Hamlit

American Literature Timeline

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    Transcendentalism

  • Moby Dick

    Moby Dick

    By Truman Capote
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    civil war

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    The freeing of the slaves in the south
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    Realism

    Writers who wrote with a purpose rather then exotic

  • Eight Hour day created

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    By Mark Twain
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    modernism

  • The Awakening

    By Kate Chopins
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    wold war one

  • 18th Amendment prohibits Alchol

    18th Amendment prohibits Alchol

  • 19th amendment gives women right to vote

    19th amendment gives women right to vote

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    The Harlem Renaissance

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    Lost Generation

    post WWI writers
  • The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby

    By F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Their Eyes Were Watching God

    By Zora Neale Hurston
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    world war two

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    postmodernism

    Time after Modernism
  • All The Kings Men

    All The Kings Men

    By Robert Penn Warren
  • The Catcher In The Rye

    The Catcher In The Rye

    By J.D. Salinger
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    Beat Generation

    People who suport Individualism, freedom, are against materialism, militarism, and consumption
  • The Beat Generation

    The Beat Generation

    A film By MGM

  • To kill a Mockiingbird

    By Harper Lee
  • In Cold Blood

    In Cold Blood

    By Trumen Capote