Identify the historical period in which a literary text was written and explain the text in light of this understanding. 0601.8.17

Links verified on 7/02/2014

1. Ethnic Writers and the Literary Mainstream - explores the modernist lyrics of two of these poets: William Carlos Williams and Langston Hughes
2. Historical and Cultural Context - Use your sleuthing skills to figure out when and where an historical event took place by examining some primary sources and using an educated guess to pinpoint them on a map and timeline.
3. Historical/Biographical Analysis Chart - Use this to help analyze literary text
4. Nineteenth-Century American Children - Works selected from early children's books and magazines
5. Regional Realism - This site compares Twain's depiction of Southern vernacular culture to that of Charles Chestnutt and Kate Chopin, and in doing so, introduces the hallmarks of American Realism.
6. Southern Renaissance - the revisioning of Southern myths during the modernist era by writers William Faulkner and Zora Neale Hurston.

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