american literature Flashcards

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colonial period

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1620-1750

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colonial authors

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william bradshaw
john smith
cotton mather

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revolutionary period

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1750-1800

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revolutionary authors

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benjamin franklin
thomas paine
abigail adams

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5
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romanticism period

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1800-1850

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romanticism authors

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emily dickinson

henry wadsworth longfellow

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transcendentalists

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ralph waldo emerson

henry david thoreau

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anti-transcendentalisms

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edgar allan poe

nathaniel hawthorne

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civil war period

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1850-1880

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10
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civil war authors

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frederick douglass
louisa may alcott
walt whitman

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realism period

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1850-1915

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realism authors

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mark twain
kate chopin
henry james

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13
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naturalists

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shtephen crane

upton sinclair

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14
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regionalists

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jack london

willa cather

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modernism period

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1915-1940

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modernism authors

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f scott fitzgerald
ernest hemingway
gertrude stein

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modernism poets

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robert frost
ts eliot
william carlos williams

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harlem renaissance authors

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langston hughes
countee cullen
gwendolyn brooks

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post modernism/contemporary period

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1940-present

20
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post modernism authors

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sylvia plath
toni morrison
tennessee williams