American Literature By skiel47 Period: 1700 to 1800 The Revolutionary Period (1700–1800) Period: 1800 to 1880 The Period of Romanticism and Transcendentalism (1800–1880) 1830 The Colonial and Early National Period (17th century to 1830) Period: 1860 to 1930 American Realism and Naturalism (1860–1930) 1912 American Modernism and the Literature of the First Half of the 20th Century