Literary+Movements

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=**Literary Movements**=



===Throughout the 1750's all the way through 1800 there was a revolution in American culture altering history and the way people will learn to think forever. They realized there was not just one possible way to analyze something, they could use their imagination instead of just accepting the scientific thought process. It was a new reason to start speaking out and letting their voice be heard throughout society. The Revolutionary War was one of the biggest influential times in America's history. By writing their own feelings it was a new way to express their individuality and get their point out to the rest of the country.===


 * **Political Pamphlets**
 * Demonstrates to its readers how to interpret what they are reading in order to try and encourage Revolutionary War support


 * **Travel Narrative**
 * Travel Narratives were stories and journals written first hand by people in the eighteenth century of the hardships and horror they were forced to endure. This time period was commonly called the age of the novel due to the explosion of writers embarking on the early stages of their journals and books. Some writers were everyday common folk, while others were just travelers passing by recording their journey to a new land


 * **Persuasive Writing**
 * Demonstrates to its readers how to interpret what they are reading in order to try and encourage Revolutionary War support

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 * **Enlightenment**
 * The Age of enlightenment was during the seventeenth and eighteenth century. The main goal was to establish a structured society with a government, religion, and good morals and ethics. Enlightenment thinkers were people who thought that this would bring the world to a peace and unity. They also came up with the idea that they were going to bring everyone back to life from the Dark Ages.


 * **The Augustans**
 * This was an eighteenth century literary movement that focused bacically on classical ideas, skepticism, and satire. Some of the authors who wrote about this time were Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift.


 * **Romanticism**
 * Romanticism was a major occurance during the 17th and 18th century. It focused on teaching people to pursue their creative sides and use emotion and their imagination, rather than just scientific thought. It brought a lot of self power and individualism to the people.

=[|Historical Background]=

Important Authors
[|Victor Hugo]

[|Benjamin Franklin] [|Phyllis Wheatley]

[|Lord Byron]

[[image:http://www.haendel.it/photogallery/photo18120/librettisti/pope.jpg width="104" height="138" align="left" link="Works Cited"]]
[|Alexander Pope] [|Jonathan Swift] [|Thomas Paine]