Final Essay Instructions – American Literature IBasing your writing on multiple assigned readings, you should create a thesis-driven literary essay that addresses one of the following questions: 1.What themes, writing styles, and/or topics differentiate the 19th century American literary movements (Romanticism/Gothic/Transcendentalism/Realism) from earlier periods (Native American/Colonial/Enlightenment)? 2.In what ways did American literature of the 17th, 18th, and/or 19th centuries include/exclude the diverse voices of the American colonies/United States, regarding identities such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, etc. Are there any 21st century applications of these treatments of “otherness” that readers today could glean from studying these earlier texts?
