1. SO FAR WE HAVE
COVERED……..

2. PURITANISM
EARLY AMERICAN SETTLERS STRICT CODE OF LIVING HUMANITY SINFUL BY NATURE LESS EVIL WHEN IN CHURCH OR WORKING MINISTERS ANOINTED BY GOD INDIVIDUALITY AND IMAGINATION WAS A REBELLION AGAINST GOD GOD WAS SUPREME/ NATURE WAS REFLECTION OF SATAN LITERATURE: SERMONS, POETRY

3. REVOLUTIONARY
REJECTED PURITANS’ OPINIONS ON INDIVIDUAL’S BELIEVED GOD MADE MAN TO REASON WAR FOR THE SAKE OF FREEDOM NATURE WAS AVAILABLE TO MAN’S USE LITERATURE: SPEECH EDITORIALS

4. ROMANTICISM
REACTION TO THE AGE OF REASON EMPHASISED IMAGINATION AND THE KEY TO INNER HUMAN SPIRIT (EMOTION) FOCUSED ON INDIVIDUALS CELEBRATED BEAUTY AND MYSTERY OF NATURE AS WELL AS THE SUPERNATURAL AND EXOTIC LITERATURE: SHORT STORIES, POETRY, NOVELS

5. TRANSCENDENTALISM
POPULAR NEW ENGLAND PHILOSOPHY—1830’S OFF SHOOT OF ROMANTICISM EMERSON THOREAU SPIRITUAL REALITY, RATHER THAN MATERIAL WEALTH ULTIMATE REALITY GAINED THROUGH NATURE LITERATURE: ESSAYS, POEMS, NOVELS

6. DARK ROMANTICS
GOOD VS EVIL PSHYCOLOGICAL DELIMMA GUILT OF SIN MYSTERIOUS DARK SETTINGS LITERATURE: POE, SHORT STORIES, NOVELS, POEMS

7. REALISM
DOMINATED AMERICAN FICTION FROM 1860’S THROUGH THE 1930’S WAR DRIVEN CHARACTERIZED BY ACCURACY AND TRUTH OF EXPERIENCES OFTEN A REJECTION OF ROMANTICISM LOCAL COLOR AND /OR REGIONALISM ARE KEY ELEMENTS IN LITERATURE

8. NATUALISM
INFLUENCED BY THEORIES OF DARWIN, FREUD, AND MARX WHICH SUGGESTED THAT SCIENCE PSYCHOLOGY ECONOMICS DETERMINED AN INDIVIDUALS DESTINY WRITERS CHARACTERIED THE UNIVERSE AS “COLD AND SPIRITLESS” WHERE MAN IS A “HAPLESS VICTIM” OF THE SCIENCES.