Literary Periods: American Literature – Flashcards
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1607-1765
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Colonial Period (ends with the Stamp Act and not much belle letters or imaginative works)
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1765-1830
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Revolutionary and Early National Period
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1765-1790
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Revolutionary Age (within Revolutionary and Early National Period)
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1790-1830
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Federalist Age (within Revolutionary and Early National Period)
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1830-1865
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Romantic Period
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1865-1900
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Realistic Period (end of the civil war, pragmatism, cynical + critical)
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1900-1930
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Naturalistic and Symbolistic Period
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1930-1960
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Period of Conformity and Criticism (Great Depression, WW2 - no more radicalism after WW2, Cold War. New criticism within era)
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1960
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Period of Confessional Self
