Colonial Period -- The 1600s

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Colonial Period -- The 1600s

• Of Plymouth Plantation Bradford
• The General History of Virginia John Smith
• The Wonders of the Invisible World Cotton
  Mather
• The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
  Bradstreet
• Early 1700s Sinners in the Hands of an Angry
  God Edwards

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Age of Revolution. Eugène Delacroix Liberty
Guiding the People
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Aka --Age of ReasonEnlightenment 1700s

• Declaration of IndependenceJefferson Common
  Sense--Paine
• The Autobiography Ben Franklin The
  Interesting Narrative Olaudah Equiano
• Phillis Wheatley--poetry

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Romantic. Asher Durand - Kindred Spirits
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Romanticism 1800-1865

• Gothic/anti-transcendentalists
• Hawthorne-- The Scarlett Letter Irving
  Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon
• PoeTales of Mystery
• MelvilleMoby Dick

• Transcendentalists
• Emerson Self Reliance, Thoreau Walden
• Whitman Leaves of Grass
• Dickinson--poetry

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Realism. Honore Daumiers Third Class Carriage
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Realism. Winslow Homer's After the Hurricane
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Realism/Naturalism1865-World War I

• Stephan CraneRed Badge of Courage
• Kate Chopin---The Awakening
• Mark TwainThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

• Truth can be found in everyday events and
  experience.

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Modernism. Edvard Munchs The Scream
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Modernism. Salvador Dali's The Persistence of
Memory
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Modernism. Picassos Guernica
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Modernism (WW IWWII)

• Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
• Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby
• FaulknerThe Sound and the Fury

• SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath
• ee cummingspoetry
• Robert Frostpoetry
• T. S. Eliot--poetry

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Harlem Renaissance 1920s

• Langston Hughespoetry
• Zora Neale HurstonTheir Eyes Were Watching God

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Modernists Themes

• Alienation
• Isolation
• Non-communication

• Paranoia
• Paralysis

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Post-Modernism. Jackson Pollocks Full Fathom
Five
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Post-Modernism. Andy Warhol.
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Post-Modernism(World War II-the present)

• VonnegutCats Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five
• HellerCatch 22
• SalingerCatcher in the Rye

• PoetsAllen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Theodore
  Roethke, John Berrymen

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Contemporary

• Alice WalkerThe Color Purple
• Toni MorrisonBeloved, Song of Solomon
• Tim OBrienThe Things They Carried
• Joyce Carol Oates, John Irving

• PoetsSharon Olds, Billy Collins, Maya Angelou,
  Bob Dylan