Term
| 15% The Colonial and Early National Period(Beginnings-1830) |
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Definition
Captain John Smith (1579-1631)
WILLIAM STRACHEY (1572-1621)
WILLIAM BRADFORD (1590-1657)
JOHN WINTHROP (1588-1649)
MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH (1631-1705)
ANNE BRADSTREET (1612-1672) |
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25% The Romantic Period
(1830-1870) |
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Definition
Hawthorne, Nathaniel(1804-1864)
Whitman, Walt(1819-1892)
Irving, Washington(1783-1859)
Twain, Mark(1835-1910)
Cooper, James Fenimore(1789-1851) |
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Term
| 20% The Period of Realism and Naturalism(1870-1910) |
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Definition
Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899 –1961)
Jack London
Stephen Crane
Kate Chopin
Mark Twain
Ambrose Bierce
Frederick Douglass |
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25% The Modernist Period
(1910-1945) |
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Definition
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
John Steinbeck
Katherine Anne Porter
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston |
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15% The Contemporary Period
(1945-Present) |
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Definition
Julia Alvarez
Stanley Kunitz
Alice Walker
Raymond Carver
N. Scott Momaday
Amy Tan |
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