Books

Literary Time Periods

By mjlenox13

  • English Settlement

    [English Settlement](www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/litfram.html)
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    Enlightenment

    During this period the shift of religion being most powerful to separation of church and state is seen
    Enlightenment
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    The Age of Faith

    Faith and religion played a major role during this time period.
    Age of Faith

  • Anne Braqdstreet writes "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America"

    Biographhy of Anne Bradstreeet
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    The Age of Reason

    Traditional beliefs were challenged and reinvented, along with the view of the world and the man. Science was a big focus
    Age of Reason

  • French and Indian War

    [French Indian War](www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/litfram.html)

  • Thomas Paine writes "Common Sense"

    [COmmon Sense](Americanhistory.unc.edu/)

  • William Cullen Bryant writes "Thanatopsis"

    [Thanatopsis](Americanhistory.unc.edu/)
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    Romanticism

    [Romsnticism](academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/rom.html)Reaction to classicism, during the time some common themes were imgination over reason, intuition over facts, interest in nature, sense of idealism, strong belief in democracy, distrust of industry, nostalgia for past, and focus on common man

  • Treaty of Ghent ends War of 1812

    [Treaty of Ghent](staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm)
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    Transcendentalists

    [Tracendentalism](plato.stanford.edu/entries/transcendentalism/)Among the transcendentalists' core beliefs was the inherent goodness of both man and nature

  • Edgar Allen Poe writes "The Raven"

    [The Raven](staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm)

  • California Gold Rush begins

    [Gold Rush](Americanhistory.unc.edu/)

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom's Cabin

    [Uncle Toms Cabin](staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm)

  • Henry David Thoreau wites Walden

    [Walden](staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm)

  • Walt Whitman writes Oh Captain! My Captain!

    [Oh Captian my Captain](Americanhistory.unc.edu/)

  • Lincoln deliver The Gettysburg Address

    [Licoln delivers gettysburg address](www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/index.html)
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    Realism

    Emphasizes details of ordianry life. depicts things as they really are. [Realism](www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/realism.htm)
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    Naturalism

    [Realism](www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/natural.htm)the viewpoint that laws of nature, as opposed to supernatural ones, operate in the universe.

  • The Statue of Liberty is dedicated in New York Harbor

    [The Statue of LIberty](gdc.gale.com/gale-literature.../literary-moveents-for-students/)

  • Stephen Crane writes "The Open Boat"

    [the open boat](gdc.gale.com/gale-literature.../literary-moveents-for-students/)

  • Kate Chopin writes "The Awakening"

    [the awakening](gdc.gale.com/gale-literature.../literary-moveents-for-students/)
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    Modernism

    expirement with form, design and purpose and a focus on primitivism are common themes of this period.
    [Modernism](www.artsmia.org/modernism/)

  • T.S. Eliot writes "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

    [T.S. Elliot Poems](gdc.gale.com/gale-literature.../literary-moveents-for-students/)
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    Harlem Renaisssance

    [Harlem Renaissance](www.jcu.edu/harlem/index.htm)known as the "New Negro Movement",

  • Great Depression begins

    The Great Depression

  • Langtson Hughes writes "Dear Lovely Death"

    [Snows of Kilimanjaron](gdc.gale.com/gale-literature.../literary-moveents-for-students/)

  • Ernest Hemigway writes "The Snows of Kilimanjaro "

    [The Snows of Kilimanjaro](Americanhistory.unc.edu/)

  • Dust Bowl

    [Dust Bowl](gdc.gale.com/gale-literature.../literary-moveents-for-students/)
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    Contemporary Literature

    [Contemporary Literature](cl.uwpress.org/)literature with its setting generally after World War II

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • J.D. Salinger writes "The Catcher in the Rye"

    [Pearl Harbor](www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/tieline/index.html)