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Colonial Period -- The 1600s “Of Plymouth Plantation” Bradford “The General History of Virginia” John Smith “The Wonders of the Invisible World” Cotton Mather The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America Bradstreet Early 1700s “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Edwards

Age of Revolution. Eugène Delacroix – Liberty Guiding the People

Aka --Age of Reason—Enlightenment – 1700s “Declaration of Independence”—Jefferson Common Sense--Paine “The Autobiography” Ben Franklin “The Interesting Narrative…” Olaudah Equiano Phillis Wheatley--poetry

Romantic. Asher Durand - Kindred Spirits

Romanticism Transcendentalists Emerson “Self Reliance”, Thoreau Walden Whitman Leaves of Grass Dickinson--poetry Gothic/anti- transcendentalists Hawthorne-- The Scarlett Letter Irving –Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon Poe—Tales of Mystery… Melville—Moby Dick

Realism. Honore Daumier’s Third Class Carriage

Realism. Winslow Homer's After the Hurricane

Realism/Naturalism 1865-World War I Stephan Crane—Red Badge of Courage Kate Chopin---The Awakening Mark Twain—The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Truth can be found in everyday events and experience.

Modernism. Edvard Munch’s The Scream

Modernism. Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory

Modernism. Picasso’s Guernica

Modernism (WW I—WWII) Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby Faulkner—The Sound and the Fury Steinbeck—The Grapes of Wrath ee cummings—poetry Robert Frost—poetry T. S. Eliot--poetry

Harlem Renaissance 1920s Langston Hughes—poetry Zora Neale Hurston—Their Eyes Were Watching God

Modernists’ Themes Alienation Isolation Non-communication Paranoia Paralysis

Post-Modernism. Jackson Pollock’s Full Fathom Five

Post-Modernism. Andy Warhol.

Post-Modernism (World War II-the present) Vonnegut—Cat’s Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five Heller—Catch 22 Salinger—Catcher in the Rye Poets—Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roethke, John Berrymen

Contemporary Alice Walker—The Color Purple Toni Morrison—Beloved, Song of Solomon Tim O’Brien—The Things They Carried Joyce Carol Oates, John Irving Poets—Sharon Olds, Billy Collins, Maya Angelou, Bob Dylan