| A | B |
|---|
| Puritan / Colonial | A person's fate is determined by God |
| puritan / Colonial | All people are corrupt and must be saved by christ |
| Revolutionary/age of reason | Tells readers how to interpret what they are reading to encourage Revolutionary War support |
| Revolutionary/age of reason | instructive in values |
| Romanticism | Expansion of magazines,newspapers, and book publishing |
| Romanticism | Slavery debates |
| Romanticism | Industrial revolution brings ideas that the "old ways" of doing things are now irrelevant |
| American Renaissance/ Transcendentalism | Today in literature we still see portrayals of alluring antagonists whose evil characterestics appeal to one's sense of awe |
| American Renaissance/ Transcendentalism | Stories of the persecuted girl forced apart from her true love |
| American Renaissance/ Transcendentalism | People seeking the true beauty in life and in nature... a belief in true love and contentment |
| Realism | Civil War brings demand for a "truer" type of literature that does not idealize people or places |
| The Moderns | Writers reflect of Darwin (survival of the fittest) and Karl Marx (how money and class structure control a nation) |
| The Moderns | Overwhelming technological changes of the 20th Century |
| The Moderns | Rise of the youth culture |
| The Moderns | WWI and WWII |
| The Moderns | Harlem Renaissance |
| Harlem | Mass African-American migration to Northen urban |
| Renaissance | centers |
| Renaissance | African-Americans have more access to media and publishing outlets after they move north |
| Postmodernism | Post-World War II prosperity |
| Postmodernism | Media colture interpets values |
| Contemporary | People beginning a new millennium |
| Contemporary | Media culture interpets values |
