... , author of his masterpiece, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Other famous writers of this time include Thomas Paine, who wrote THE CRISIS, NO.1; Patrick Henry, author of SPEECH TO THE VIRGINIA CONVENTION; and Thomas Jefferson, writer of THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. The AMERICAN ROMANTICISM PERIOD existed from 1783-1886. The romantic sensibility was hard to define because it was a movement that went beyond ... AGE OF REALISM, from 1835-1910, explained why ordinary people behave the way they do. Realistic novelists often relied on the emerging sciences of human and animal behavior-biology, psycholog...

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