Timeline: American Literary Movements

Period: Jan 1, 1607 to Dec 31, 1750

The Age of Faith

http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/events-timelines/14-american-history-timeline.htm
Most of this is histories, journals, personal poems, sermons, and diaries. Most of this literature is either utilitarian, very personal, or religious.

Period: Jan 1, 1607 to Dec 31, 1800

Enlightenment

http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/events-timelines/14-american-history-timeline.htm
Called the Enlightenment period due to the influence of science and logic, this period is marked in US literature by political writings.

Jan 7, 1609

Henry Hudson explores North eastern North America including the Hudson River

Jan 7, 1731

jonathan edwards

http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap2/edwards.html
God Glorified in the Work of Redemption, By the Greatness of Man's Dependence on Him

Period: Jan 1, 1750 to Dec 31, 1800

The Age of reason

http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/events-timelines/14-american-history-timeline.htm
There is a lack of emphasis and dependence on the Bible and more use of common sense (logic) and science.

Jan 7, 1776

Thomas Paine

Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America

Jul 4, 1776

Thomas Jefferson presents the United States Declaration of Independence

http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/events-timelines/14-american-history-timeline.htm

Period: Jan 1, 1800 to Dec 31, 1855

Romanticism

http://staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm
Romanticism was a literary and artistic movement of the nineteenth century that arose in reaction against eighteenth-century Neoclassicism and placed a premium on fancy, imagination, emotion, nature, individuality, and exotica.

Jan 8, 1803

Louisiana Purchase Treaty

http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/events-timelines/14-american-history-timeline.htm

Jan 7, 1837

Battle of the Alamo

http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/events-timelines/14-american-history-timeline.htm

Period: Jan 1, 1840 to Dec 31, 1855

The Transcendentalists

http://staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm
an American literary and philosophical movement of the nineteenth century. The Transcendentalists, who were based in New England, believed that intuition and the individual conscience “transcend” experience and thus are better guides to truth than are the senses and logical reason.

Jan 7, 1845