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Time Period Study
People who live during the same time period often share attitudes. Choose any three writers from the same time period. What attitudes do they seem to share?
Romanticism
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Washington Irving
- Herman Melville
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Realism & Naturalism
- Kate Chopin
- Stephen Crane
- Theodore Dreiser
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- Joel Chandler Harris
- Sarah Orne Jewett
- Jack London
- Mark Twain
Modernism
- The Great Gatsby or other novels/stories by Fitzgerald
- The Sun Also Rises or other novels/stories by Hemingway
- Winesburg, Ohio or other stories/novels by Anderson
- Elmer Gantry or other novels by Lewis
- O Pioneers!, My My Ántonia, or other novels/stories by Cather
- Their Eyes were Watching God or other novels/stories by Hurston
- The Grapes of Wrath or other novels/stories by Steinbeck
- The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
Postmodernism
- Instead of doing Postmodernism as a time period, it would be better to choose a Postmodern author and do an author study.
Updated January 10, 2007.
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