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LCC1- Revolutionary
Revolutionary Period
Question | Answer |
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Royall Tyler | The Contrast |
Thomas Paine | Common Sense, The American Crisis |
Thomas Jefferson | Notes on the State of Virginia |
Phyllis Wheatley | "To the University of Cambridge, in New England", Poems on Various Subjects, "On Being Brought from Africa to America" |
Benjamin Franklin | Poor Richard's Almanac, The Autobiography |
Washington Irving | The Sketch Book |
Susannah Rowson | Charlotte Temple |
William Hill Brown | The Power of Sympathy |
James Fenimore Cooper | The Spy |
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur | Letters from an American Farmer |
Charles Brockden Brown | Wieland |
Genres (Non-Fiction-Newspapers and periodicals) | o Articles that use satire to make judgments. Editorials on political subjects. Women writers emerge.Polemic style. |
Main TOPICS & Themes | Possibility of social mobility in a new nation. Stories of ordinary people and their communities. Enlightenment ideals of scientific inquiry, ‘human reason,’ and ‘mutual sympathy.’ Sentiment as a guiding principal.Idealism and common sense.‘Wit’ |
Historical Background | 1765-1830 |