American Literature Timeline
Category: Altro
è stato aggiornato: 28 feb 2020
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Created byJoycelyn Roberts
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Colonial Literature
- Characteristics
- Didactic tone and message
- “Meditations” on religion and god
- Focus on daily life events mixed with
religion
- Mary Rowlandson (1637-January 5, 1711)
- (1682) A Narrative of the Captivity and
Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
- Anne Bradstreet (March 20, 1612-September 16, 1672)
- (1666) Verses upon the Burning of our
House
- Jonathon Edwards (October 5, 1703-March 22, 1758)
- (1741) Sinners in the Hands of anAmerican Romanticism
- Characteristics
- Emphasis on self over society
- Values feeling over reasoning
- Exploration of the imagination
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804-May 19,
1864)
- (1835) Young Goodman Brown
- Herman Melville (August 1, 1819-September
28, 1891)
- (1866) The Martyr
- Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830-May 15,
1886)
- (1891) "Hope" is the thing with feathersTranscendentalism
- Characteristics
- Appreciation for the beauty of nature
- Belief that people are inherently “good”
- Individualism
- Justifies the use of intuition when reasoning
- Criticizes war and government
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803-April 27,
1882)
- (1841) Self-Reliance
- Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817-May 6,
1862)
- (1840-1844) Away! Away! Away! Away!
- Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819-March 26, 1892)
- (1868) A Noiseless Patient SpiderRevolutionary Literature
- Characteristics
- Argumentative/persuasive writing style
- Patriotism
- Encourages pride in colony
accomplishments, which could lead to
anticipated nationalism
- Focus on values
- Remember colonial literature?
- Character building instruction
- Phillis Wheatley (May 8, 1753-December 5,
1784)
- (1773) Poems on Various Subjects, Religious
and Moral
- Mercy Otis Warren (September 14, 1728-
October 19,1814)
Gothic Literature
- Characteristics
- Fixation on death and insanity
- Exploration of the mind reflected in the use
of language
- Supernatural elements
scary/dark settings and plot
- Characters that act on emotional impulse
- Mary Shelley (August 30, 1797-February 1,
1851)
- (1823) Frankenstein
-Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809-October 7,
1849)
- (1845) The Raven
- Bram Stoker (November 8, 1847-April 20, 1912)
- (1897) Dracula
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