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Purpose: Puritan/Colonial Literature
to inspire and instruct
Subjects: Puritan/Colonial Literature
the meaning of america and SELF TRANSFORMATION
Types: Puritan/Colonial Literature
sermons, religious poetry, diaries, histories
Tone: Puritan/Colonial Literature
religious, serious
Characteristics: Puritan/Colonial Literature
Manifest Denstiny, grace, religious
Authors: Puritan/Colonial Literature
John Smith, Jonathon Edwards
Purpose: Revolutionary Literature
to incite and inform
Subjects: Revolutionary Literature
science, ethics, government
Types: Revolutionary Literature
pamphlets, speeches, letters
Tone: Revolutionary Literature
patriotic
Characteristics: Revolutionary Literature
age of reason, decline of puritanism, new rationalism
Authors: Revolutionary Literature
Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry
Purpose: Romanticism
to entertain
Subjects: Romanticism
nature, the past, inner man
Types: Romanticism
novels, short stories, poems
Tone: Romanticism
Nationalistic
Characteristics: Romanticism
man's potential for goodness, individual, equality, intuition, superstition, American landscape
Authors: Romanticism
Irving, Cooper, Bryant, Poe
Purpose: Transcendentalism
to inspire and inform
Subjects: Transcendentalism
God, humanity, nature
Characteristics: Transcendentalism
man's innate goodness
Authors: Transcendentalism
Thoreau, Emerson
Subjects: Anti-Transcendentalism
man's evil, dark nature
Authors: Anti-Transcendentalism
Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Subjects: Realism
actualities of existance
Types: Realism
Regionalism, Naturalism
Characteristics: Realism
vernacular, social criticism, sentimental
Authors: Realism
Mark Twain
Purpose: Modern Literature
to emphasize mood and character
Authors: Modern Literature
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Characteristics: Classicism
upheld tradition, reason, social, common
Characteristics: Naturalism
life and characters limited by environment or heredity