Literary movements - important ones

Question 1

1800 - 1865: Romanticism/American Gothic

Answer 1

Idealism
Feeling, experience/imagination.
Individual freedom
supernatural themes/settings

Question 2

1840 - 1860: Transcendentalism

Answer 2

Individualism over authority & conformity
Organizations corrupted people’s goodness
Community

Question 3

1865 - 1914: Realism, Naturalism & Regionalism

Answer 3

Disillusionment
Industrial revolution
Realistic setting

Question 4

1914 - 1945: Modernism

Answer 4

Bold/experimental
Struggles of individuals
Optimistic belief that people can change the world around them.

Question 5

b1917 - 1937: Lost generation/Jazz age/Roaring 20s/The Harlem Renaissance

Answer 5

African - American culture
Prohibition
Reaction to WW1
Sultry nature/nightlife

Question 6

1950 - 1965: Beat Generation

Answer 6

Against prudery of previous generations
Promoted sex/sexuality as healthy topics of conversation

Question 7

1950 - present: Contemporary/Postmodernism

Answer 7

Media influence
Nothing is truly unique
Marked by irony/untrustworthy narrators/self awareness