Early American Literary Period was not focused on narratives of the secular kind.
Step-by-step explanation:
Early American Literary Period begins in the early 17th century with the arrival of Puritans onto the country with their religious practices and will to make a life according to their religion.
They kept their memoirs and diaries which are the primary literature of the time along with a few attempts at poetry that were made.
The work is of religious character and not much else is gotten into as far as the thematic work is concerned.
It is only in the later period that secular american literature arrives.