American Literature Timeline

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  • Romanticism

  • The American Revolution

    The American Revolution

  • The United States Constitution

  • The War of 1812

  • Period: to

    Transcendentalism

  • The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

  • Realism

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stower

  • Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

  • American Civil War

  • Gilded Age

  • Naturalism

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

  • A Hazard of New Fortunes by William Dean Howells

  • Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson

  • The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

  • Modernism

    Modernism

  • World War 1

  • Dadaism

  • Ulysses by James Joyce

  • The Harlem Renaissance

    The Harlem Renaissance

  • Surrealism

  • The Great Gatsby - Scott F. Fitzgerald

    The Great Gatsby - Scott F. Fitzgerald

  • The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

  • The Great Depression

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

    Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

  • World War 2

  • Cold War

  • Post-Modernism

    Post-Modernism

  • The Beat Generation

    The Beat Generation

  • Moby Dick by Herman Melville

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

    The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

  • Vietnam War

  • Vietnam War

  • Alphabetic Africa by Walter Abish

  • Barack Obama becomes the first black president