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| Emphasis on the sacredness of nature and the connection shared w/ nature. Mostly oral stories. |
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| Featured the Plain Style (plain, non-metamorphic, direct) in reacion to the flowery language of European contemporaries like Shakespeare. They focused almost exclusively on God-looking for earthly signs of salvation (predestination) in the world around them. Authors include Bradstreet, Taylor, and Edwards. |
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| The Age of Enlightenment was in many ways a secular type of Protestant Reformation. Artists and authors attempted to scrutinize secular traditions in order to reform them. Authors include Frankiln, Jefferson, and Wheatley. |
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| A general term used to describe a literary style that is not concerned with portraying life accurately. Instead, they may emphasize emotion, imagination, natural beauty, sentiment, heroic actions, etc. Authors: Hawthorne, Irving, Dickinson, Whitman, and Poe. |
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| A lit movement which developed from Romanticism. Building of Romantics, this movement emphasized the idea that God was present in all things. God was a part of nature and part of each individual. They believed, therefore, there was no evil. Bc of this, they often emphasized the power of the individual. OVERSOUL!!! Authors: Emerson and Thoreau. |
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| A lit movement which developed out of Romanticism. They believed in the limitations and potential corruptibility of humanity. Nature is dangerous, destructive, and unconcerned with humanity. Humans= flawed and corrupt. Authors: Hawthorne and Melville. |
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| A lit movement generally viewed as a reaction to Romanticism. Slice of life and real. Wrote about common people in everyday life as a reaction to the Romantics. Authors: Twain, Masters, London, Robinson, Dunbar, and Chopin. |
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| A lit sub movement of Realism. Emphasized the negative influence of the social environment and dwelling on the accompanying shortcomings of human beings. Written in 3rd person, and nameless characters. Authors: London and Crane. |
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| A lit sub movement of Realism. Writing is drawn from materials from a certain geographical area. Distsinct culture of the area: speech, customs, landscape, and history. The author provides a sociological and anthropological picture of people in a particular part, region, or race. Authors: Cather, Jewett, London, Chopin, Twain, Robinson, and Masters. |
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