American Literature 200708

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American Literature 2007-08

• Scope and Sequence

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Overview of Periods
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The Colonial Period
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Puritanism

• Authors include
• William Bradford
• Cotton Mather
• Jonathan Edwards
• Anne Bradstreet

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Nationalistic Period

• Celebrated Americas independence and the
  inception of the American dream began
• Authors include
• Patrick Henry
• Thomas Jefferson
• Benjamin Franklin

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Romanticism

• The Romantic era can be branched into three
  different philosophies
• The Romantics
• The Transcendentalists
• The Anti-transcendentalists

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The Romantics

• The Romantics included authors
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Washington Irving
• William Cullen Bryant

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The Transcendentalists
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The Anti-transcendentalists

• In strong opposition to beliefs of
  transcendentalists
• Authors include
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
• Herman Melville, Moby Dick

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Realism
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Modernism

• Authors include
• T.S. Eliot
• Ernest Hemmingway
• Gertrude Stein