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    TIMELINE of American literature Native American literature characteristics: Communicated orally Myths, legends, chants Focus on nature Creation stories Ritualistic (healing, planting / harvesting, purification, hunting) Examples: How the World Was Made (cheyenne) The Coming of Corn (mikasuki) Night Chant Age of Faith (1607-1750) + Age of Reason ( 1750-1800) = Enlightenment (1607-1800)

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    Timeline AE Literature

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    TIMELINE of American literature Native American literature characteristics: Communicated orally Myths, legends, chants Focus on nature Creation stories Ritualistic (healing, planting / harvesting, purification, hunting) Examples: How the World Was Made (cheyenne) The Coming of Corn (mikasuki) Night Chant Age of Faith (1607-1750) + Age of Reason ( 1750-1800) = Enlightenment (1607-1800)

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    TIMELINE of American Literature

    Native American Literature Æ Age of Faith (1607-1750) + Age of Reason ( 1750-1800) = Enlightenment (1607-1800) Æ Romanticism (1800-1855)

    Characteristics of Indian I. Historical Context: I. Historical context: I. Historical context:


    Literature: • Puritans and Pilgrims • American Revolution • Expansion of book
    • Communicated orally • Separated from Anglican • Growth of patriotism publishing, magazines,
    • Myths, legends, chants church of England • Development of American newspapers
    • Focus on nature • Religion dominates lives and character/democracy • Industrial revolution
    • Creation stories writings • Use of reason as opposed to • Abolitionist movement
    • Ritualistic (healing, • Work ethic: belief in hard faith alone II. Genre/Style:
    initiation, planting work and simple living II. Genre/Style: • Short stories, novels, poetry
    /harvesting, purification, II. Genre/Style: • Political pamphlets, essays, • Imagination over reason
    hunting) • Sermons, diaries, personal travel writing, speeches, • Intuition over facts
    Examples: narratives, slave narratives documents • Focus on the fantastic of
    • How the World Was Made • Instructive • Instructive human experience
    (Cheyenne) • Plain style • Highly ornate writing style • Focus on inner feelings
    • The Coming of Corn III. Major writers: III. Major writers: • Gothic literature
    (Mikasuki) • Bradstreet, Taylor, Edwards, • Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, III. Major writers: Irving,
    • Night Chant Smith Paine Hawthorne, Poe, Melville

    Æ Transcendentalism (1840-1855) Æ Realism (1865-1915) Æ Modernism (1915-1945) Æ Contemporary (1945-present)

    Genre/Style: I. Historical context: I. Historical context: I. Historical context:


    • Stresses individualism, • Civil War brings demand for • Overwhelming technological • Media-saturated culture
    intuition, nature, self-reliance ‘truer’ type of literature that changes • Post WWII prosperity
    doesn’t idealize people or • World War I: first war of • Beginning of new century
    Major writers: places mass destruction and millennium
    • Ralph Waldo Emerson • People in society defined by • Grief over loss of past; fear • Social protest
    (“Nature,” “Self-Reliance”) class; materialism, ideas of of eroding traditions II. Genre/Style:
    • Henry David Thoreau Darwin and Marx • Rise of youth culture • reality blurred, mix of fantasy
    (“Walden,” “Civil II. Genre/Style: II. Genre/Style: and non-fiction, no heroes/
    Disobedience”) • Realism, naturalism, novels, • Dominant mood: aliena- anti-heroes, individual in
    • Whitman, Dickinson, short stories, aims to change tion/disconnection, writing isolation, detached,
    Longfellow, Bryant, Holmes, social problem, themes: experimental: use of stream unemotional, humorless
    Lowell, Dunbar, Robinson survival, fate, violence, of consciousness, interior • Emergence of ethnic and
    nature as an indifferent force dialogue, unique styles women writers
    III. Major writers: Beecher Stowe, III. Major writers: Steinbeck, III. Major writers: Kerouac,
    Douglas, Twain, Crane, London Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner Ginsberg, Salinger, Ellison, Angelou,

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