Literary periods

Question 1

When was the Age of Reason/Enlightenment and which authors are representatives of this period

Answer 1

Beginnings to 1820

John Smith, John Winthrop, Benjamin Franklin, J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

Question 2

When was the Romanticism/American Renaissance era and which authors are representatives of the period

Answer 2

1820-1865

Walt Whitman (transcendentalism), Ralph Waldo Emerson (transcendentalism), Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville (dark romanticism)

Question 3

When was the Realism era and which authors are representatives of the period

Answer 3

1865-1914

Charles Eastman/Ohiyesa, Stephen Crane, Drude Krog Janson, Lee Chew, Mary Antin, W.E.B. Du Bois, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Question 4

When was the Modernism era and which authors are representatives of the period

Answer 4

1914-1945

Zora Neal Hurston, Langston Hughes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore