American Literature

Puritan Literature

Period: Jan 1, 1500 to Jan 1, 1600

Hope - Jeremiah Burroughs

Native American Literature

Period: Sep 4, 1500 to Sep 4, 2012

Gerald Vizenor - Fugitive Poses

Revolutionary Literature

Period: Sep 4, 1700 to Sep 4, 1800

Declaration of Independence - Thomas Jefferson

Gothic Literature

Period: Sep 4, 1764 to Sep 4, 1912

The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole

American Revoulutionary War

Period: Sep 4, 1775 to Sep 4, 1783

Romanticism

Period: Sep 4, 1800 to Sep 4, 1840

Edgar Allen Poe - The Raven

Trancendentalism

Period: Sep 4, 1836 to Sep 4, 1860

Compensation - Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Civil War

Period: Sep 4, 1861 to Sep 4, 1865

Realism/Naturalism

Period: Sep 4, 1865 to Sep 4, 1910

Stephen Crane - Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Modernism

Period: Sep 4, 1900 to Sep 4, 1965

James Joyce - Eveline

World War I

Period: Sep 4, 1914 to Sep 4, 1918

Harlem Renaissance

Period: Sep 4, 1920 to Sep 4, 1940

The Way of White People - Langston Hughes

The Great Depression

Period: Sep 4, 1929 to Sep 4, 1939

Regionalism

Period: Sep 4, 1930 to Sep 4, 1935

An Old Man's Winter Night - Robert Frost

Contemporary Literature

Period: Sep 4, 1939 to Sep 4, 2012

Isabel Allende - House of Spirits

World War II

Period: Sep 4, 1939 to Sep 4, 1945