english

The colonial

Revolutionary

Early National

1607-1775

1775-1783

1785-1828

3 literatures:

1st Puritan character

despise capitalism , don't believe Democracy

2nd Englishmen

Exploration and colonization

3rd Indian

They transmitted

epics, myths, legends

the characters

animals, gods, plants

Authors:

John Smith

Themes

America community, the success is heaven and the failure is hell, religious

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Authors:

Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin

Themes

The justice and freedom politics and the self improvement

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Founding fathers

The US constitution and political

Johan Adams, James Madison, George Washington

Connecticut wits

conservative was the 1st circle in USA

1st comedy

1787

The contrast

1st american novel

1789

The power of sympathy

American Fiction

Washington, james and charles

American poetry

Edgar Allan Poe and wilson Cholen