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- ERNEST HEMINGWAY
- MODERN PERIOD (1914-1939)Between WWI and WWII, works in British and American literature reflect shifting social, political, and cultural climates and are diverse, experimental, and unconventional. A period of disillusionment and confusion. During this time, the authors posed all of life's big questions...but provided no answers.
- F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
- LOST GENERATION WRITERS
- WILLIAM FAULKNER
- GERTRUDE STEIN
- FAMOUS LITERATURE:Hemingway's Cat in the Rain
- AMERICAN REALISM (1865-1900)The post Civil War period was an era of industrialization and migration where writings focused on describing life as it was with its negatives; rise of local color; novel became the famous genre. Though there were still elements of romanticism, this period was considered realistic in its emphasis on unidealized and truthful depictions.
- FAMOUS LITERATURE:Mark Twain's The Adventure of Tom Sawyer
- MARK TWAIN
- FREDERICK DOUGLASS
- HENRY JAMES
- JACK LONDON
- COLONIAL PERIOD (1607-1765)The Colonial period was dominated by Puritan beliefs and thus literature of this period is usually historical, religious, or didactic. The literature of this period comes to us in the forms of tracts, polemics, journals, narratives, sermons, and some poetry.
- AMERICAN NATURALISM (1900-1914)This period characterizes scientific detachment, determinism, pessimism, poverty and miserable circumstances, and an indifferent or hostile nature. The literature is composed of European writings describing the explorers' travels and impressions of the continent and its Native people.
- FAMOUS LITERATURE:MAYFLOWER COMPACT BY WILLIAM BRADFORD
- JOHN SMITH
- EDITH WHARTON
- STEPHEN CRANE
- ANNE BRADSTREET
- FAMOUS LITERATURE:Crane's The Red Badge of Courage
- WILLIAM BRADFORD
- REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD (1765 - 1790)The dissatisfaction with the colonial system and the relations with Britain grew; writers became more politically, anti-British and revolutionary oriented, rationalism and enlightenment prevailed.Also known as Period of Enlightenment(1750-1800) because there is a lack of emphasis and dependence on the Bible and more use of logic and science.
- FAMOUS LITERATURE:POOR RICHARD'S ALMANANCKBY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
- THOMAS PAINE
- THOMAS JEFFERSON
- ROMANTIC PERIOD (AMERICAN RENAISSANCE) (1828-1865)Romanticism was a nineteenth-century literary and artistic movement that originated in opposition to eighteenth-century Neoclassicism and emphasized fancy, imagination, passion, nature, individuality, and exotica.
- FAMOUS LITERATURE:SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE BY WILLIAM BLAKE
- SIR WALTER SCOTT
- WILLIAM BLAKE
- WILHELM VON SCHELEGEL
- AGE OF TRANSCENDENTALISM (1836-1860)The New England-based transcendentalists believe that intuition and individual consciences are greater guides to truth than the senses and logical reason because they "transcend" experience. The Fireside Poets wrote about more practical aspects of life such as dying and patriotism.
- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
- HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
- OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
- FAMOUS LITERATURE:Longfellow's Evangeline and Hiawatha, Whittier's Snow-bound
- JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
- JAMES RUSSEL LOWELL
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