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- 1. Your girlfr iend might not cheat you but she knows whom to date after you.
- 2. HI lO I CA l BACKG OU N America was discovered in 1492 by the I alian explorer Christopher Columbus The f irst and permanent British Colony was established in 1607 American literature is ve , diverse and in eresting in natu
- 3. The A merican Li erature is divided into f ive major ,episodes: -The colonial and early national period -Romantic A ge -Realism and atural ism -The Modernist Period -The Con emporary Period
- 4. -This time talks about colonial period and the time af ter America got independence in 1776 -The writings were practical and straightf orward in nature -Famous wri ers: John Smith , Benjam in Franklin, Wash ington Iirving, James Cooper , Phill is Wheatley
- 5. -Ralph Waldo Emerson and David Thoreau started a philosophical movement in literature, which is called'ranscendentalism" -Harriet Wilson was the f irst 'blac l..-.........-.1!_ publish f iction in America -Emily Dickinson was another grea this time writer of
- 6. -American Romanticism was all about individual thoughts and personal emotion and the beauty of nature -Edgar Allan Poe started wr iting modern detective and mystery stories. His famous works were: The murders in the Rue Morgue, The Raven, The Blac k Cat e cetera
- 7. -In the Civil war more than 8.5 lakh people were died -Mark Twai n was one of the f amous writers, his major works were: The Adventure of Tom Sawyer , The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,Li f e on the Mississippi -Other wr iters: Theodore Dreiser, H1 enry James, Stephen Crane and so on
- 8. -Massive improvements were made in sc ience and technology -Famous writers: Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner
- 9. -Daily-lif e suf f erings were depicted in literature -Dramas started becoming popuJar and Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes and Claude Mc kay Crafted a new genre of poetry
- 10. -Richard Wright publ ished his autobiogra Boy in 1945 -The l iterature of this time is against injusti ce
- 11. -Af ter the World War II and Cold War, America started dominating the world pol it ics and economy -Writers: oni Morrison , Norman Mailer,Philip Roth and many more