Journey Through The American Literary Movement

The Enlightenment

Period: Jan 2, 1607 to Jan 2, 1800

http://www.online-literature.com/periods/enlightenment.php
Religious leaders didn't have much power. People practiced Deism. The Enlightenment changed the length between Europe and the American colonies.

The Age of Faith

Period: Jan 2, 1607 to Jan 2, 1750

http://pdshare.tripod.com/Colperiod.html
The Age of Faith was big in England but was a part of American Literature. The Native Americans, Puritans, and Pilgrims were part of this period.

The Age of Faith: American Event

Jan 7, 1607

http://pdshare.tripod.com/Colperiod.html
Puritans and Pilgrims were a part of the "The Age of Faith" and were big in this period.

The Age of Reason

Period: Jan 2, 1750 to Jan 2, 1800

http://www.online-literature.com/periods/enlightenment.php
The Age of Reason is a period that is also called the enlightenment that was around the 18th century and ideas and activities were an influence.

The Age of Faith: Jonathan Edwards

Jan 7, 1754

http://etcweb.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/edwards_jonathan.html
"The Freedom of the Will"

The Age of Reason: American Event

Jan 6, 1776

http://www.online-literature.com/periods/enlightenment.php
Thomas Paine wrote "Commen Sence" to help get independence in america.

Romanticism

Period: Jan 2, 1800 to Jan 2, 1855

http://www.online-literature.com/periods/romanticism.php
Romanticism is fighting for knowledge, schedules and interesting points in a large space.

The Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jan 3, 1836

http://www.online-literature.com/emerson/ "Nature"

The Transcendentalist: American Event

Jan 6, 1836

http://www.online-literature.com/periods/transcendentalism.php
Ralph Waldo Emerson was the father of the Transcendentalist movement.

The Age of Reason: Thomas Jefferson

Jan 6, 1836

http://www.online-literature.com/elbert-hubbard/journeys-vol-three/2/
"Franklin's Journal"

The Transcendentalists

Period: Jan 2, 1840 to Jan 2, 1855

http://www.online-literature.com/periods/transcendentalism.php
Trascendentalists understood truth, knowlege and religion and represented the new ways of understanding these things.

Romanticism: Edgar Allan Poe

Jan 3, 1840

http://www.online-literature.com/poe/ “The Fall of the House of Usher”

Realism:Frederick Douglas

Jan 3, 1845

http://www.online-literature.com/frederick_douglass/
"A Narrative on the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave"

Romanticism: American Event

Jan 6, 1850

http://www.online-literature.com/periods/romanticism.php
Nathaniel Hawthorne became the master of symbolism.

Romanticism: Nathaniel Hathorne

Jan 3, 1851

http://www.online-literature.com/hawthorne/ "The House of Seven Gables"

Realism

Period: Jan 2, 1865 to Jan 2, 1915

http://www.online-literature.com/periods/realism.php
Realism was a collection of nature's art and details that are real.

Realism: Mart Twain

Jan 4, 1876

http://www.online-literature.com/twain/
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"

Naturalism

Period: Jan 2, 1880 to Jan 2, 1900

http://www.online-literature.com/periods/naturalism.php
Naturalism is a outgrowth that makes sence and had Realism in it.

New Poetic Forms: American Event

Jan 7, 1881

http://www.online-literature.com/dickinson/
Emily Dickenson and Walt Whitman was the most original poets.

Realism: American Event

Jan 6, 1884

http://www.online-literature.com/periods/realism.php
Samuel Clemens known as Mark Twain wrote "The Adventures of Hukleberry Finn" which showed racial awareness around that time period.

Naturalism: American Event

Jan 6, 1893

http://www.online-literature.com/periods/naturalism.php Stephen Crane wrote the first american naturalist book called "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" which took alot to write and used alot of dialect.

Naturalism: Jack London

Jan 4, 1903

http://www.online-literature.com/london/
"Call of the Wild"

Modernism

Period: Jan 2, 1914 to Jan 2, 1939

http://www.online-literature.com/periods/modernism.php
Modernism is a 20th century period in English literature that the people had deep feelings against the Victorian culture and aesthetic.

Modernism: T.S. Eliot

Jan 5, 1917

http://www.online-literature.com/ts-eliot/
"Prufrock and Other Observations"

The Harlem Renassiance

Period: Jan 2, 1920 to Jan 2, 1940

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/harlemrenaissance.html
The Harlem Renassiance was a periond in Harlem that involved a group of writers and Harlem became the place for urban black people.

Modernism: American Event

Jan 6, 1920

http://www.online-literature.com/periods/modernism.php
Formed a group of writers and thinkers called the Lost Generation.

Modernism:F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jan 5, 1925

http://www.online-literature.com/fitzgerald/
"The Great Gatsby"

The Harlem Renaissance: American Event

Jan 6, 1926

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/harlemrenaissance.html
Carl Van Vechten wrote "Nigger Heaven" which was all about the African-American culture.

The Harlem Renassiance:Zora Neale Hurston

Jan 6, 1937

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/hurston.html
"Their Eyes Were Watching God"

Contemporary Literature

Period: Jan 2, 1939 to Jan 2, 2013

http://www.studyguide.org/am_lit_timeline_contemporary.htm
Comtemporary literature is a period that people learned to communicate when getting through situations, different types and races of writers were formed, and people learned to get along better over the years.

Contemporary: American Event

Jan 6, 1939

http://www.studyguide.org/am_lit_timeline_contemporary.htm
All different races of writers were formed.

New Poetic Forms: Emily Dickenson

Jan 2, 1944

http://www.online-literature.com/dickinson/ "“Wild Nights! Wild Nights!”

Contemporary Literature: J.D. Salinger

Jan 6, 1951

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/salinger.html
"The Catcher in the Rye"