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American Literature History - Coggle Diagram
American Literature History
The Colonial and Early National Period
(17th century -1830)
Writing about their experiences in the 1600s
The Romantic Period (1830-18700)
Industrialization War of 1812 California Gold Rush
Saw poetry as the highest expression of imagination
Idealism and Inductive reasoning
Placed faith in inner experience and the power of imagination
The Civil War Reconstruction
(1850 -1900)
Realism and Naturalism (1870 to 1910)
Key authors: Jack London ( Call of the Wild), ( To build a fire)
Kate Chopin (Story of an Hour),...
World War I
The Modernist period (1910 to 1945)
Modernist in general rebelled against clear-cut storytelling and formulaic verse from the 19th century
Based on a vision of human life and society and beliefs in progress or looking forward
The "Roaring Twenties" - a direct result of Modernist view
The Civil War
The Contemporary period (1945 to present)
New literary forms and techniques
Influenced by the development of media, language and information technologies
Key authors: Alice Walker, Wallace Stevens,...