American Literature Timeline By hlupi Period: Apr 19, 1755 to Sep 3, 1783 American Revolution Period: Jan 18, 1820 to Jan 18, 1860 Romanticism Period: Jan 18, 1820 to Jan 18, 1870 Industrial Revolution Period: Jan 18, 1830 to Jan 18, 1860 Transcendentalism Jan 19, 1850 "The Scarlet Letter" by: Nathanial Hawthorne Jan 18, 1852 "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by: Harriet Beecher Stowe Period: Jan 18, 1860 to Jan 18, 1900 Realism Period: Jan 18, 1861 to Jan 18, 1865 Civil War Jan 18, 1884 "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by: Mark Twain Jan 18, 1890 Emily Dickson- There is another sky- Period: Jan 18, 1890 to Jan 18, 1940 Modernism Period: Jan 18, 1890 to Jan 18, 1920 Naturalism Jan 18, 1899 "The Awakening" by: Kate Chopin Jan 18, 1903 "The Call of the Wild" by: Jack London Period: Jan 18, 1914 to Jan 18, 1919 World War I Jan 18, 1916 Amy Lowell - Patterns Jan 18, 1919 H. D. - Helen Jan 18, 1920 e.e. cummings - in Just- Period: Jan 18, 1920 to Jan 18, 1930 Harlem Reinassance Period: Jan 18, 1920 to Jan 18, 1930 The Lost Generation Jan 18, 1925 "An AMerican Tragedy" by: Theodore Dreiser Apr 10, 1925 "The Great Gatsby" by: F. Scott Fitzgerald Period: Oct 18, 1929 to Jan 18, 1939 The Great Depression Jan 18, 1937 "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by: Zora Neale Hurston Period: Jan 18, 1939 to Jan 18, 1945 World War II Period: Jan 18, 1940 to Jan 18, 2011 Post-Modernism Period: Jan 18, 1947 to Jan 18, 1991 The Cold War Period: Jan 18, 1950 to Jan 18, 1960 The Beat Generation Jan 18, 1951 "The Catcher in the Rye" by: J. D. Salinger Jan 18, 1953 "The adventures of Augie March" by: Saul Bellow Jan 19, 1960 "To Kill a Mockingbird" by: Harper Lee Jul 2, 1964 Civil Rights Jan 18, 1984 "The House on Mango Street" by: Sandra Cisneros Jan 18, 1985 Stephen Crane- In the desert- Period: Jan 18, 1990 to Jan 18, 2011 Spoken Word
