1. Introduction to American Literature
10 CP

2. 6 Major Time Periods Beginnings to 1800 American Romanticism
The American Renaissance
Realism
Modern Period
Postmodern/Contemporary Period

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

4. 1. Beginnings to 1800 Puritan Literature William Bradford
Mary Rowlandson

5. 1. Beginnings to 1800 Colonial Literature Jonathon Edwards
Benjamin Franklin

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

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

8. 3. The American Renaissance 1840-1860
Emerson
Thoreau

9. 4. Realism
Mark Twain

10. 5. Modern Period
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Steinbeck

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

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

13. 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