Literature & Pop Culture Timeline

By Ms.Wagner
  • Period: to

    Slavery

  • Period: to

    Transcendentalist Movement

    :)

  • The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

  • The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe

  • The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe

  • The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

  • Hop Frog by Edgar Allan Poe

  • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • Moby Dick by Herman Melville

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau

  • Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

    :)

  • Lincoln Assasination

  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

  • Huckleberry Finn

  • Period: to

    Modernism

  • The Theory of Relativity is Published

  • The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

  • The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

  • Cubism Begins

    Cubism Begins

  • Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

    Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

  • Period: to

    World War 1

  • The Boxcar Children series - Gertrude Chandler Warner

  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

    Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

  • Hardy Boys Mystery Series - Franklin W. Dixon

  • A Farewell to Arms by Earnest Hemmingway

    A Farewell to Arms by Earnest Hemmingway

  • Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

    Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

  • Great Depression Begins

    so depressing :(

  • Nancy Drew debuts

  • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

    Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

    by Zora Neale Hurston

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Directed by William Cottrell, David Hand, Wilfred Jackson. First full length animated feature film.
  • Anthem by Ayn Rand

    Anthem by Ayn Rand

  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

  • The Grapes of Wrath

  • Superman #1 Published

    Superman #1 Published

  • The Wizard of Oz (Movie) - Victor Fleming

    The Wizard of Oz (Movie) - Victor Fleming

  • Period: to

    World War 2

  • Batman #1 Published

  • For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway

    For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway

  • Citizen Kane - Orson Welles

    Citizen Kane - Orson Welles

  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

  • The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

    The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

  • The Pearl by John Steinbeck

  • The Diary of A young Girl by Anne Frank

  • A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

    A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

  • 1984 by George Orwell

    1984 by George Orwell

    George Orwell
  • Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

    Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

  • Rebel Without A Cause released

    Rebel Without A Cause released

    starring James Dean

  • Howl by Allen Ginsberg

  • A Separate Peace by John Knowles

  • Psycho

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
  • To Kill a Mockingbrid by Harper Lee

    To Kill a Mockingbrid by Harper Lee

  • Period: to

    Berlin Wall

  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

    A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

  • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

  • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

  • Assasination of John F. Kennedy

  • Dr. Strangelove or; How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    outlawed discrimination based on race, sex, religion, national origin

  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X

  • Selma to Montgomery March

    MLK was some dude.
  • The Graduate

    The Graduate

    Directed by Mike Nichols
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    directed by Stanley Kubrick
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

  • Woodstock Festival

  • Period: to

    Toni Morrison's Career

  • Love Story by Erich Segal

  • The Godfather

  • Watergate Scandal

  • Star Wars

    Directed by George Lucas.
  • Orientalism published

    Orientalism published

    Critical theory text published by Edward Said. This text is the foundation for Post-Colonial Theory.

  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

  • Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews

  • Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

  • A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

    A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

  • The Shining

    The Shining

    shlardy

  • Madonna's 1st Album

  • The Terminator film released

  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off

  • Dirty Dancing by Emile Ardolino

  • Beloved by Toni Morrison

    Beloved by Toni Morrison

  • Glory

    (the movie with Matthew Broderick)

  • Goodfellas

  • The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

  • Jurassic Park

  • Forrest Gump

    Life is like a box of chocolates!

  • Pulp Fiction

  • Austin Powers; International Man of Mystery

  • Titanic

  • You were born

  • Saving Private Ryan

  • Britney Spears' 1st Album

  • The Blair Witch Project

    Directed by Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick

  • the first iPod

  • The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

  • No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy