Literary movements DATES Flashcards
American Literature
1
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Before 1600
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Native American
2
Q
1620-1750
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Puritanism or colonialism
3
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1750-1800
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Revolutionary, Age of reason, Enlightenment
4
Q
1800-1865
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Romanticism, American Gothic
5
Q
1840 - 1860
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Transcendentalism
6
Q
1865 - 1914
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Realism, Naturalism & Regionalism
7
Q
1914 - 1945
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Modernism
8
Q
1917 - 1937
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Lost generation, Jazz age, Roaring 20s & The Harlem Renaissance
9
Q
1950 -1965
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Beat generation
10
Q
1950 - present
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Contemporary/Postmodernism
11
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1960s - present
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Multiculturalism/Globalisation