American Literature Timeline

By bartosz
  • Transcendentalism

    New Era in thought and in Philosophy
  • A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allen Poe

  • Period: to

    America

  • The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain

  • World War 1

  • Black Mountain Poets

    Charles Olson
    Robert Duncan
  • Modernism

    Modernism
  • Confessional Poets

    Sylvia Plath
    Robert Lowell
  • New York Poets

    Kenneth Koch
    JOhn Ashbery
  • I, Too, Sing America By Langston Hughes

  • The Great Gatsby By F. Scott FItzgerald

    The Great Gatsby By F. Scott FItzgerald
  • The Harlem Renaissance

    Explosion of African American culture in Harlem
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora N. Hurston

    Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora N. Hurston
  • World War 2

  • Drama

    Arthur Miller
    David Mamet
  • The Beat Generation

    The Beat Generation
    Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac
  • Catcher In The Rye By J.D. Salinger

    Catcher In The Rye By J.D. Salinger
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
  • Howl By Allen Ginsberg

  • On The Run By Jack Keourac

    On The Run By Jack Keourac
  • I Carry Your Heart With Me E.E. Cummings

  • Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

  • Civil RIghts Movement

    Civil RIghts Movement
    Spanned from 1955-1968
  • One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest By Ken Kesey

  • Notes Of A Dirty Old Man By Charles Bukowski

  • Post Modernism

    Post Modernism
    Hippies, Free Love, alternative ways of living
  • Hip Hop

    Hip Hop
    Began in the 1970s
  • Post Office By Charles Bukowski

  • Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski

  • Realism

    George Eliot
    Gustave Flaubert
  • Yugoslav Wars

  • Iraq War