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Week Five Content Outline

Learning outcomes

• ANALYZE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE WITHIN THE AMERICAN NOVEL USING APPROPRIATE TERMS AND CONCEPTS.

• Describe the major themes present in the American novel.

• Describe the relationship between the American novel and American culture.

Content outline

1. MAJOR THEMES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

a. The rise and decline of the American dream

b. The idealization of the rich, the adult, and the civilized

c. The superficiality of the things people value

d. Individualism and self-identity

e. The importance of community

f. The pursuit of wealth

g. Westward expansion

h. Patriotism and the meaning of freedom

i. Gender

j. Race or ethnicity

k. Freedom and liberty

l. Religion or faith

m. Authority

n. From innocence to awareness

o. Heroism

p. The role of community

q. Social responsibility

r. Man’s relationship to nature

s. Man and nature

t. Self-reliance

1. American literary movements

a. Enlightenment (1715–1789)

b. Gothic (1764–1820)

c. Romanticism (1825–1865)

d. Transcendentalism (1835–1860)

e. Realism (1865–1910)

f. Modernism (1890–1940)

g. Naturalism (1893–1914)

h. Lost Generation (1920–1930)

i. Harlem Renaissance (1923–1940s)

j. Beat Generation (1950s–1960s)

k. Post-Modernism (1940s–present day)

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