american literature timeline – Flashcards
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Native Americans (Period Name)
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Oral Literature: epic narratives, creation myths, stories, poems, and songs
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Puritanism (Period Characteristics)
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wrote mostly diaries and histories, which expressed the connections between god and their everyday lives
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Puritanism (Period Dates)
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1600-1800
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Puritanism (Author)
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william bradford, anne bradstreet, jon edwards and mary rowlandson's captivity narratives
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Rationalism (Period Name & Date)
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1750- 1800 "The age of reason" "The Enlightenment" Revolutionary War
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Rationalism (Period Characteristics)
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Mostly comprised of philosophers, scientists, writing speeches and pamphlets
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Rationalism (Period Authors)
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Benjamin Franklin Thomas Paine Patrick Henry
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Romanticism (Period Characteristics)
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-Shunned the artificiality of civilization and seek unspoiled nature as a path to spirituality -Championed individual freedom and the worth of the individual. -Saw poetry as the highest expression of the imagination -Dark romantics: used dark and supernatural themes/settings (gothic style)
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Romanticism (Period Date & Name)
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1800-1860 industrialization war of 1812 California Gold Rush
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Romanticism (Period Author)
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Washington Irving Edgar Allan Poe
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Transcendentalism (Period Name)
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"the american renaissance"
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Transcendentalism (Period Date & Name)
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1840-1860 abolitionist Utopian women's suffrage movements
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Transcendentalism (Period Characteristic)
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self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and blind conformity to tradition
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Transcendentalism (Period Author)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (Nature, "Self Reliance") Henry David Thoreau Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)
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Realism (Period Characteristic)
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- feelings of disillusionment -represented the manner and environment of everyday life and ordinary people as realistically as possible
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Realism (Bit of Vocab)
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Venacular - the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in particular country or region.
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Realism (Period Date & Name)
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1850 -1900 civil war & reconstruction
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4 Realism (Period Author)
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mark twain, jack london, kate chopin
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Modernism (Period Characteristic)
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- sense of disillusionment and loss of faith in the american dream: the independence, self-reliant, individual will triumph - emphasis on both experimentation in style and form over the traditional - interest in the inner workings of the human mind
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Modernism (Period Date & Name)
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1900-1950 world war I the great depression world war II
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Modernism (Period Author)
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Loraine Hansberry (Raisin in the Sun). F. Scott Fitzgerald (Great Gatsby)
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Harlem Renaissance (Period Date & Name)
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1920-1940 The Jazz Age The Roaring 20's
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Harlem Renaissance (Period Characteristic)
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-black cultural movement in harlem, ny -some poetry rhythms based on spirituals, jazz, lyrics on the blues, and diction from the street talk of the ghettos -other poetry used conventional lyrical forms
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Harlem Renaissance (Period Characteristic)
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-The New Negro Movement -Prohibition
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Harlem Renaissance (Period Author)
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Langston Hughes
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Contemporary (Period Date & Name)
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1950- PRESENT "post modernism"
