#Periods in American Literature

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Periods of American literature 16 ah seven to 1776, colonial period 1765, to 1790, the revolution
revolutionary age 75 to 1828, the early national period 1828 to 1865, the romantic period also known as
the American Renaissance or the age of transcendentalism 1865 to 1900 the realistic period 1900 to 1914
the naturalistic period 19 to 1939 American modernist period 1920 S jazz age Harlem Renaissance 1920
S 1930 S the lost generation 1939 present the contemporary period 1950 S beat triters 1960 S 1970 S
counterculture. In addition, American literature recognizes works of African American writers, native
American writers, Asian American writers, the colonial period of American literature spans the time
between the founding of the first settlement at Jamestown to the outbreak of the revolution, the writings
of this time centred on religious, practical or historical themes. The most influential writers of the colonial
period include John Winthrop, cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin and Anne bradre. During the
revolutionary age 1765 to 1790, some of the greatest documents of American history were authored in 76.
Thomas payorthered common sense and Thomas Jefferson wrote the declaration of independence in
1781. The articles of Confederation were ratified between 1787 and 1788. Alexander Hamilton, James
Madison and John J wrote the federalist papers. Finally, in 1787, the Constitution of the United States
was drafted and 89 it was ratified. The early national period of American literature saw the beginnings of
literature that could be truly identified as American the writers of this new American literature wrote in
the English style, but the settings, themes and characters were authentically American in addition, poets
of this time wrote poetry that was relatively independent of English precursors. Three of the most
recognised writers of this time are Washington Irving, James fenymore Cooper and Edgar Allen PO. The
period 1828 to 1865 in American literature is commonly identified as the romantic period in America, but
may also be referred to as the American Renaissance or the age of transcendentalism. The writers of this
period produced works of originality and excellence that helped shape the idea. Ideals and literary aims of
many American writers. Writers of the American romantic period include Ralph Waldo, Emerson, Henry,
David thoro, Edgar Allen, PO, Herman Melville, Nathaniel hawthor, Harriet Beecher, Stow, Henry
watsworth, longfellow, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. Following the civil war, American literature
entered into the realistic period. The major form of literature produced in this era was realistic fiction.
Unlike romantic fiction, realistic fiction aims to represent life as it really is, and make the reader believe
that the characters actually might exist and the situations might actually happen in order to have this
effect on the reader. Realistic fiction focuses on the ordinary and commonplace. The major writers of the
realistic period include marked Wayne Henry, James, Brett Hart and Kate Chopin. The years 1900 to
1914 mark American literature's naturalistic period naturalism claims to give an even more accurate
depiction of life than realism in accordance with a post-darwinian thesis naturalistic writers hold that the
characters of their works are merely higher order animals whose character and behaviour is entirely based
upon heredity and environment naturalistic writings try to present subjects with scientific objectivity these
writings are often Frank, crude and tragic. Stephen Crane, Jack London and Theodore drece are rather
most studied American naturalists between one 14 and 1939. American literature entered into a phase
which is still referred to as the beginnings of modern literature, like their British counterparts, the
American modernists experimented with subject matter, form and style, and produced achievements in all
literary genres. Some well known American modernist poets include Robert Frost, William Carlos
Williams, Edna Saint Vincent millai and E. E. Cummings. Included among American modernist prose
writers are Edith Warton, Sinclair, Lewis and Willa Cather. The American modernist period also
produced many other writers that are considered to be writers of modernist period sub classes, for
example, F Scott Fitzgerald is considered a writer of the jazz age, Langston Hughes and W E B. Dubois,
writers of the Harlem Renaissance and Gertrude Stein t S Eliot as repound and Ernest Hemingway,
writers of the lost generation, the great depression marked the end of the American modernist period, and
writers such as William fakner, John Stein Beck and Eugene O'Neill dealt with the social and political
issues of the time in their literary works 1939 marked the beginning of the contemporary period of
American literature this period includes an abundance of important American literary figures spanning
from world war ii into the new millennium. These writers include, but are not limited to udora Wey, John
Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Sylvia Plath, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, ral fellllson, Gwendolyn
brooks, zoorraneil Hurston, Alice Walker, Tony Morrison and mayovangeou. During the 1950 S, a
vigorous anti-establishment, and anti-traditional literary movement emerged, the main writers of this
movement, Alan Ginsburg and Jack keroak, are called beat writers, much writing of the 1960 S and 1970
S, referred to as counterculture writing, continued the literary ideals of the beat movement, but in a more
extreme and fevered manner. Currently, the contemporary American literary scene is crowded and varied
with the passage of time. The contemporary period may be reorganised and or expanded in the future.
Will write as such as an rice. John Grisham or Amy Dan be included in the Canon of American literature.
We will just have to wait and see.
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