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? Romantic period ? Washington Irving ? Edgar Allan Poe ? Nathanial Hawthorne ? Walt Whitman ? Emily Dickinson ?II. Realist period ? Mark Twain ? Sherwood Anderson ? Stephen Crane ? Theodore Dreiser ?III. Modern period ? F. S. Fitzgerald ? Ernest Hemingway ? William Faulkner 1.Transcendentalism Transcendentalism refers to the religious and philosophical doctrines of Ralph Waldo Emerson and others in New England in the middle 1800’s, which emphasized the importance of individual inspiration and intuition, the Oversoul, and Nature. Other concepts tha