American Literature Timeline

  • Gothic fiction

  • A Soldier and a Sailor by Lesley Nelson-Burns

    american folk song
  • George Collins by George Collins

    american folk song
  • Victorian era

  • Transcendentalism

  • mexican-american war

    mexican-american war
  • Pre-Raphaelites

  • Sweet Betsey From Pike by Sweet Betsey From Pike

    american folk song
  • The american civil war

  • Abraham lincoln became president

    Abraham lincoln became president
  • Symbolists

  • Oh My Darling, Clementine by Basia Bulat

    american folk song
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • Spanish- American War

  • THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James

    THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James
  • World War I

    World War I
  • The Great Titanic by Unknown

    americna folk song
  • A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce

    A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
  • Modernism

  • The Harlem Renaissance

  • ULYSSES by James Joyce

    ULYSSES by James Joyce
  • The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

    The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The great depression

  • THE SOUND AND THE FURYby William Faulkner

    THE SOUND AND THE FURYby William Faulkner
  • Magic realism

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

    Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  • World War II

  • the cold war

  • The Beat Generation

  • korean war

  • Postcolonial literature

  • Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

    Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
  • Civil Rights movement

    Civil Rights movement
  • ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand

    ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
  • Post-Modernism