Literary Movements

This movement is more about how insignificant man is in the face of nature.

Colloquial speech is noted with this movement, and the characters.

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter

Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography and Poor Richard’s Almanack

This movements encouraged self-reliance and non-conformity.

Determinism and pessimism are chief characteristics of this literary movement

Chief characteristics of this movement include a rational approach to the world

Religion was the major influence .

Beat generation writers focused on spontaneity and opposition to conformity.

The writers in this movement expressed passive resistance to governmental injustice

Writers during this time found their voice and expressed thoughts concerning slavery.

Dramatists focused on psychological aspects of character and the loss of the American Dream

This movement is more about how insignificant man is in the face of nature

Most Puritans would have agreed that America was “the promised land”

The writings that came out of this literary movement are some of America’s treaures

Washington Irving’s “The Devil and Tom Walker”

In the 1920s, the New York City neighborhood of Harlem became the artistic home

Characteristics of this movement include a focus on government and political injustice.

A characteristic of this movement was centered on reason.

During this period, we are mostly talking about oral narratives

John Updike’s “The Brown Chest”

A lack of paper (no printing press in the Americas)

The writings that came from this movement were not simply social castigation of inequality.

Characteristics of this literary movement include how the environment shapes character

Literature from this time period progressed towards Deism (God created the world)