Fall Semester Review

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Fall Semester Review
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Early American Literature
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The Puritans

• Puritan work ethic
• 3 main beliefs
• -people should believe in God
• -be literate
• -self-sufficient
• Great Conflict Great Divide
• deism belief in God, based on reason

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The Founding Fathers

• American Dream
• Influenced by English Philosopher
• -Natural Rights
• Jefferson, Franklin, Henry, Paine

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American
Romanticism
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American Romanticism
guilt
Puritan ideals
Equality
Freedom
salvation
Passion
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• Imagination, spontaneity, beauty, patriotism
• escape dull realities life
• -exotic settings
• -nature
• fireside poets
• Romantic Hero

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• Journey towards nature freedom
• of the imagination
• ?romantics wanted to rise above dull realities of
  life to a higher truth
• searched for exotic settings
• wanted to move away from dull realities of life
  
• find the underlying beauty truth

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American Renaissance
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• Renaissance flowering, excitement over human
  possibilities, high regard for individual ego
• Writers of American Renaissance struggled to
  understand what American meantespecially in
  terms of literature
• questioned their identity place in society

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• viewed nature as a doorway to the mystical world
  holding all truths
• Lyceum Movement
• Transcendental Club

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Subject / Predicate

• Many American citizens believe that the American
  Dream is an elusive concept.
• Eleven movies by Steven Spielberg were recently
  released.
• Many seniors choose not to take two electives
  during their senior year.