By: Osool Kassim
&
Bianca Ramos
American Literature: The Progression of Literary Works
Modern Era Pictures
The Modern Era
Harlem Renaissance:
Started in 1916 and continued throughout the 1920’s. It was a literary, artistic, and a musical movement; African Americans became very creative and drew their own cultural resources. They celebrated their traditions and culture (Allen 871).
Feminism:
A movement for women’s rights. Women wanted equal opportunities as men had; as in, politics, work, education and social rights. Women also advocated for workplace rights, for example, maternity leave.
Modernism:
A movement in art, architecture, music, and literature; writers experimented with language, expressed human experiences, and poets experimented with stream of consciousness within a character’s thoughts and sensations. An author, named William Faulker, wrote The Sound and the Fury; it expressed human consciousness and psychological modernism.
Romanticism Pictures
American Romanticism
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American Gothics:
Also known as the "Brooding Romantics". They were Anti-Transcendentalists, who
disbelieved in the goodness of people. They explored the human capacity of evil, probed the inner life of characters, explored a character’s motivations. American Gothics agreed with the Romantics on emphasis of emotion, nature, and the individual;
this included elements of fantasies and the supernatural works (Allen 312).
Through 1800-1855, Romanticism celebrated the individual. It first emerged in Europe; Romantics looked to nature for inspiration. They celebrated emotions and imagination. Romantic writers wrote about the nation’s growth and human rights, and called for social reform.
Transcendentalists
A philosophical and literary movement that emphasized living a simple life and celebrating the truth found in nature and in personal emotion and imagination.
It stressed close relationship with nature, individualism, and self-reliance.
They encouraged spiritual well-being over financial well-being.
Puritanism Pictures
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Puritan Era
A religious movement that arose within the church of England. The Puritans worked through religious, moral, and social reform. They believed that the Bible told people how to live life and that God knew who was going to Heaven or Hell. In fact, they also believed that God blessed those who were wealthy. (Puritans.web. 21 May 2014.)
THE PURITAN DREAM OF A SHINING 'CITY UPON A HILL", A VISION OF A JUST AND PIOUS "NATION UNDER GOD" STILL REMAINS IN AMERICA TODAY. IT IS THE SPIRITUAL FOUNDATION OF WHAT HAS COME TO BE KNOWN AS "MANIFEST DESTINY"(Puritan Belief).