1. American Literature
It was the Puritans who most powerfully influenced the course of American literature and the formation of the American imagination. ... For romantics, the imagination, spontaneity, individual feelings, and nature were of greater value than reason, logic, planning, and cultivation. ... Realistic novelists often relied on the emerging sciences of human and animal behavior-biology, psychology, and sociology-as well as on their own insights and observations. ...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate