American Literature Timeline

By jpang2

  • Romanticism

  • War of 1812

    War of 1812

  • Transcendentalism

  • Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

  • The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

    The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • Civil War

    Civil War

  • Proclamation Emancipation

  • Black Codes

    Black Codes

  • Death of Lincoln

    Death of Lincoln

  • Naturalism

  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

  • Modernism

    Modernism

  • The Wasteland by T.S. Elliot

  • U.S. declares war on Germany

  • The Harlem Renaissance

  • Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

    Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

  • The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens

  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scot Fitzgerald

    The Great Gatsby by F. Scot Fitzgerald

  • Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchel

  • Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

  • World War 2

  • The Beat Generation

  • Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

  • Howl by Allen Ginsberg

  • Post Modernism

  • Latin America Boom

  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

  • •A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

  • For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell

  • Literary Realism