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American Literature Timeline
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Joycelyn Roberts
⟶ Обновлено 28 фев 2020 ⟶
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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 an
American 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 feathers
Transcendentalism - 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 Spider
Revolutionary 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