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American Literature 2020-2021: Timeline of ReadingsNote: Dates are basic guidelines. Works are not limited by dates but defined more by subject matter…. Items in red we have not read by 22 February 2021Puritan AgeWritings often reflect on GodBradstreet “To My Dear and Loving Husband”1600sShow a belief in original sin or“Verses Upon the Burning of Our House…1666”PredestinationImagine Dragons “Demons”Age of ReasonLogical cause/effect writingWheatley“To S.M.”1700sPolitical writingJeffersonThe Declaration of IndependencePersuasive writingPaineThe Crisis, No. 1Refers to the ClassicsMadisonThe ConstitutionClassical/NeoclassicalAdams“Remember the Ladies” letter to her husbandFranklinThe AutobiographyRomanticismDescriptive/imaginative writingPoeShort Stories1800sStory-telling/suspenseIrving“Rip van Winkle” “Legend of Sleepy Hollow”Dark Romanticism vs.MelvilleMoby DickTranscendentalismEmersonNature, “Self-Reliance”Importance of the individualThoreauWaldenImportance of emotions/nature/ArmisteadBeing Henry Davidthe sublimeLawrence/LeeThe Night Thoreau Spent in JailYouTubeThundersnow and Double RainbowsRealismGives a glimpse into how anotherChopin“A Pair of Silk Stockings”1850-1910experiences life in order to bringBruchac“Ellis Island”About awareness or social changeHansberryA Raisin in the Sun*Women’s experience MurrayBreaking Night*African American experienceErdrich“The Red Convertible” *Native American experienceWalls“Desert”*Mixed ancestry experienceBurks Runs with Horses*Poverty*Veterans’ experiencesModernism/Disillusionment/FragmentationFitzgeraldThe Great GatsbyPost-ModernismIsolation/Sense of LossMillerThe Crucible1910-1960Time is often cyclical SalingerThe Catcher in the Rye(man repeats failures @ generation)Harlem Renaissance/Modernism Poetry Selections ................
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