Literary Eras by Meron Frew https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j Made by Meron Frew en-us 2019-11-12 04:07:40 UTC 2025-10-20 11:14:52 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4d6.png Puritans vs The Revolutionary period 1794328 https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409870121 Puritan literature was faith based while the revolutionary period valued  reason over faith. 
In the Age of Reason, most important literature were political documents and pamphlets such as the Declaration of Independence. Non fiction was more influential.]]> 2019-11-12 10:56:30 UTC https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409870121 made a connection 1794328 https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409871119 In world history I have learnt how political and scientific advancements were based on reasoning in the Revolutionary period. And in the last unit, The Crucibles, we have seen how Puritan literature is faith based]]> 2019-11-12 11:00:01 UTC https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409871119 Deism 1794328 https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409872706 -looked to unite all religions
-stressed humanities inherent goodness
-provided principles for American Revolution and the system of government]]> 2019-11-12 11:05:19 UTC https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409872706 Important writers of the Age of Reason 1794328 https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409875113 Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, The Founding Fathers, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry]]> 2019-11-12 11:12:50 UTC https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409875113 Thomas Paine 1794328 https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409876216 -used a "plain-style" language
-Has written mostly pamphlets that were influential in the American Revolution]]> 2019-11-12 11:16:09 UTC https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409876216 made a connection 1794328 https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409876944 I have learnt in history how the pamphlet he wrote called "Common Sense" swayed the public into supporting the cause for American independence from the British.]]> 2019-11-12 11:18:40 UTC https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409876944 American Romanticism 1794328 https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409878549 was a rebellion against the Age of Reason]]> 2019-11-12 11:23:47 UTC https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409878549 Characteristics of American Romanticism literature 1794328 https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409879045 -imagination and emotion were more important than reason
-center of importance was the individual
-nature was the source of spiritual refreshment
-nostalgia from the past
-preference for the common man
-interest in the supernatural
-concern for individual freedom
-intuition was more important

]]> 2019-11-12 11:25:32 UTC https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409879045 Literature from the American Romanticism 1794328 https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409881022 -The Scarlet Letter,  The Minister's Black Veil, Rappaccini's Daughter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
-The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle (Washington Irving)]]> 2019-11-12 11:31:43 UTC https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409881022 made a connection 1794328 https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409883071 We have read The Minister's Black Veil which emphasized imagination and emotion and also interest in religion ]]> 2019-11-12 11:37:32 UTC https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409883071 Fireside poets 1794328 https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409884400 -appealed to the common man and the learned
-read by families by the fire side for entertainment
-poets such as Longfellow, Holmes, Lowell, Whittier]]> 2019-11-12 11:41:49 UTC https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409884400 Gothicism 1794328 https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409885175 Characteristics
-mystery
-romance 
-murder
-super natural
-wild, desolate landscapes
- ancient buildings]]> 2019-11-12 11:44:27 UTC https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409885175 made a connection 1794328 https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409886066 I have read the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and these elements of Gothic literature were all apparent in the novel.]]> 2019-11-12 11:47:09 UTC https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409886066 Transcendentalism 1794328 https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409887804 -goes beyond the five senses
- spiritual
- evil is negative
- center of the universe is self
- Ralph Wardo Emerson (Nature, Self Reliance, Aphorisms)]]> 2019-11-12 11:52:27 UTC https://padlet.com/1794328/wq3ul45tt84j/wish/409887804