 1, 620 to
Puritanism
Puritanism focused on the importance of worshiping God and of spirtitual dangers that were faced on Earth. Writing during this time period varied widely from metaphysicaal poetry to homely journals and religious history. During this time period many colonistt were settling in the New World. Due to intolerant religious colonies other colonies were established from the Christianity Roformation and leading to the toleration act. -
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Published sometime in the year of 1650
Author: Anne Bradstreet -
Sinners in Hands of Angry God
Author: Jonathan Edwards -
Period: to
Rationalism
In the Rationalism literary period authors empahsized rationality over tradition, representative government instead of nobelity, and more scientfic reasoning rather than religious views. Writers based their work on justice, liberty, and equality as natural rights of man. The American Revolution against Britain ocurred during this time period and people expressed through writings about their freedom and independence. -
Speech to Virginia Convention
Author: Patrick Henry -
Delclaration of Independence
Author: Thomas Jefferson -
From the American Crisis
Author: Thomas Paine -
Speech in the Convention
Author: Benjamin Franklin -
Period: to
Romanticism
In this literary movement there were changes in music, painting, and literature. Primacy of imagination was a belief in rationalism. Person freedom, spontaniety, and self-expression were themes focused on. Supporting ideals of democracy and republicanism were important ideas. Romantists believed in human equality. Writers favored "natural" socities over repressive artificial civilization. -
The Devil and Tom Walker
Publised in 1824
Author: Washington Irving -
From Nature: Self-Reliance
Published sometime during 1836
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The Raven
Author: Edgar Allen Poe -
The Scarlet Letter
Published in the year of 1850
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne -
Moby Dick
Published in 1851
Author: Herman Melville -
From Walden
Published during 1854
Author: Henry David Thoreau -
Leaves of Grass
Published in 1855
Author: Walt Whitman -
Period: to
Realism
Realism rejects romanticism, and describes things exactly as they are perceived. The focus is usually on an average citizen. -
Period: to
Regionalism
It's a characteristic of Realism and the authors of Regionalistic books typically have the settings of their books in the same general area. -
The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls
Published in 1880
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By Mark Twain -
Period: to
Naturalism
A literary period that focused on cruelty of the natural world and usually ends in despair. -
Poetry Collection
Published after her death in 1890
Author: Emily Dickinson -
Red Badge of Courage
By Stephan Crane -
The Awakening
By Kate Chapin -
Call of the Wild
By Jack London -
A Wagner Matinee
By Willa Cather -
The House of Mirth
By Edith Wharton -
Period: to
Modernism
WWI, The Depression, and the Holocaust happened uring this time period. These events affected how writers thought about themselves and the world. Modernism gave people new ways to be delighted -
The Road Not Taken (poem)
By Robert Frost -
Period: to
Harlem Renaissance
During this time period blacks were still treated unfairly and literature reflected that. The Harlem Renaissance gave Americans a language with which to begin a discussion about racism. This ws the first time that African American artists were taken seriously by the culture at large. -
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald -
As I Lay Dying
By William Faulkner -
To Kill a Mockingbird
By Harper Lee -
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston -
Grapes of Wrath
By John Steinbeck -
For Whom the Bell Tolls
By Ernest Hemingway -
A Worn Path
By Eudora Welty -
Native Son
by Richard Wright -
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway -
Period: to
Postmodernism
Postmodernism was right after WWll so literature talked about WWll. Some literature dealt with grief and shock while some treated the war with tragic comedy. -
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison -
A Good Man is Hard to Find
By Flannery O'Connor
