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The Colonial and Early National Period pergaino, American Literarure, The…
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The Revolutionary Period
(1700–1800) 
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Characteristics
Politically, anti-British and revolutionary oriented
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Essays, speeches and pamphlets became more important
Puritans’ religious poetry fell out of favour as man was not considered naturally sinful any longer.
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The Period of Romanticism and Transcendentalism (1800–1880)
The topics were mostly American, and the writers stressed imagination, nature and individualism.
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Literary and artistic movement of the nineteenth century that arose in reaction against eighteenth-century Neoclassicism.
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Placed a premium on fancy, imagination, emotion, nature, individuality, and exotica
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Trasendentalism
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Divinity was present everywhere, in nature and in each person
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American Realism and Naturalism (1860–1930)
Realism
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Literature moves away from nature, spirituality, and creativity
Ugliness of war, poverty, and resulting sin
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Wiriters
Mark Twain (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and Adventures of Huckleberry )
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Naturalism
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