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Title: Introduction%20to%20American%20Literature


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Introduction to American Literature
  • 10 CP

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6 Major Time Periods
  1. Beginnings to 1800
  2. American Romanticism
  3. The American Renaissance
  4. Realism
  5. Modern Period
  6. 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

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

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2. American Romanticism1800-1860
  • Gothic Literature
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Herman Melville

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3. The American Renaissance1840-1860
  • Emerson
  • Thoreau

9
4. Realism1850-1900
  • Mark Twain

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5. Modern Period1900-1950
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • John Steinbeck

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5. Modern Period1900-1950
  • The Harlem Renaissance
  • Langston Hughes
  • Countee Cullen
  • Zora Neale Hurston

12
6. Contemporary/Postmodern1950-Present
  • Elie Wiesel
  • Tim OBrien
  • Toni Morrison
  • Amy Tan

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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
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