The events of American history are very much connected to the influence of American literature and what it has become today. ... The Bible was the foundation upon which puritan literature was built. ... It was the Puritans who most powerfully influenced the course of American literature and the formation of the American imagination. ... The AMERICAN ROMANTICISM PERIOD existed from 1783-1886. ... It had a strong influence on literature, music, and painting. ...

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That being said, the narrative of literature has changed drastically from the 18th Century to the 19th/20th centuries. At the peak of the 19th century there was a "revolutionary" shift and rise in the popularity of writers rejecting the concept of romanticism in their novellas and novels. ... Reading is a muse and escape for many just like many other forms of the arts; modern writers strived to outvie the romantic perspective from literature by conquering fictional literature with modern influence. ... Modernism, as a literary style is built upon the ideas and concepts found in b...

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American realism was a late nineteenth-century literary movement that began as a reaction against romanticism and the sentimental tradition associated primarily with women writers. ... Although the realist aesthetic influenced European as well as American literature, the American tradition emerged somewhat later in the century and employed slightly different conventions than its continental counterpart. ... Viewed as a reaction to romanticism, literary realism is written from an objective perspective that simply and clearly represents the subject matter and characters of the story. ...

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