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- CLASS ID 11454535
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Agenda:
Literary Eras
Individual authors negotiate and bend/transition through these styles (learning about the ways authors negotiate these categories is one of the learning outcomes in this class). These are resources you may want to refer to when you are working on your final papers.
- Romanticism: characterized by sentimentality (educating through feeling). It is an artistic era associated with the first half of the nineteenth-century.
- In the United States, transcendentalism is often merged with a part of the transatlantic romantic movement.
- Romanticism is often associated with British (and European) authors such as Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley. However, American authors such as Edgar Allan Poe were often classified as Romantics.
- American transcendentalism is a home-grown American literary tradition that is also considered an off-shoot of Romanticism.
- Realism: characterized by a sense of pragmatism - attempts to see the world realistically (often includes satire and social critique).
- Naturalism
- Modernism
- Post-Modernism
Regional Literary Styles
Regional literary styles may reflect large geographic eras or small localities. This course is organized by regions!
- West/Southwest
- East/Northeast
- South
Heroic Narratives and Manifest Destiny in the American West
Manifest Destiny is a term for the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast. This attitude helped fuel western settlement, Native American removal and war with Mexico. The phrase was first employed by John L. O’Sullivan in an article on the annexation of Texas published in the July-August 1845 edition of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, which he edited. (History.com)
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