American Literature on the CSET English Exam

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c. The Puritan work ethic.

d. Elegiac verse – morbid fascination with death.

e. The city upon the hill – concept of manifest destiny.

Early Colonial Period Authors to Study

William Bradford

Anne Bradstreet

Anne Hutchinson

Cotton Mather

Thomas Morton

Mary White Rowlandson

Samuel Sewall

Thomas Shepard

John Smith

Edward Taylor

Michael Wigglesworth

Roger Williams

John Winthrop

For more information on American literature for the CSET, including educational activities like: chronology exercise American Literary Movements, matching exercise American Literary Movements, fill-in exercise American Literary Movements, and fill-in exercise American Literary Period with Author, go to http://www.acethecset.com/freeCSETenglishstudymaterials.htm

Source(s):Reuben, Paul P. “Chapter 1: Early American Literature to 1700 – A Brief Introduction.” PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. WWW URL: http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap1/1intro.html

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