Introduction to American Literature

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Introduction to American Literature 10 CP

6 Major Time Periods Beginnings to 1800 American Romanticism The American Renaissance Realism Modern Period Postmodern/Contemporary Period

1. Beginnings to 1800 Begins with Native American oral tradition Navajo Sioux

1. Beginnings to 1800 Puritan Literature William Bradford Mary Rowlandson

1. Beginnings to 1800 Colonial Literature Jonathon Edwards Benjamin Franklin

2. American Romanticism 1800-1860 Washington Irving William Cullen Bryant

2. American Romanticism 1800-1860 Gothic Literature Edgar Allan Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne Herman Melville

3. The American Renaissance 1840-1860 Emerson Thoreau

4. Realism 1850-1900 Mark Twain

5. Modern Period 1900-1950 F. Scott Fitzgerald John Steinbeck

5. Modern Period 1900-1950 The Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes Countee Cullen Zora Neale Hurston

6. Contemporary/Postmodern 1950-Present Elie Wiesel Tim O’Brien Toni Morrison Amy Tan

At Jefferson… We do not study literature in chronological order The units are grouped by the pillars of character We will begin with the pillar of Citizenship