Timeline: American Literature Timeline | Timetoast

Period: Jan 18, 1790 to Jan 18, 1870

Southwestern Humor
Period: Jan 18, 1830 to Jan 18, 1840

Transcendentalism
Period: Jan 18, 1830 to Jan 18, 1840

Transcendentalism
Period: Jan 18, 1830 to Jan 18, 1900

American Realism
Period: Jan 18, 1840 to Jan 18, 1860

Slave Narratives
Jan 18, 1852

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stow
Feb 18, 1885

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Period: Jan 18, 1890 to Jan 18, 1910

American Naturalism
Period: Jun 1, 1914 to Nov 1, 1918

World War I
Period: Jun 1, 1914 to Nov 1, 1918

World War I
Jan 18, 1915

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Jan 18, 1915

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Period: Jan 1, 1918 to Jan 1, 1930

Modernism

Modernism became extremely popular after World War I, and was prevelant in the era of the 1920's known as the "Jazz Age". By 1930, Modernism became a part of established ideals.
Period: Jan 18, 1920 to Jan 18, 1940

The Harlem Renaissance
Period: Jan 18, 1920 to Jan 18, 1930

The Roaring Twenties
Apr 10, 1925

The Great Gatsby By F Scott. Fitzgerald
Jan 18, 1929

All Quiet On the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Jan 18, 1932

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Jan 18, 1936

Gone With the Wind
Nov 22, 1936

JFK Assassination
Jan 18, 1937

Their Eyes Were Watching God
Jan 18, 1939

The Grapes of Wrath By John Steinbeck
Period: Jan 18, 1939 to Jan 18, 1945

World War II
Period: Jan 18, 1950 to Jan 18, 1970

Post-Modernism
Period: Jan 18, 1950 to Jan 18, 1960

The Beat Generation
Period: Jan 18, 1950 to Jan 18, 1953

Korean War
Period: Jan 18, 1950 to Jan 18, 1953

Korean War
Jan 1, 1951

The Catcher in the Rye By J.D. Salinger
Jan 18, 1954

Melody of Love by The Ink Spots
Jan 18, 1955

Hey Porter by Johhny Cash
Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Jan 18, 1975

Vietnam War
Jan 18, 1961

Catch-22 By Joseph Heller
Jan 18, 1966

Strangers in the Night by Frank Sinatra
Jan 18, 1966

Strangers in the Night by Frank Sinatra
Apr 4, 1968

MLK Assassination
Period: Jan 18, 1970 to Jan 18, 2011

Contemporary Period
Jan 18, 1971

I Feel Good By James Brown
Oct 3, 1990

Fall of the Berlin Wall