AMERICAN LITERATURE
ELIZABETHAN ERA
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Postmodern; end slavery.
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Colonial; end patriotism for England.
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Modernism; end individualism.
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Romanticism; define themselves and their writing style as independent from England.
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Detailed explanation-1: -American Renaissance, also called New England Renaissance, period from the 1830s roughly until the end of the American Civil War in which American literature, in the wake of the Romantic movement, came of age as an expression of a national spirit.
Detailed explanation-2: -The American Renaissance is considered the romantic period in American literature. American romanticism was a literary style that emphasized emotion over reason, individuality instead of society, nature instead of industrialization, common people instead of aristocrats and freedom instead of authoritarian control.
Detailed explanation-3: -Notable authors Most often associated with the American Renaissance movement are Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Representative Men and Self-Reliance, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables, Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, and Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the period of the American Renaissance, the United States’ preoccupation with national identity (or New Nationalism) was expressed by modernism and technology, as well as academic classicism. It expressed its self-confidence in new technologies, such as the wire cables of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City.