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| 260718731 | First Literature, Focus on nature and creation stories, reverence for nature as a spiritual mother, reflected religious beliefs, political systems, and social values | Native American Liturature/Historical context | |
| 260718732 | Communicated orally; myths, legends, tales of tricksters and heroes, chants, lyrics;emphasizes importance of living in harmony with natural world;human beings have a kinship with animals, plants, the land, heavenly bodies, adn the elements;human and non-humans are seen as parts of a sacred whole. | Genre/Style of native american literature | |
| 260718733 | Products of the reformation and renaissance;religion dominated lives and writings, everything was a message from god, believed in hard-work and simple, no frills living; read and reread the bible | puritans and pilgrims | |
| 260718734 | came as official members of church of england, extreme reformists | puritans | |
| 260718735 | known as seperatists | pilgrims | |
| 260718736 | sermons, diaries, personal narrative, slave narratives, poetry;instructive, plain style | genre/style of the Enlightenment | |
| 260718737 | Founded Jamestown in 1607; described the country as paradise, known as an adventurer;writer; difficult; somewhat of a braggart | John Smith | |
| 260718738 | General Historie of Virginia; Pocahontas Legend | John Smith | |
| 260718739 | gave the group the name of pilgrims, intended to land in virginia but landed on tip of cape cod; wife jumped overboard; part of writing the mayflower compact; elected governor of plymouth. | william bradford | |
| 260718740 | "Of Plymouth Plantation" | William Bradford | |
| 260718741 | first published American poet; used conceits; brother-in-law took verses nad published them under the title "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America"; modest and somewhat embarrassed. | Anne Bradstreet | |
| 260718742 | "To my dear and loving husband"; "Upon the burning of this house"; "The Flesh and the Spirit"; "The Author To Her Book" | Anne Bradstreet | |
| 260718743 | clergyman, minister; [pems unheard until 1930 when discovred at Yale library; wrote conceits in the style of metaphysical poetry; examined inner self-commune with god; asks help from God to glorify God. | Edward Taylor | |
| 260718744 | "Huswifery"; "Upon a Spider Catching a Fly" | Edward Taylor | |
| 260718745 | lectured classmates on their sins; had 15 children, only 2 survived; two wives died; last wife went insane; unceasing writer with over 500 books and pamphlets. | Cotton Mather | |
| 260718746 | "Magnelia Christi Americana"; "The Wonders of the Invisible World" | Cotton Mather | |
| 260718747 | viewed god as punitive and distant; viewed man as basically evil; believed that he communicated directly with god; his sermons sent "whole congregations into hysterical fits of weeping" | Jonathan Edwards | |
| 260718748 | "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God" | Jonathan Edwards | |
| 260718749 | Tried to tell men to look to reason; influenced by American Revolution against britian; military victory fanned nationalistic hopes for new literature; writers had genuine patriotism but were self-conscious; writers born and raised in england led to literary imiation; writing did not pay, no modern publishers, no audience, no adequate legal protection; Franklin started pirating of great European books; Copyright Law of 1790 protected American writers only. | Age of Reason | |
| 260718750 | Political pamphlets, essays, travel writing, speeches, documents; instructive in values, highly ornate style of writing; | Genre/ style of the Age of Reason | |
| 260718751 | writer, printer, publisher, scientist, philanthropist, diplomat; most famous/respected figure of his time; first great self-made man, second generation immigrant; taught self languages, widely read; well known for aphorisms: "Hastes makes Waste", "Early to Bed, Early to rise.....", "a small leak will sink a great ship"; never lost democratic sensibility | Benjamin Franklin | |
| 260718752 | Autobiography, Poor Richard's Almanac | Benjamin Franklin | |
| 260718753 | gave Europeans a glowing idea of opportunities for wealth, peace, and pride in america; first to exploit "melting pot" image of america | Hector St. John De Crevecoeur | |
| 260718754 | "letters from an american farmer" (series of 12 letters) | Hector St. John De Crevecoeur | |
| 260718755 | read aloud in public to excite audiences; soldiers read them in camps/trenches; inspired declaration of independence | Thomas Paine | |
| 260718756 | "common sense"; "The American Crisis" | Thomas Paine | |
| 260718757 | considered finest writer of era | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 260718758 | Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 260718759 | fiery orator and voice of protest | Patrick Henry | |
| 260718760 | "Speech in the Virginia Convention" | Patrick Henry | |
| 260718761 | View of man as a man of reason; regarded man as a limited creature whose understanding was adequate to explore the infinite | neoclassicism | |
| 260718762 | incorporated new stirrings of European Romanticism; embraced liberal and democratic causes; revolutionary militiaman, captured by british, almost died, stimulating works of condemning cruelties of british; "Father of Poetry"; good transition between neoclassical and romanticism; thomas jefferson helped him establish the militant anti-federalist national gazette in 1791; became the first powerful, crusading newspaper editor in america | Philip Frenau | |
| 260718763 | first american writer of imaginative literature to international fame; took ideas from german literature; witty, poor student, but well-read, youngest of 11 children in wealthy family; took the satirical writings of 18th century and spoofed the writings of his own time; early works displayed neoclassical pleasure in the comic qualities of life; work reflected shift in american literature from rationalism to sentimental romanticism; also major writer of romanticism | Washington Irving | |
| 260718764 | The legend of Sleepy Hollow; Rip Van Winkle | Washington Irving | |
| 260718765 | never saw frontier, yet writings focused on it, wrote sea novels, people disliked his work; created typical characters; grew up in luxurious mansion, expelled from yale, inherited money, went broke, began writing. | James Fenimore Cooper | |
| 260718766 | "The Leather Stocking Tales" | James Fenimore Cooper | |
| 260718767 | first african american writer of importance; born in africa, brought to america at 7, at 13 showed signs of great poet; materical came from bible and public events; worked use to prove blacks were not inferior to whites; characteristic of neoclassicism; nicknamed "The Sable Muse" in London | Phillis Wheatly | |
| 260718768 | "To S. M., A young african painter on seeing his works"; "On Being brought from africa to america" | Phillis Wheatly | |
| 260718769 | Expansion of book publishing, magazines, newspapers; industrial revolution; abolitionist movement | Romanticism | |
| 260718770 | Short stories, novels, poetry; imagination over reason, intuition over fact; focused on fantastic of human experience; focused on inner feelingsl self and nature were one, self-awareness; Gothic Literature | Genre/style of romanticism | |
| 260718771 | use of supernatural; characters with both good and evil, dark landscapes/depressed characters | Gothic Literature | |
| 260718772 | sent radical individualism to the extreme; hero typically faced risk or destruction in pursuit of metaphysical self-discovery | Transcendentalism | |
| 260718773 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walk Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson | Transcendentalists | |
| 260718774 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Major Writer of Romanticism | |
| 260718775 | Edgar Allen Poe | Major Writer of Romanticism | |
| 260718776 | Moby Dick | Herman Melbille | |
| 260718777 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
| 260718778 | First American Romantic Poet whose works include "Thanatopsis" | William Cullen Bryant |