Modernist


Native Americans
  • oral myth
Puritans/ colonial era
  • religion/political
  • romantics
-Gothics: people telling stories that the church or politicians could not tell
-transcendentalist: an idealistic philosophical and social movement. 
Influenced by romanticism

Modernist
  • make it new/original
  • modern character or quality of thought, expression, or technique.

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