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American Literary

Periods

Native American Period (20.000 B.C-Present)

Exploration Period (1429-1607)

Colonial Period (1607-1765)

Revolutionary Period (1765-1790)

Also known as the period of Enlightenment

Romantic period (1828-1865)

Age of Transcendentalism (1836-1860)

Nathaniel Hawhtorne: The Scarlett Letter (1850)

Emily DIckinson I felt a funeral in my brain (1816)

Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass

Realism (1865-1900)

Mark Twain: The adventures of Tom Slayer

Naturalism (1900-1914)

Emilie Zola: "Therese Raquin"

Frank Norris: " A deal in Wheat and other stories of the new and Old west" (1903)