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| early explorers and colonists years |
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| early explorer and colonists |
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| valued hard work, self-sacrifice, family life, community service, art, literature |
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| honored material success (reward of a virtuous life) |
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| focus of lit: creation myths, heroes/trickster, ritual songs/charms |
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| beliefs: human relationship w/ animals, nature, heavenly bodies, the elements |
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| purpose of lit: entertainment, teaching tribal mores, reinforce traditions |
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| motivation: fame/adventure, money (wealth) |
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| early explorers and colonists |
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| focus of lit: history, autobiography, biography, religious sermons, poetry, daily events |
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| established printing press, free public grammar schools, college (Harvard) |
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| focus of lit: non-fiction, narratives, essays, daily log, history |
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| early explorers and colonists |
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| believed in reason over faith |
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| viewed people as good and focused on society |
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| science + reasoning = perfect world |
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| focus of lit: speeches, panflits, essays, biography, more practical |
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| brooding romantics, transcedentalists, fireside poets |
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| focused on emotion over reasoning, individual over society, uniqueness, nature, optimism |
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| focus: man's capacity for evil while dark and pessimistic |
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| henry wadsworth longfellow |
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1-able to read in one sittingg
2-everything leads to single effect
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| setting: gloomy, dark, strange |
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| events: mysterious, violent, supernatural |
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| morally uplifting, romantically engrossingg, humorous, not overly difficult, optimistic |
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| belief: maintained an awarness of reality, or a sense of truth, is reached through intuition rather than through reason or logic |
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| upheld the goodneess of humanity, the glories of nature, and the importance of free individual expression |
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| individuals should act according to innermost personal beliefs rather than follow the dictates of society; integrity of individual: inherently good, capable of making rational decisions |
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| belief: intuition - existance of our soul (the inner lights) |
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| found a spirit in nature and believed that all individuals should experience it |
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| clashed with puritan beliefs |
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| believed in the over soul |
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| had qualities that went under attack |
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| the truthful treatment of material, looking at life with objectivity |
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| shaped by migration west, civil war |
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