English - College Literature - Survey of American literature - American Literary Movements
Timeline: (1) COLONIAL/PURITAN (1600-1750): Bradford, Bradstreet - religious texts, diaries, sermons. (2) REVOLUTIONARY (1750-1800): Franklin, Paine, Jefferson - persuasive, political, rational. (3) ROMANTIC/TRANSCENDENTALIST (1800-1860): Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Hawthorne, Melville - individualis