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American Literature Timeline

  • the star spangled banner

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    American Independence from England
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    Romanticism

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    Transcendentalism

  • Civil War

    Civil War
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    Naturalism

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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    Modernism

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    World War I

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    Dadaism

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    The Harlem Renaissance

  • Thhe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Thhe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

     An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
  • In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

    In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
  • the Wasteland – T S Eliot

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    Absurd,

    primarily in theatre, this movement responded to the seeming illogicality and purposelessness of human life in works marked by a lack of clear narrative, understandable psychological motives, or emotional catharsis
  • Miss Lonelyhearts: And the Day of the Locust by Nathanael West

     Miss Lonelyhearts: And the Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
  • Call It Sleep: A Novel by Henry Roth

     Call It Sleep: A Novel by Henry Roth
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

    Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  • World War II

    World War II
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    The Beat Generation

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    Angry Young Men

  • Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

    Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
  • "Heartbreak Hotel" by ELvis Presly

  • Howl – Allen Ginsberg

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    Post-Modernism

  • Assassination Of President Kennedy

    Assassination Of President Kennedy
  • All Along the Watchtower by Bob Dylan/Jimmi Hendrix

  • the answer is blowing in the wind by Bob Dylan

  • Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

     Absalom, Absalom!  by William Faulkner
  • Sirague's birth

    Sirague's birth
  • .Com Boom

    .Com Boom
  • Barack Obama

    Barack Obama