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- Not actually a literary movement, but a religious belief
- Puritanism
- Plaine Style
- Puritanism
- Bible = God's Law
- Puritanism
- Men are naturally evil and deserve hell
- Puritanism
- Salvation can not be earned, but is predetermined.
- Puritanism
- Value reason over faith
- Rationalism
- Value now over afterlife
- Rationalism
- Humans are essentially good
- Rationalism
- A Utopia is absurd and impossible
- Rationalism
- Glorified nature and the common man
- Romanticism
- Valued free will and self-determinism
- Romanticism
- Held an interest in the mysterious, speculative, and supernatural
- Romanticism
- Authors stressed examination of inner feelings
- Romanticism
- valued imagination and insight as a path to understanding
- Romanticism
- believed in excess and spontaneity (seize the day!)
- Romanticism
- Valued experiences of the individual
- Romanticism
- Believed an ideal opposed to the actual
- Romanticism
- Maintained a deep awareness of the past
- Romanticism
- Humans achieve understanding intuitively
- Transcendentalism
- 1st authentically original AMerican literacy and philosophical movement
- Transcendentalism
- The most fundamental truths of life exist in a universal and bening omniprescence called the oversoul.
- Transcendentalist
- VAlue individual, nature, and independence
- Transcendentalist
- Humanity is essentially divine and lacks potential for evil
- Transcendentalist
- Self-reliance were to be practiced; authority is unnecessary
- Transcendentalist
- Offshoot of Realism, depict people in real situations
- Naturalism
- Depicts humans as animals in the natural world
- Naturalism
- People viewed as victims of immutable natural laws (subject to destiny/fate)
- Naturalism
- Characters respond to forces, but have no control
- Naturalism
- Humans are driven by primal urges (fear, hunger, sex)
- Naturalism