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The basic American literary breakdown for this class is as follows:
1. Encounters and Foundations _______N.A _to _____1800
-includes NATIVE AMERICAN, PURITAN
EXPLORERS, and REVOLTUOINARY writers.
2. Romanticism _______1800_ to _________1850 (60)
-includes ROMANTICS, TRANSCENDENTALISTS, DARK ROMANTICS,
and ANTI-TRANSCENDENTALISTS
3. American Masters (poetry of Romantic/Realist transition)
- Emily Dickinson + Walt Whitman
4. Realism – ____1861 (THE CIVIL WAR) to _________1914
-Includes ___SLAVE Narratives + Spirituals, _NATURALISM_,
Satire/Humor (Twain), Survival, _____FEMININE ASPECT_, + poetry
5. Modernism – ______1914_ to _____1939
-Includes “The Jazz Age” (Fitzgerald), “The Great Depression” (Steinbeck),
_GOTHIC__Literature, + poetry
6. Contemporary – _____1939__to ______PRESENT
-Includes __J.D. Salinger, _____ARTHUR Miller, short stories +
poetry.