American Literature Periods and Authors

Writers and their works categorized by time periods in american literature

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Cards In This Set

Front Back
William Bradford, The Mayflower CompactAnne BradstreetWilliam Byrd, A History of the Dividing Line
The Colonial Period
Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia HouseGeorge Washington, Farewell to the Army of the Potomac
The Revolutionary Period
Washington Irving, Rip Van WinkleNathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet LetterEdgar Allen Poe, "The Raven"Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Romantics
Ralph Waldo EmersonHenry David Thoreau, Walden
Transcendentalist
Walt Whitman, Leaves of GrassMark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnUpton Sinclair, The Jungle
Realism
Jack London, The Call of the WildStephan Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
Naturalism
Walt WhitmanEmily Dickinson
Transition between Romanticism and Realism
T.S. Elliot, The WastelandEzra Pound, CantosErnest Hemingway, Sound and the FuryF. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Modernism
Don Delello, White NoiseJoseph Heller, Catch 22Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
Post Modernism