American Literature Timeline By cupfruit Period: Jan 1, 1600 to Dec 30, 1800 Amatory Fiction Period: Jan 1, 1798 to Dec 31, 1870 Romanticism Period: Jan 1, 1830 to Dec 31, 1840 Transcendentalism Period: Jan 1, 1836 to Dec 31, 1840 Dark Romanticism Aug 9, 1854 Walden by Henry David Thoreau Period: Jan 1, 1883 to Dec 31, 1900 Lost Generation Period: Jan 1, 1884 to Dec 31, 1940 Naturalism Dec 1, 1884 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Period: Jan 1, 1910 to Dec 31, 1945 Modernism Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918 World War 1 Period: Jan 1, 1916 to Dec 31, 1922 Dadaism Period: Jan 1, 1920 to Dec 31, 1930 Harlem Renaissance Jan 1, 1923 & by E.E Cummings Apr 10, 1925 The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald Jan 1, 1926 White Buildings by Hart Crane Period: Sep 4, 1929 to Dec 31, 1940 Great Depression Period: Jan 1, 1930 to Dec 31, 1940 Dust Bowl Oct 9, 1937 Their Eyes Were Watching God Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945 World War 2 Dec 7, 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Dec 31, 1991 Cold War Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Jan 1, 2012 Post-Modernism Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Dec 31, 1960 Beat Generation Jul 16, 1951 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger Jan 1, 1952 Invisible Man by ralph Ellison Jul 29, 1958 Nasa Formed Jul 1, 1959 Naked Lunch by William S.Burroughs Jan 1, 1967 What the Grass Says by Charles Simic Jan 1, 1968 Once by Alice Walker Mar 12, 1977 The Elements of San Joaquin by Gary Soto Jun 20, 1991 Mao II by Don DeLilo Jan 1, 1997 The Best Cigarette by Billy Collins
