American Literature Timeline

Transcendentalism

Jan 17, 1850

New Era in thought and in Philosophy

A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allen Poe

Jan 17, 1850

America

Period: Jan 17, 1850 to Jan 17, 2011

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain

Feb 20, 1885

World War 1

Jul 28, 1914

Black Mountain Poets

Jan 17, 1915

Charles Olson
Robert Duncan

Modernism

Nov 11, 1918

Confessional Poets

Jan 17, 1920

Sylvia Plath
Robert Lowell

New York Poets

Jan 17, 1924

Kenneth Koch
JOhn Ashbery

I, Too, Sing America By Langston Hughes

Jan 17, 1925

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott FItzgerald

Apr 10, 1925

The Harlem Renaissance

May 9, 1925

Explosion of African American culture in Harlem

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora N. Hurston

Oct 20, 1937

World War 2

Sep 1, 1939

Drama

Jan 17, 1940

Arthur Miller
David Mamet

The Beat Generation

Mar 19, 1950

Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac

Catcher In The Rye By J.D. Salinger

Jan 17, 1951

Vietnam War

Nov 1, 1955

Howl By Allen Ginsberg

Jan 17, 1956

On The Run By Jack Keourac

Apr 17, 1957

I Carry Your Heart With Me E.E. Cummings

Jan 17, 1958

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

Jan 17, 1959

Civil RIghts Movement

Feb 16, 1960

Spanned from 1955-1968

One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest By Ken Kesey

Jan 17, 1962

Notes Of A Dirty Old Man By Charles Bukowski

Jan 17, 1969

Post Modernism

May 18, 1969

Hippies, Free Love, alternative ways of living

Hip Hop

Apr 28, 1970

Began in the 1970s

Post Office By Charles Bukowski

Jan 17, 1971

Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski

Jan 17, 1982

Realism

Jan 17, 1990

George Eliot
Gustave Flaubert

Yugoslav Wars

May 19, 1991

Iraq War

Mar 20, 2003