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In this course, you have learned about American literature from the periods and literary movements. You have studied the works of different American authors from the following time periods, literary movements, and subgenres: Early American and Colonial literature
American Romanticism
Transcendentalism
Regionalism
Realism
In an essay with at least three supporting paragraphs, choose three authors from different periods/movements/subgenres and discuss how their work(s) display the major elements of that period or movement or subgenre.

Heres the stuff we read:

Bradford
“Of Plymouth Plantation”

Veilleux
"Indians Are a People, Not Mascots"

Bradstreet
"Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666"

Wheatley
"To The University of Cambridge, In New England"
"On Being Brought from Africa to America"

Edwards
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

Equiano
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African (chapter 2 only)

Hawthorne
“Young Goodman Brown”

Poe
“The Tell-Tale Heart”
“The Masque of the Red Death”

Emerson
“Self-Reliance”

Thoreau
“Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” (excerpt from Walden)

Whitman
I Hear America Singing
There Was a Child Went Forth
I Sit and Look Out
Vigil Strange I Kept on a Field
Come Up From the Fields, Father
Inscription

Dickinson
"The Soul Selects her own Society—"
"I Heard A Fly Buzz"
Anything from The Complete Project Gutenberg Poems by Emily Dickinson

Jewett
Excerpt from The Country of the Pointed Firs

Twain
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"

Bierce
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”

Chopin
“A Pair of Silk Stockings”

Chesnutt
“The Wife of His Youth”

Yamanaka
“The Lemon Tree Billiards House”

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