American Literature Timeline By hsin Period: Jan 1, 1750 to Dec 1, 2001 1830s to 2000s Jan 18, 1750 Romanticism Literary Movement begins Jul 4, 1776 American Declaration of Independence adopted Sep 17, 1787 Signing of the US Constitution Jan 18, 1820 US Industrial Revolution begins Period: Jan 18, 1820 to Jan 18, 1870 US Industrial Revolution Jan 18, 1830 Second Great Awakening religious movement in US Period: Jan 18, 1830 to Jan 18, 1840 Transcendentalism Sep 8, 1836 Transcendentalism Picks up Jan 18, 1840 Dark Romanticism Jan 18, 1846 Mexican-American War begins Jan 18, 1849 A Dream within a Dream by Edgar Allen Poe Jan 18, 1850 Realism(literary Realism) begins Jan 18, 1850 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Jan 18, 1861 American Civil War begins Jan 18, 1865 Reconstruction Era begins/ End of Civil War Jan 18, 1885 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain published in US (month and date not accurate) Jan 18, 1903 Call of the Wild by Jack London Period: Jan 18, 1910 to Jan 18, 1930 Modernism in the US Jan 18, 1914 Imagism movmement Jul 28, 1914 WWI starts Jan 18, 1918 The Lost Generation movement Jan 18, 1920 Moderism picks up 1920s Jan 18, 1920 The Harlem Renaissance Era Jan 18, 1920 Dulce et Decorum est, poetry by Wilfred Own Period: Jan 18, 1920 to Jan 18, 1930 Harlem Renaissance Jan 18, 1923 Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Apr 10, 1925 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Jan 18, 1937 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Heale Hurston Jan 18, 1938 Let American be American Again by Langston Hughes Jan 18, 1939 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Jan 18, 1950 The Beat Generation comes to prominence Period: Jan 18, 1950 to Jan 18, 1960 The Beat Generation Jan 18, 1951 Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Sep 17, 1954 Lord of the Flies by William Golding Period: Jan 18, 1960 to Jan 18, 1970 Post Modernism 1960s Nov 11, 1961 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Jan 18, 1965 Era of Post-Modernism Jan 18, 1974 Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
