Timeline: American Literary Movements Timeline Project | Timetoast

Period: Jan 1, 1607 to Jan 1, 1800

Enlightenment

Science and Industrialism were spreading in the United States and Europe, leading to a more logical, rational society. Cricism and argument were the way people communicated.
Period: Jan 2, 1607 to Jan 1, 1750

The Age of Faith
Jan 1, 1701

Yale was founded

http://www.online-literature.com/henry-augustin-beers/studies-american-letters/1/
Period: Jan 1, 1750 to Jan 1, 1800

Age of Reason

http://www.online-literature.com/henry-augustin-beers/studies-american-letters/2/
People were questioning religion more openly and that went into the literature deeply.
Jan 1, 1754

Inquiry into the Freedom of Will, Jonathan Edwards

http://www.online-literature.com/henry-augustin-beers/studies-american-letters/1/
Jan 1, 1765

The Stamp Act of 1765

One of the acts that Great Britan passed which directly led to the revolutionary war.
Jan 1, 1794

"The Age of Reason" Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine releases the first part of "The Age of Reason"
Jan 1, 1800

Thomas Jefferson is nominated as president

http://www.ushistory.org/us/20a.asp
Period: Jan 1, 1800 to Jan 1, 1855

Romanticism

Had a focus on imagination, fantasy, individualism, and creativity.
Jan 1, 1833

All states abandon state-supported church

http://www.ushistory.org/us/12b.asp
Jan 1, 1839

"Voices of the Night; and other Poems" Henry Wadsworth

http://www.online-literature.com/henry_longfellow/
Jan 1, 1840

"The Dial" Ralph Waldo Emerson

http://www.online-literature.com/emerson/
Period: Jan 1, 1840 to Jan 1, 1855

The transcendentalists

Based in New england. Believed that human intuition and conciense transcended logic and experience.
http://staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm
Jan 1, 1848

First Women's rights convention

Organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
http://www.ushistory.org/us/26c.asp
Jan 1, 1855

"Leaves of Grass" Herman Melville

http://www.online-literature.com/periods/romanticism.php
Period: Jan 1, 1865 to Jan 1, 1915

Realism

Art made from the facts of real life.

http://staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm
Jan 1, 1866

7000 presidential pardons have been granted

http://www.ushistory.org/us/35a.asp
Jan 1, 1875

"Memoranda During the War" Walt Whitman

http://www.online-literature.com/walt-whitman/
Jan 1, 1880

"A Tramp Abroad"

http://www.online-literature.com/twain/
Jan 1, 1881

"Life and Times of Frederick Douglas" Frederick Douglas

http://www.online-literature.com/frederick_douglass/
Jan 1, 1898

Hawaii annexed

http://www.ushistory.org/us/44b.asp
Jan 1, 1908

"The Iron Heel"

http://www.online-literature.com/london/
Period: Jan 1, 1914 to Jan 1, 1939

Modernisim

A time of war, disillusionment and chaos
http://staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm
Jan 8, 1917

"Prufrock and Other Obvservations" T.S. Eliot

http://www.online-literature.com/ts-eliot/
Jan 1, 1919

The Paris Peace Conference

http://www.ushistory.org/us/45d.asp
Period: Jan 1, 1920 to Jan 1, 1940

The Harlem Renaissance

Arfican American creativity focused in Harlem New York
Jan 8, 1922

"The Beautiful and the Damned" F. Scott Fitzgerald

http://www.online-literature.com/fitzgerald/
Oct 24, 1929

Market crash of 1929

http://www.ushistory.org/us/48a.asp
Period: Jan 1, 1939 to Jan 8, 2013

Contemporary Literature
Jan 1, 1945

WWII ends and the cold war begins

http://www.ushistory.org/us/52a.asp
Jan 8, 2013

"The Catcher in the Rye" J.D. Salinger

http://www.ushistory.org/us/53f.asp