American Literature Timeline

By sirague
  • American Independance

    American Independance

    America won against those British people
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    Romanticism

    movement emphasizing emotion and imagination

  • The Star-Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key

    US trap music
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    Transcendentalism

    Philosophical movement about nature = people, god in everyone, non-violence, JUSTICE LEAGUE of the mid 1800s.

  • Civil Disobediance by Henry David Thoreau

    FUCK THE SYSTEM

  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau

    nature is awesome

  • Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

    song
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    Civil War

    North fought South over a disagreement about certain matters
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    Naturalism

    heredity and environment control people
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

    Published in England December 1884, United States February 1885
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    Stream of Consciousness

    early 19th-century. fiction where they would write thoughts down.
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    Imagism

    poetry based on image rather than theme
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    Modernism

    Literary movement spurred post WWl
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    The Harlem Renaissance

    Cultural Movement centered around african americans.
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    The Roaring 20s

    economic prosperity
  • The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Book about some rich guy and this other guy and some events
  • A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway

    A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway

    goodbye arms
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    The Great Depression

    Bad $ times
  • 21st Amendment

    21st Amendment

    Prohibition was legally ended
  • Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

    Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

    the tropics need kemo
  • The Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

    The Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

    a book thats is filled with an abundant use of the the word "and"
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

    The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

    book about angry grapes
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    WW2

    World War 2
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Japanese bombed us. :(
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    The Beat Generation

    experimentation with drugs and sexuality, eastern religion, idealizing of exuberant, unexpurged means of expression and being, Cultural movement.
  • The Catcher in the Rye written by J.D. Salinger

    The Catcher in the Rye written by J.D. Salinger

    Kid goes crazy and does some things in New York city during the winter
  • Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

    Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

    some book about how books are bad.
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding

    Lord of the Flies by William Golding

    this kid owned alot of insects

  • America by Allen Grinsberg

    Beat poem
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    Post-Modernism

    Did we study this?
  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11

    we landed on the MOON and this is my birthday
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    Spoken Word

    expression through speaking voice
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    The 1990s

    the decade when the greatest generation of all time was born.
  • September 11

    September 11

    terrorist attack on the world trade center

  • Davin Rims by Mac Dre

    Bay Area Song