U.S. Puritan and Revolution Literary Movement Help

[KnowledgeSeeker]

I need help on a project I am doing for my AP Lit. class. For the project you have to find out the timeline for each movement and summarize the trends of the movement. My partner and I got stuck with U.S. Puritan and Revolution movements and I can not find any information on them. Any help that anyone could offer would be greatly appreciated.

[PeterL]

I would guess that the Puritan movement was Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, etc, but Unless the Revolutionary movement was Thomas Paine, etc., I don't know what it means. Do you have definitions of those eras?

[KnowledgeSeeker]

Do you have definitions of those eras?
None at all. All we were told was to research those specific areas of literature.

[PeterL]

None at all. All we were told was to research those specific areas of literature.

It looks like you will have to do some research. I have never encountered anything that would be called the Puritan Movement, although I have had the misfortune of reading som of the sermons of Mather and Edwards. You might try searching on google for timeline of American literature and related searches.

[KnowledgeSeeker]

That's what I figured. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something completely obvious. Thank you so much for the help though!

[PeterL]

If you find out what was meant by the Puritan movement and the Revolutionary movement, please post exactly what they are; I'm wondering.