American Literacure Timeline

By mrudnick

  • Transcendentalism Begins

  • Tales of Grostesque and Arabesque, Edgar Allen Poe

  • The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe

  • The Slave Narrative Movement (1840-60)

  • The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

    The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville

    Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville

  • Symblosim Movement

  • Realism – (1865-1915)

    Realism is the presentation in art of the details of actual life. Realism was also a literary movement that began during the nineteenth century and stressed the actual as opposed to the imagined or the fanciful.

  • End of the Civil War and the death of Abraham Lincoln

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain

  • The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane

  • WWI

  • Modernism begins

  • Modern Age – (1915-1946)

  • The Harlem Renaissance

  • The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Stock Market Crash

  • The Great Depression begins

    The Great Depression begins

  • Their Eye's Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

    Their Eye's Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

  • The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

  • WWII

  • Still I Rise, Maya Angelou

  • WWII ends

    WWII ends, Atomic Age begins, creation of the United Nations, Cold War, and the beginning of the end for colonialism

  • Contemporary – (1946-present)

  • The Beat Generation

    The Beat Generation

  • Catcher in the Rye by, J.D Salinger

    Catcher in the Rye by, J.D Salinger

  • Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

  • Civil Rights Act is passed

  • MLK died

    MLK died

  • Post Modernism Begins

  • The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost

  • a pretty a day, E.E. Cummings

  • Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

    Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace