American Literature Timeline By susie-villacis Jan 18, 1765 Gothic fiction Jan 18, 1800 A Soldier and a Sailor by Lesley Nelson-Burns american folk song Jan 18, 1800 George Collins by George Collins american folk song Jan 18, 1832 Victorian era Jan 1, 1836 Transcendentalism Jan 18, 1846 mexican-american war Jan 18, 1848 Pre-Raphaelites Jan 18, 1848 Sweet Betsey From Pike by Sweet Betsey From Pike american folk song Jan 18, 1861 The american civil war Jan 18, 1865 Abraham lincoln became president Jan 18, 1870 Symbolists Jan 18, 1884 Oh My Darling, Clementine by Basia Bulat american folk song Feb 1, 1885 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Jan 18, 1898 Spanish- American War Jan 18, 1902 THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James Jan 18, 1914 World War I Jan 18, 1915 The Great Titanic by Unknown americna folk song Jan 18, 1916 A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce Jan 1, 1920 Modernism Jan 1, 1921 The Harlem Renaissance Feb 2, 1922 ULYSSES by James Joyce Jan 1, 1925 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Jan 18, 1929 The great depression Jan 18, 1929 THE SOUND AND THE FURYby William Faulkner Jan 18, 1935 Magic realism Feb 1, 1937 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Jan 1, 1939 World War II Jan 18, 1945 the cold war Jan 1, 1950 The Beat Generation Jan 18, 1950 korean war Jan 18, 1950 Postcolonial literature Jan 1, 1951 Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger Jan 18, 1955 Civil Rights movement Jan 18, 1957 ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand Jan 1, 1960 Post-Modernism
