COVERED……..

EARLY AMERICAN SETTLERS

STRICT CODE OF LIVING

HUMANITY SINFUL BY NATURE

LESS EVIL WHEN IN CHURCH OR WORKING

MINISTERS ANOINTED BY GOD

INDIVIDUALITY AND IMAGINATION WAS A REBELLION AGAINST GOD

GOD WAS SUPREME/ NATURE WAS REFLECTION OF SATAN

LITERATURE: SERMONS, POETRY

PURITANISM

REJECTED PURITANS’ OPINIONS ON INDIVIDUAL’S

BELIEVED GOD MADE MAN TO REASON WAR FOR THE SAKE OF FREEDOM

NATURE WAS AVAILABLE TO MAN’S USE

LITERATURE:SPEECH

EDITORIALS

REVOLUTIONARY

REACTION TO THE AGE OF REASONEMPHASISED IMAGINATION AND THE KEY TO

INNERHUMAN SPIRIT (EMOTION)FOCUSED ON INDIVIDUALS

CELEBRATED BEAUTY AND MYSTERY OF NATURE

AS WELL AS THESUPERNATURAL AND EXOTIC

LITERATURE: SHORT STORIES, POETRY, NOVELS

ROMANTICISM

POPULAR NEW ENGLAND PHILOSOPHY—1830’SOFF SHOOT OF ROMANTICISM

EMERSONTHOREAU

SPIRITUAL REALITY, RATHER THAN MATERIAL WEALTH

ULTIMATE REALITY GAINED THROUGH NATURELITERATURE: ESSAYS, POEMS, NOVELS

TRANSCENDENTALISM

GOOD VS EVILPSHYCOLOGICAL DELIMMA

GUILT OF SINMYSTERIOUS

DARK SETTINGS

LITERATURE: POE, SHORT STORIES, NOVELS, POEMS

DARK ROMANTICS

DOMINATED AMERICAN FICTION FROM 1860’S THROUGH THE 1930’S

WAR DRIVENCHARACTERIZED BY ACCURACY AND TRUTH OF

EXPERIENCESOFTEN A REJECTION OF ROMANTICISM

LOCAL COLOR AND /OR REGIONALISM ARE KEY ELEMENTS IN LITERATURE

REALISM

INFLUENCED BY THEORIES OF DARWIN, FREUD, AND MARX WHICH SUGGESTED THAT

SCIENCEPSYCHOLOGYECONOMICS

DETERMINED AN INDIVIDUALS DESTINYWRITERS CHARACTERIED THE UNIVERSE AS

“COLD AND SPIRITLESS” WHERE MAN IS A“HAPLESS VICTIM” OF THE SCIENCES.

NATUALISM