Periods of American Literature

Which period has such representative authors as Mark Twain, William Dean Howell, and Henry James.

Which period has writers such as Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, and James T. Ferrell?

Which period is characterized by focusing on historical events, daily life, moral attitudes?

Which period has such representative authors as Washington Irving, Emily Dickinson, and Ralph Waldo Emerson?

Which period is characterized by non traditional topics and structures, embraces changing reality?

Which period is characterized by a celebration of individualism, the beauty of nature, imagination, and introspection?

What period has such writers as F.Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner?

Which period is characterized by examining the truths of life, human frailty, and regional culture?

Which period has such writers as Norman Mailer, J.D. Salinger, and Kurt Vonnegut?

Which period is characterized by life viewed as a set of natural laws to be discovered?

Which period has such representative authors such as William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, and Jonathan Edwards?

Which period has such representative authors as Thomas Paine, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton.

Which period is characterized by oral tradition and celebrating the natural world.

Which period is characterized by themes of disconnectedness, experiments with new techniques making the reader work?

Which period is characterized by celebrating nationalism and patriotism and contains many political writing?