Colonial America
This writer's 1682 autobiographical account sparked the popularity of the captivity narrative genre in the United States.
Who is Mary Rowlandson?
During this movement associated with philosophers like John Locke, religious worldviews were gradually replaced with knowledge based on experience, informing philosophical and scientific ideas.
What is the Enlightenment?
Critics of this type of fiction, which became popular in the period following the Civil War, complained it was too dull and lacked dramatic storytelling.
What is realist fiction?
This invention resulted in the road becoming a literary symbol of modernity.
This group of colonists wanted to continue ties with the Church of England while the Pilgrims sought to break them.
Who were The Massachusetts Bay Colony?
This Founding Father, whose autobiography was published in 1793, has been said to closely represent the ideals of the Enlightenment period.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
An expression of realism which emphasized particularities of geographic settings, evoking the distinct customs, speech, and culture of specific regions in the United States.
What is regionalism?
The perspective often used by modernist writers to add the sense of a constructed, as opposed to objective, reality.
What is first-person?
This Puritan leader's 1630 work A Model of Christian Charity called colonists to embrace the idea of “a city upon a hill.”
Who is John Winthrop?
The profession intended for Benjamin Franklin by his father.
What is a clergyman?
A related collection of international movements that challenged traditional authority
What is modernism?
This bill, which passed in 1944, made college accessible to lower-income families and sparked increased readership during the mid-twentieth century.
What is the GI Bill?
This practice enabled Puritans to read the Bible as forecasting events during their own time.
What is typology?
A characteristic of this religious movement was deduction of God from rational observations.
What is Deism?
The two events which demarcated the modernist era in American literature and culture.
During this period, which began in the early nineteenth century, women took an active role in the literary marketplace, publishing writing in the most popular magazines and newspapers.
What is the Antebellum Period?
The central doctrine of Puritanism.
What is the "Covenant of Grace"?
The form of writing which largely dominated the late eighteenth century in America
What are political essays?
A disconnected assemblage of media, including literary texts, that is edgy, blurs lines of genres, or comments on media’s role in culture
What is postmodernism?
The literature of this period, which began after the Civil War was more pragmatic and less romantic than antebellum literature.
What is the Gilded Age?