American Literature:
Arranged By Literary Movements
The Enlightenment: The 18th Century
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Key people:
Fredrick Douglas
Harriet Jacobs
Captivity Narratives:
1637
Colonial Poetry: 1637-1678 ( The 1600's)
Transcendentalism
The 1820's
Gothic Literature: 1839
Political Essays:
The 1830's
Key People: Anne Bradstreet
Key people:
Edgar Allen Poe
Key people: Mary Rowlandson
Key people:
Fredrick Douglas
Elias Boudinot
William Apess
Slave Narrative: 1861
Historical Fiction: 1826
Key people: James Fenimore Cooper
Key People: Harriet Jacobs
This was a time period where the way that people thought shifted. It shifted from a very religious standpoint to a more scientific standpoint.
One of the first types of poetry. History and Religion were key aspects in colonial poetry. Bradstreet used very self deprecating and paradoxical ways of writing.
These works take a stance on a topic, and make an argument on said topic.
Rethinking of historical events with a fictional plot
Influenced by European literature, often times the writing is dark, dreary and pessimistic. The writers will often times try to inflict or encapsulate some sort of psychological trauma
Written events of someones life, from the day they were captured ( or born into slavery) to the day they pass away or escape their captor and return home.
These works are very similar to slave narratives, as they follow a person through events such as being taken/ kidnapped, and they go through their lives living with their captors, and then ending with them mostly being released.
Important works: What to A Slave is The Fourth of July
Important works: Black Hawk
Cherokee Memorial
Important works: Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson
Important works: The fall of The House of Usher
Important works: The Prologue To My Dear and Loving Husband
Important works: Incidents in The Life of A Slave
Important works: The Last of The Mohicans
Key People Ralph Emmerson Henry Thoureau
The desire to be one with nature. A literary, political and philosophical shift in the way people were writing.
Important works: The Poet and Self-Reliance
Late 19th Century and Modernism Writing
This type of writing is characterized with a more self-conscious break in traditional ways of creating works, in both poetry and prose fiction.
Key People Beyonce Carmen Maria Machado
Important Works Sorry and Inventory