Transcendentalism Reaction to Age of Reason; value intuition over reason, God is in Nature, Nature & man are basically good, death is just a part of life, go out into to Nature to heal and to become rejuvenated Walt Whitman Poetry reaction to Romanticism, social problems, slice of life, regionalism, dialect/accent, humor, a look at life in America asit really is—dirt and all rejuvenated Slice Of Life “Self Reliance” “American Scholar” Henry David Thoreau Essays Nathaniel Hawthorne Novel & Short Story I heard a fly buzz Hope is a thing with Feathers Because I could not stop for death Tell Tale Heart, Annabel Lee, Cask of Amontillado, The Raven. Annabelle Lee Edgar Allan Poe Short Story & Poetry Ambrose Bierce Short Story “Civil Disobedience” “Walden” Emily Dickinson Poetry Song of Myself Leaves of Grass Crazy Acting People People At Their Worst Truth In Extreme Situations Gothic Romantic a reaction to Age of Reason, man is basically evil (Original Sin), Nature (woods) are full of sin/Satan; intense guilt; insanity and hallucinations Strange locations, secret sin, insane narrator Realism & Regionalism Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays Self Reliance Independent Thinking Nonconformity Nature Scarlet Letter, Minister’s Black Veil, Twice Told Tales, Young Goodman Brown Occurrence on Owl Creek Bridge John Mortonson's Funeral” Kate Chopin Short Story and Novels The Story of an Hour Silk Stockings Mark Twain Novels and Short Story Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer Hop Frog Naturalism an extreme of realism, Nature is beautiful but savage, man has no power against her. Environment and heredity explains person and predicts future Ne1-Nature Explains individual Sci-fi science freewill invalidation Jack London Short Story and Novel To Build a Fire White Fang, Call of the Wild Stephen Crane Novel, Short Story, Poetry Open Boat, Red Badge of Courage Man to the Universe Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance—The Great Depression, Prohibition, and the World Wars lead to the disillusionment of the American people with the government. The social norms of the time began to change regarding race, gender, and sexuality.