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American Literature Timeline Flashcards

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What are characteristics of the Puritan period?

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  • They wrote mostly in diaries about connection with God

* Saw religion as a personal experience

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Name famous authors of the Puritan period

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William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, and Jonathan Edwards

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What famous war was taking place during Rationalism?

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The revolutionary war

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What was another name(s) for Rationalism

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  • The Age of Reason

* The Enlightenment

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What are characteristics of the Age of Reason

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Mostly comprised of philosophers, scientists, writing speeches

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Name famous authors from The Age of Reason

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  • Benjamin Franklin

* Thomas Paine

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What years did the Romanticism take place?

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1800-1860

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Characteristics of Romanticism

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  • Valued feeling, intuition, idealism, and inductive reasoning
  • Placed faith in inner experience and the power of imagination
  • Dark Romantics
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Famous authors from Romanticism

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  • Washington Irving
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Walt Whitman
  • Edgar Allen Poe
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Characteristics of Transcendentalism

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  • Everything in the world, including human beings, is a reflection of the divine soul
  • Self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and blind conformity to tradition
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Famous authors of Transcendentalism

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Characteristics of Realism

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  • Feelings of disillusionment
  • Common subjects; slums of rapidly growing cities
  • Represented manner and everyday environment of everyday life
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Famous authors of Realism

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  • Mark Twain
  • Jack London
  • Stephen Crane
  • Ambrose Bierce
  • Kate Chopin
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What war was taking place during Modernism?

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World War I

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Characteristics of Modernism

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Sense of disillusionment and loss of faith in the “American Dream”

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Name famous authors of Modernism

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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

* John Steinbeck

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Characteristics of Harlem Renaissance

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  • Black cultural movement in Harlem, New York

* poetry rhythms based on spirituals and jazz, lyrics on the blues

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Famous authors from Harlem Renaissance

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  • Langston Hughes

* Zora Neale Hurston

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Characteristics of Contemporary

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New literary forms and techniques; works composed of only dialogue or combining fiction and nonfiction

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What is another name for contemporary?

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Postmodernism

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What is a characteristic of the Native American period?

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Based on oral literature: epic narratives, creation myths, stories and songs

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