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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 andatural 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 orwardin
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 ofthe f amous writers, his major
works were: The Adventure of Tom Sawyer ,
The Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn,Li f e on the
Mississippi
-Other wr iters: Theodore Dreiser, H
1enry 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 ofthis 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