ANGLO AMERICAN

LITERATURE
INTRODUCTION TO ANGLO-AMERICA AND
ANGLO-AMERICAN LITERATURES
 Anglo-America

What makes Anglo-America distinct from Latin

America is that this ecomprises a region in the
Americas who speaks Romance languages such as
Spanish, Portuguese and French.

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 Anglo-America

Refers to a region in the Americas in which

ENGLISH is the main language and British culture
and Empire have had significant historical, ethnic,
linguistic and cultural impact.

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 Anglo-America
This refers to countries such as United States and
Canada, which are by far the two most populous
English-speaking countries in North America.

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 Anglo-America
OTHER REGIONS INCLUDED IN ANGLO- REGIONS NOT INCLUDED IN ANGLO-
AMERICAN ARE: AMERICAN ARE:
Territories of the former Bristish Esutatius
West Indies, Belize, Bermuda, and Sint Maarten
Gayana.
Saba
Quebec, Acadia in New Brunswick
and a part of Cochrane District are not included despite having
because of cultural, economical, English-speaking majorities becuase
political geographical, and they are constituent countries or
historical reasons. public bodies that form part of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Puerto Rico, despite being a
Spanish-speaking country is also
considered because it is an
unicorporated territory of the
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United States.
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 ANGLO-
L IAMERICAN
TERATU
RE
With this, we can define
ANGLO-AMERICAN
LITERATURE as the literature
made by people living in the
United States and Canada and
other regions considered to be
part of Anglo-America. In
which the Father of Anglo-
American Literature is Geoffrey
Chaucer.
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ANGLO AMERICAN
LITERATURE
PERIODS OF ANGLO-AMERICAN LITERATURE
 Periods of Anglo-American Literature

1607-1775 1765-1790 1775-1828 1828-1865 1865-1900 1900-1914

COLONIAL REVOLUTIO EARLY AMERICAN REALISTIC NATURALISTI
PERIOD NARY AGE NATIONAL RENAISSAN PERIOD C PERIOD
PERIOD CE

1914-1939 1944-1962 1939-Present

MODERN BEAT CONTEMPOR
PERIOD PERIOD ARY PERIOD

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 The Colonial Period (1607-1775)

This period encompasses the founding of Jamestown up to the

Revolutionary War. The majority of writings were historical, practical, or
religious in nature. Some writers not to miss from this period include Phillis
Wheatley, Cotton Mather, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, and John
Winthrop.

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 The Colonial Period (1607-1775)

This period encompasses the founding of Jamestown up to the

Revolutionary War. The majority of writings were historical, practical, or
religious in nature. Some writers not to miss from this period include Phillis
Wheatley, Cotton Mather, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, and John
Winthrop.

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 The Colonial Period (1607-1775)

The first Slave Narrative, A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and

Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man, was published in
Boston in 1760.

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 The Revolutionary Age (1765-1790)

Beginning a decade before the Revolutionary War and ending about 25

years later, this period is arguably the richest period of political writing
since classical antiquity. The period includes the writings of Thomas
Jefferson, Thomas Paine, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton.

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 The Revolutionary Age (1765-1790)

Important works include the “Declaration of Independence,” The Federalist

Papers and the poetry of Joel Barlow and Philip Freneau.

JOEL BARLOW PHILIP FRENEAU

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 The Early National Age
(1775-1828)

The Early National Period of American Literature

saw the beginnings of literature that could be truly
identified as "American". The writers of this new
American literature wrote in the English style, but
the settings, themes, and characters were
authentically American. In addition, poets of this
time wrote poetry that was relatively independent
of English precursors.
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 The Early National Age (1775-1828)

Three of the most recognized writers of this time are Washington Irving,
James Fenimore Cooper, and Edgar Allan Poe.

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The American Renaissance(1828-1865)

Also known as the Romantic Period in America and the

Age of Transcendentalism, this period is commonly
accepted to be the greatest of American Literature.
Additionally, this era is the inauguration point of
American Literary Criticism, lead by Poe, James Russell
Lowell, and William Gilmore Simms. The years 1853 and
1859 brought the first African-American novels: Clotel
and Our Nig.

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The American Renaissance (1828-1865)

Major writers include Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David
Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Margaret Fuller and
Herman Melville. In which Emerson, Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller are
credited with shaping the literature and ideals of many later writers.

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The American Renaissance (1828-1865)

Major writers include Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David
Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Margaret Fuller and
Herman Melville. In which Emerson, Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller are
credited with shaping the literature and ideals of many later writers.

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The American Renaissance
(1828-1865)

Other major contributions include the poetry of

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the short
stories of Melville, Poe, Hawthorne and Harriet
Beecher Stowe.

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 The Realistic Period (1865-1900)

As a result of the American Civil War, Reconstruction and the age of

Industrialism, American ideals and self-awareness changed in profound
ways, and American literature responded. Certain romantic notions of the
American Renaissance are replaced by realistic descriptions of American
life, such as those represented in the works of William Dean Howells, Henry
James, and Mark Twain.

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 The Realistic Period
(1865-1900)

Unlike romantic fiction, realistic fiction aims to

represent life as it really is and make the reader
believe that the characters actually might exist and
the situations might actually happen. In order to
have this effect on the reader, realistic fiction
focuses on the ordinary and commonplace.

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 The Realistic Period (1865-1900)

This period also gave rise to regional writing, such as the works of Sarah
Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Bret Harte, Mary Wilkins Freeman, and George
W. Cable. In addition to Walt Whitman, another master poet, Emily
Dickinson, appeared at this time.

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 The Realistic Period (1865-1900)

This period also gave rise to regional writing, such as the works of Sarah
Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Bret Harte, Mary Wilkins Freeman, and George
W. Cable. In addition to Walt Whitman, another master poet, Emily
Dickinson, appeared at this time.

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 The Naturalistic Period (1900-1914)

This relatively short period is defined by its insistence on recreating life as

life really is, even more so than the realists had been doing in the decades
before. American Naturalist writers such as Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser,
and Jack London created some of the most powerfully raw novels in
American literary history. Their characters are victims who fall prey to their
own base instincts and to economic and sociological factors.

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The Naturalistic Perio (1900-1914)

Edith Wharton wrote some of her most

beloved classics, such as The Custom of the
Country (1913), Ethan Frome (1911) and House
of Mirth (1905) during this time period.

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 The Modern Period (1914-1939)

After the American Renaissance, the Modern Period is the second

most influential and artistically rich age of American writing.
This contains certain major movements including the Jazz Age,
the Harlem Renaissance, and the Lost Generation. Many of these
writers were influenced by World War I and the disillusionment
that followed, especially the expatriates of the Lost Generation.
Furthermore, the Great Depression and the New Deal resulted in
some of America’s greatest social issue writing, such as the
novels of Faulkner and Steinbeck, and the drama of Eugene
O’Neill.
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 POETS FROM THE MODERN PERIOD

E.E. Cummings Robert Frost Ezra Pound William Carlos

Williams
 POETS FROM THE MODERN PERIOD

Carl Sandburg T.S. Eliot Wallace Edna St.

Stevens Vincent Millay
 NOVELIST AND OTHER PROSE WRITERS
FROM THE MODERN PERIOD

Willa Cather John Dos Edith Wharton F. Scott

Passos Fitzgerald
 NOVELIST AND OTHER PROSE WRITERS
FROM THE MODERN PERIOD

John Steinbeck Ernest William Gertrude Stein

Hemingway Faulkner
NOVELIST AND OTHER PROSE WRITERS
FROM THE MODERN PERIOD
Sinclair Lewis Thomas Wolfe Sherwood
Anderson
 The Beat Period (1944-1962)

Beat writers, such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, were devoted to anti-
traditional literature, in poetry and prose, and anti-establishment politics.
This period saw a rise in confessional poetry and sexuality in literature,
which resulted in legal challenges and debates over censorship in America.

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 The Beat Period (1944-1962)

William S. Burroughs and Henry Miller are two writers whose works faced
censorship challenges and who, along with other writers of the time,
inspired the counterculture movements of the next two decades.

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 The Contemporary Period(1939-Present)

After World War II, American literature has become

broad and varied in terms of theme, mode, and purpose.
Currently, there is little consensus as to how to go about
classifying the last 80 years into periods or movements –
more time must pass, perhaps, before scholars can make
these determinations. That being said, there are a number
of important writers since 1939 whose works may already
be considered “classic” and who are likely to become
canonized.
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 The Contemporary Period (1939-Present)

Kurt Vonnegut Amy Tan John Updike Eudora Welty

 The Contemporary Period (1939-Present)

James Baldwin Sylvia Plath Arthur Miller Toni Morrison

The Contemporary Period (1939-Present)

Ralph Ellison Joan Didion Thomas Elizabeth

Pynchon Bishop
The Contemporary Period(1939-Present)

Tennessee Sandra Richard Wright Tony Kushner

Williams Cisneros
 The Contemporary Period (1939-Present)

Adrienne Rich Bernard Saul Bellow Joyce Carol

Malamud Oates
The Contemporary Period
(1939-Present)

Thornton Alice Walker Edward Albee Norman Mailer

Wilder
The Contemporary Period
(1939-Present)

John Barth Maya Angelou Robert Penn

Warren
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