MTELS

Question 1

colonial

Answer 1

17th century-1830
first European settlers of North America wrote about their experiences. Practical, straightforward, often derivative of literature in Great Britain, and focused on the future. John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet. Jonathan Edwards

Question 2

Revolutionary

Answer 2

1765-1783. Beyond puritan. Distinctly American style. Phillis Wheatley

Question 3

Romanticism

Answer 3

1800-1850. Emphasizes emotion and individualism. Glorified the past and nature. Medieval. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson

Question 4

Realism

Answer 4

Mid 19th century. Represent subject matter truthfully. Mark Twain, Stephen Crane.

Question 5

Civil War

Answer 5

1861-1865. Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 6

Post Civil War

Answer 6

No more romanticism. Louisa May Alcott. Urbanization and immigration.