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Periods and Writers in American Literature

Periods and Writers in American Literature. 17 th -20 th Centuries. Colonial Period: 1600s (17 th Century). Captain John Smith: History of Virginia William Bradford: Of Plymouth Plantation Anne Bradstreet: 1 st Am. Poet Edward Taylor: “ Huswifery ”.

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Periods and Writers in American Literature

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  1. Periods and Writers in American Literature 17th -20th Centuries

  2. Colonial Period: 1600s (17th Century) • Captain John Smith: History of Virginia • William Bradford: Of Plymouth Plantation • Anne Bradstreet: 1st Am. Poet • Edward Taylor: “Huswifery”

  3. Revolutionary Period/Colonial: late 1700s (18th Century) • Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence • Thomas Paine: Age of Reason; “Common Sense”; “Crisis Papers” • Ben Franklin: The Autobiography • Patrick Henry: “Speech at Virginia Convention”

  4. Romantic Period (American Renaissance):mid 1800s/1840-1855 or mid 19th Century • Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature; Self-Reliance: “The American Scholar” • Henry David Thoreau: Walden • Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter; “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” • Herman Melville: Moby Dick • Edgar Allan Poe: “The Raven” • Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass

  5. Beginnings of Realism (The Gilded Age/late 1800s-post Civil War) • Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn • Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage • Kate Chopin: “Story of an Hour” • Sidney Lanier: “Marshes of Glynn” • Frederick Douglass: My Bondage and My Freedom

  6. Modern Period (1917-1945) • Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio • Ernest Hemingway: Old Man and the Sea • F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby • John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men • William Faulkner: Sound and the Fury • T. S. Eliot: “The Wasteland” • e. e. cummings: “Pity This Busy Monster Manunkind”

  7. Harlem Renaissance (part of Modern Period) • a flourish of African-American writing, music, and art in the borough of Harlem (1920s) in New York City

  8. Harlem Renaissance Writers: • Langston Hughes: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” • Richard Wright: Black Boy; Native Son • Countee Cullen: “Any Human to Another” • Claude McKay: “The Tropics in New York” • Jean Toomer: Cane • Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God

  9. Postmodern Period (Contemporary): Post WWII, late 20th Century • J. D. Salinger: Catcher in the Rye (1951) • Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 (1953) • Sandra Cisneros: House on Mango Street (1984) • Arthur Miller: The Crucible (1953) • Judith Guest: Ordinary People (1976) • ChaimPotok: The Chosen (1967)

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