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in and the mystery of evil marked the works of Hawthorne, Melville and a host of lesser writers5) The most clearly defined Romantic literary movement in this period is New England Transcendentalism6) It ranges from the ic fables of Washington Irving to the Gothic tales of Edgar Allen Poe, from the frontier adventures of James Fenimore Cooper to the narrative quests of Herman Melville, from the psychological romances of Nathaniel Hawthorne to the social realism of Rebecca Harding. 4. The literature of Realism (18651918) 1. Colonial Literature. 16071700 literature of Reason And Revolution(18th century) The 18thcentury American Enlightenment was a movement marked by an emph