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$97

Exam Cost

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90 min

Time

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3-6

Credits

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~50/80

Passing

What You'll Study

Unit 1: Colonial and Early National (1620-1830)

Puritan literature and plain styleEnlightenment prose (Franklin, Paine)early American poetry (Bradstreet, Wheatley)captivity and slave narratives

Unit 2: Romantic Period (1830-1865)

Transcendentalism (Emerson, Thoreau)Dark Romanticism (Hawthorne, Melville, Poe)Walt Whitman and free verseslave narratives (Douglass)

Unit 3: Realism and Naturalism (1865-1914)

literary realism (Twain, James, Howells)naturalism (Crane, Dreiser, London)regionalism and local colorEmily Dickinson's poetry

Unit 4: Modernism (1914-1945)

Harlem Renaissance (Hughes, Hurston)Lost Generation (Fitzgerald, Hemingway)modernist poetry (Frost, Eliot, Stevens)experimental narrative techniques

Unit 5: Contemporary (1945-Present)

Beat Generation (Kerouac, Ginsberg)postmodern fiction (Pynchon, Morrison)confessional poetry (Plath, Sexton)multicultural voices and identity literature

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Free Resources We Recommend

The best free materials for CLEP Am. Lit. No affiliation, no kickback — just what actually works.

Modern States: American Literature

Modern States (College Board partner)

Free full video course. Earn the free CLEP voucher after 70% completion.

The American Yawp (free online US lit + history)

American Yawp

Free primary-source reader for American lit + history.

YouTube: CrashCourse Lit

YouTube

Whitman, Twain, Dickinson, Hemingway, and more.

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Course Notes

- American Literature LibreTexts (human.libretexts.org): CC BY-NC-SA - Khan Academy US History & Arts (khanacademy.org/humanities) - Saylor ENGL405 American Literature (learn.saylor.org)

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