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A Survey of American Literature Knowledge of Mankind Poetry is a river And solitude a bridge. ? Through writing We cross it, Through reading We return Colonial Period American Puritanism: the settlement of North America in the early 17th century to the end of 18th century Benjamin Franklin Romantic Period(the first half of 19th century) 1. First Period: A. Washington Irving The Sketch Book (Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) B. James Fenimore Cooper Leatherstocking Tales 2. Second Period (Transcendentalism 1840s, American Renaissance) A. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature: The Manifesto of American Transcendentalism The American Scholar: Declaration of Intellectual Independence B. Henry David Thoreau Walden: life experience in a small cottage on Walden Pond for over two years Romantic Period(the first half of 19th century) 3. Third Period A. Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter B. Herman Melville Moby Dick C. Edgar Allan Poe (Gothic Literature) D. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass (1855) E. Emily Dickinson The Age of Realism The American Civil War Mark Twain (Local Colorism) The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn 2. Henry James (Psychological Realism) B. Second Period (Naturalism) 1. Stephen Crane 2. Theodore Dreiser 3. O. Henry 4. Robinson Literature of 20th Century Teaching Plan 1st week: A Survey of American Literature 2nd –3rd week : American Puritanism Jonathan Edwards Benjamin Franklin 4-5th week: Romantic Period Washington Irving James Fenimore Cooper 6th –7th week: Transcendentalism 8-9th week: Nathaniel Hawthorne Herman Melville 10-11th week: Walt Whitman E. Emily Dickinson 12th week: Edgar Allan Poe (Gothic Literature) 13-14th week: Realism Mark Twain (Local Colorism) 15th week: Review References