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Term | Definition |
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The Puritan era | 1620-1750 Ben Franklin. A persons fate is determined by god. essays and poems that focused on spiritual and religious events. Tried to purify the church of England (religious war) |
Neoclassicism | 1750-1815 Thomas Paine made pamphlets. Focused on political issues through logic and Reason. American Revolution. |
Romanticism Trans | 1800-1865 Nathaniel Hawthorne. must transcend his or her body and go beyond the everyday human experience. Mexican American War. |
Realism | 1865-1914 Mark Twain. Simple language and the Character is more important than plot. Slavery was abolished after the civil war. |
Modernism | 1916-1946 Robert Frost. Meaning and purpose of human existence. WWI just ended. 1929 stock market crash. |
postmodernism | Tim O´Brien Non Traditional forms and Focused on non-conformity. Beatnik poetry. Vietnam war. The cold war. |
Romanticism Dark | Edgar Allen Poe. conflicts between good and evil, guilt and sin. Mexican American War. |