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Rationalism / Age of Enlightenment period of American Literature - 1750-1800
Content:
- national mission and American character
- democratic utopia
- use of reason
- history is an act of individual and national self-assertion
Genre/Style:
- political pamphlets
- travel writing
- highly ornate writing style
- fiction employs generic plots and characters
- fiction often tells the story of how an innocent young woman is tested by a seductive male
Effect:
- patriotism grows
- instills pride
- creates common agreement about issues
- shows differences between Americans and Europeans
Historical Context:
- tells readers how to interpret what they are reading to encourage Revolutionary War support
- instructive in values
To find out more about a particular literature time period, click on the links below:
- American Literature through Time
- Puritan Times
- Rationalism/Age of Enlightenment
- American Renaissance/Romanticism
- Gothic
- Realism
- Naturalism
- Modernism
- Harlem Renaissance
- Postmodernism
- Contemporary
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