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Annotated Timeline of The American Literary Movement English III

Overview Puritan/Colonial (1650-1750) Revolutionary/Age of Reason (1750-1800) Romanticism (1800-1860) American Renaissance/ Transcendentalism (1840-1860) Realism (1855-1900) The Moderns (1900-1950) Harlem Renaissance (1920s) Post-Modernism (1950 to present) Contemporary (1970s-Present)

Puritan/Colonial Period (1650-1750) OVERVIEW OF PURITAN/COLONIAL PERIOD. Genre/Style :Sermons, religious tracts, diaries, personal narratives, religious poems. It was written in plain style. Effect/Aspects :Instructive, reinforces authority of the Bible and the church. Very little imaginative literature was produced. Historical Context :Puritan settlers fled England where they were being persecuted for their religious beliefs, and came to New England to have religious freedom.

Puritan/Colonial Period (1650-1750) William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” Mary Rowlandson, “The Narrative Captivity…” Anne Bradstreet, poet Edward Taylor, poet

Enlightenment/Age of Reason (1750-1800) Overview of Revolutionary Period/Age of Reason Genre/Style :Political Pamphlets, Travel Writing, and highly ornate persuasive writing. Effect/Aspects :Patriotism and pride grows, creates unity about issues, and creates American character. Historical Context :Encouraged Revolutionary War support.

Revolutionary Period/Age of Reason (1750-1800) Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin, “practical yet idealistic, hard-working and enormously successful,” was a second-generation immigrant who lived in Boston Massachusetts. Writer, printer, publisher, scientist, philanthropist, and diplomat, Mr. Franklin was the most famous and respected private figure of his time. He was the first great self-made man in America, a poor democrat born in an aristocratic age that he helped to loosen up through his excellent example.

Romanticism (1800-1860) Overview of Romanticism Genre/Style :Character Sketches, Slave Narratives, Poetry, and short stories. Effect/Aspects :Integrity of nature and freedom of imagination. Historical Context :Publishing expands and industrial revolution brings new ideas.

Romanticism (1800-1860) Herman Melville Nathaniel Hawthorne Washington Irving Edgar Allan Poe

American Renaissance/ Transcendentalism (1840-1860) Overview of American Renaissance/Transcendentalism Genre/Style :Poetry, Short Stories, and Novels. Effect/Aspects :Idealists, individualism, and symbolism. Historical Context :People still see stories of persecuted young girls forced apart from her true love.

Realism (1855-1900) Overview of Realism Genre/Style :Novels, Short Stories, Objective Narrator, and does not tell reader how to interpret the story. Effect/Aspects :Social and Aesthetic realism. Historical Context :Civil War brought demand for a more true type of literature.

The Moderns (1900-1950) Overview of The Moderns Genre/Style :Novels, Plays, Poetry, experiments in writing styles, interior monologue, and stream of consciousness. Effect/Aspects :Pursuit of American Dream, Admiration for America, Optimism, and Individual Importance. Historical Context :Writers reflected the ideas of Darwin and Karl Marx, during WWI and WWII.

Harlem Renaissance (1920s) Overview of Harlem Renaissance Genre/Style :Blues Song in Poetry and African American Spirituals. Effect/Aspects :Brought about Gospel Music. Historical Context :Mass African American Migration to Northern Urban Centers. African Americans are given more access to media and publishing.

Post-Modernism (1950 to present) Overview of Post Modernism Genre/Style :Mixing of fantasy with nonfiction blurred lines of reality for reader, there were no heroes, humorless, narratives, present tense, and magic realism. Effect/Aspects :Grinds down the distinctions between the classes of people. Historical Context :After WWII prosperity.

Contemporary Period (1970s-Present) Overview of Contemporary Period Genre/Style :Narrative, fiction, nonfiction, anti heroes, emotional, irony, storytelling, autobiographical, and essays. Effect/Aspects :Shift in emphasis from homogeneity to celebrating diversity. Historical Context :New century, new millennium.

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