American Literature Timeline

the star spangled banner

Mar 14, 1776

Declaration of Independence

Jul 4, 1776

American Independence from England

Romanticism

Period: Mar 14, 1798 to Mar 14, 1832

Transcendentalism

Period: Jun 30, 1834 to Feb 10, 1870

Civil War

Oct 16, 1861

Naturalism

Period: Mar 14, 1865 to Mar 14, 1900

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Feb 11, 1885

Modernism

Period: Dec 14, 1910 to Mar 28, 1940

World War I

Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

Dadaism

Period: Apr 20, 1916 to Apr 20, 1922

The Harlem Renaissance

Period: Mar 11, 1920 to Mar 11, 1939

Thhe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Mar 11, 1925

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

Mar 14, 1925

In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

Mar 14, 1925

the Wasteland – T S Eliot

Mar 14, 1927

Absurd,

Period: Mar 14, 1930 to Mar 14, 1970

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

Mar 14, 1933

Call It Sleep: A Novel by Henry Roth

Mar 14, 1934

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Nov 25, 1937

World War II

May 17, 1939

The Beat Generation

Period: Mar 11, 1950 to Mar 11, 1965

Angry Young Men

Period: Mar 14, 1950 to Mar 14, 1990

Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Jul 16, 1951

Vietnam War

Nov 1, 1955

"Heartbreak Hotel" by ELvis Presly

Mar 14, 1956

Howl – Allen Ginsberg

Mar 14, 1956

Post-Modernism

Period: May 14, 1960 to Mar 11, 2012

Assassination Of President Kennedy

Nov 22, 1963

All Along the Watchtower by Bob Dylan/Jimmi Hendrix

Mar 14, 1977

the answer is blowing in the wind by Bob Dylan

Oct 31, 1978

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

Jan 30, 1991

Sirague's birth

Jul 20, 1995

.Com Boom

Jun 5, 2000

Barack Obama

Nov 5, 2008