Civil war (1642-1648) and the English Bourgeois Revolution

F. S. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, his most famous, The Great Gatsby and what is now considered his true masterpiece, Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age.

13. Two generations of American Romanticists. J.F.Cooper, E.A.Poe, W.Irving
In America Romanticism(1820-1860) emerged 30 years later than it did in England or France due to the peculiarities of American history. American Romanticism had much in common with European. The development of the self became the mayor theme(self-awareness), self and nature were one
Ch-s: values, feelings and intuition over reason, places faith in inner experience and the power of the imagination, nature, prefers youthful innocence to educated sophistication, individual freedom, looks backwards to the wisdom of the past, finds inspiration in myths, legends and folk culture
Washington Irving introduced the genre of a short story. Most of his stories have humorous character.( "Rip Van Winkle", "The Devil and Tom Walker", )Actually Irving was the father of the American Romanticism & the first American writer who was recognized by Europe as the first representative of America's national literature.
James Fenimore Cooper. He consciously became a novel writer as he did not want to compete with Irving (in writing short stories) while novel writing remained an open field at that time. And his first novels brought him immediate success & when he decided to visit Europe he was seen off as an ambassador of American literature. Yet when he came back to America 6 years later, he realizes that the reality was different from the ideal which he had drawn for himself. He began to expose American vices in his numerous pamphlets which brought public censure on him. ("The Spy", Leather-Stocking Tale s")