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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Literature Over Time
Native American Literature Information
Throughout time, the Native Americans have passed stories generation to generation orally, and each of the speakers changes the tone of the story, and can impact an individual differently. The Native Americans believed that Nature was connected to them, and without nature they could not exist. Many times, when they spoke of the nature that surrounded them, they didn’t see them as -
Period: Jan 1, 1472 to
Puritan Literature
Purtian Literature was first orginated in the 16th and 17th century, despite the time period, there have been few if any books found from this time period. Puritans often spoke of god in the pieces, guiding the readers into their beliefs and their way of life.They often told you how a person should behave in public. The puritans felt that their purpose for writing down anything was to keep a consistent form of religion. Puritan literature was based entirely on their religion and the spread of it -
Holy Violence, by Thomas Watson
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A Modell of Christian Charity by John Winthrop
A Modell of Christian Charity by John Winthrop Published in 1631, this piece written by John Winthrop explains his views on how to maintain a Puritan society and how to have it loyal to God. Here is where he used an excerpt from the bible to describe his mission for the American colonies, "a City upon a Hill," he used this to describe a holy place entirely devoted to God. -
The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung in America by Anne Bradstreet
Published in 1647, this piece written by Anne Bradstreet consisted of several poems. It was not seen for a woman to publish any works in this time period, she was the first to publicate anything in American history. -
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Published in 1667, These variations of poetic verse were bound together in a book by John Milton. These poems consist of biblical references and how to live life. One of the more famous poems was based on the Bibles section of "A Fall of a Man where it speaks of Adam and Eve's temptation and the fallen Angel Michael, and both of their explusions from the Garden of Eden -
Marriage à la mode by John Dryden
Published in 1671, It is written in a combination of prose, blank verse and heroic couplets aimed towards the public. Describes as a brilliant comedy and as a Restoration comedy. -
Love for Love by William Congreve
Published in 1695, This piece involved a woman who is given 4000 euros for her debts and is told to linger with a man named Ben, and in the end she becoms engaged and married to Ben's brother, Sir Samson. -
The Way of the World by William Congreve
In this play written by William Congreve there is a man who is at risk of losing a 6000 euros inheritance and struggles to maintain his inheritance, by the end of the play, a woman helps him, marries him and gets his 6000 euro inheritance. -
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Gothic Literature
Gothic Fiction is an era in literature where authors felt a sort of depression and expressed it in their literary works through horror stories and gory scenes. They often speak of the supernatural and monsters that would terrorize people, as well as people with horrible lives, filled of tragedy. -
Letters on the English, by Voltaire
It is said that this book defined the genre of the Enlightenment. In the various sections of this book, Voltaire addresses several things in the bible, and his personal beliefs, as well as politics. -
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Enlightenment Literature
First seen in the ending of the 17th century is the englishment, a period where we begin to question the common way of thinking and how we are able to change it and make it better. Many of the literary pieces of this time period supported this belief for change and more logical ideals. -
Candide by Voltaire, 1759
Candide is a young body who grows up in troubled surroundings and eventually begins to travel and face several troubles along the way, ultimately ending in peace on a small farm, with a small family. -
The Bear Woman, part of the Blackfoot Tribes
The Bear Legend, Blackfoot This legend has to do with a woman and her younger brothers and sisters, and how the eldest refuses to marry, though it isn't said, she is tied to nature and marries a bear. Full of spite, the father sends the village to kill the bear she is married to and she herself becomes a bear and terrorizes the town, in the end she dies, and her brothers and sisters go to live in the sky. -
O-gi-maw-kwe Mit-I-gwa-ki, by Simon Pokagon
Preview of O-gi-maw-kwe Mit-I-gwa-ki This was one of the first books that Native Americans published that spoke over their traditional life. Simon wrote this book to inform the Natives of how life was before American settlement. His book discusses the traditions and rituals that were once often practices by the Natives. -
The Old Beggar, by the Apache Tribes
The Old Beggar, an Apache Legend This legend speaks of a man who consistently returns to different camps asking for food to live on, his wife and children prank him in an attempt to make him stop begging and he continuously believes he is under attack. -
The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine, 1794
This book explains how the Enlightment was working and what it was about, how the time period was changing the world around them and how it could benefit the future. -
The Vampyre by John William Polidori, 1819
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Romanticism
A period in the beginning and middle of the 19th century that began to challenge the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment that spoke over nature and logical sciences. This literary time period was considered to be a reaction to the Industrial Revolution. It challenged the Enlightenment because it tried to prove that not all can be answered by reason. They took a different view on the world, more adventurous, like the Middle Ages. -
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Regionalism
Another outgrowth of Realism, Regionalism in literature is the tendency among certain authors to write about specific geographical areas. the distinct culture of an area, including its speech, customs, beliefs, and history. Local-color writing may be considered a type of Regionalism, but Regionalists, like the southern writers of the 1920’s, usually go beyond mere presentation of cultural idiosyncrasies and attempt. -
Frankenstein by mary Shelly
Published in 1818, this story is of a man who travels and one day is stuck in a block of ice, and begins to wish he had company, and meets a man who helps him out. Later he goes to school to study several subject, which is where his creation is made, his creation murders a member of his family maid is blamed for it. Eventually Victor becomes insane is very similar to his monster, only different in height. -
Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Feb 8 1831
This piece written by Ralph is extremely moving for he speaks of how society can change a person whole-heartedly. He says that human behaviour is a direct result of how society reacts to ones behaviour, how they change it will change how one judges someone else in society, this causing hundreds of people to become similar, and lose their individuality. -
A Son of the Forest, by WIlliam Apess
A Son of the Forest Preview The book written by William Apess describes his life as a Native American having been converted to Christianity and how life was for him because of American settlement, and how it affected his life, as well as the people around him. Years after having published this book, he continuously expanded it, his final revision having been in 1831. -
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Published in 1831, this is a dark novel written that is set in Paris and speaks of a man who is absolutely ugly and is pronounced Pope of the Fools, he falls in love with a gypsy named La Esmeralda and accidently attacks her because he knows not his own strength. He is sentenced to torture and is being ridiculed and the only person to help is La Esmeralda. La Esmeralda is killed and Quasimodo responds by killing Frollo, and later dies, encircling La Esmeralda. -
Nature, an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson
This piece written by Ralph Waldo Emerson is about his understanding of the world and how he may interpret several different situations. He says that the only way we can understand the world around us is to observe nature, an how it interacts with us. -
Trail of Tears
Personal Story on the Trail of Tears During the year of 1838, the removal of several Native Americans occured where the American settlers relocated them to the western part of the country, in this time period there were several stories told from different tribes to describe their experiences on the event, and how it impacted them, and their futures. -
The Dial
The Dial was a magazine that was issued for about 80 years that expressed the ideals of many Transcendentalist authors, and how they wanted to free these unto the public and make the world a better place. It also inspired many famous authors of that period. -
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Transcendentalist Literature
Transcendentalism is a period nineteenth-century that focused more on the individual thought, and elved into personal though and fully expressed these thoughts. It was a new way of thinking in the aspect of literature, a way to explore ones spiritual side. -
Over-Soul, Ralph Waldo Emerson
The message conveyed in this piece is the human soul is immortal, and immensely vast and beautiful, our conscious ego is slight and limited in comparison to the soul, despite the fact that we habitually mistake our ego for our true self, at some level, the souls of all people are connected, though the precise manner and degree of this connection is not spelled out. -
The Black Cat, Edgar Allan Poe
This literary piece by Edgar Allan Poe is the description of regret, it speaks of a master and his pet, and how loyal the pet was to him and one day as a result of a drunken night he stabs the cat in the eye, later he almost kills the cat but instead kills his wife, hiding the body in their cellar. Later the police come and investigate, only to find the cat behind the wall, with the dead wife. -
The Masque of the Red Death, Edgar Allan Poe
The Masque of the Red Death is set in a time where there is a man, full of ealth, and he throws a grand ball and invites everyone, but they all have to wear masks, upon a specific persons arrival, he says said person cannot come into his house. The man responds by killing everyone in spite of the wealthy man, showing him money brings nothing good into anyone's life. -
The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven is a story of a murderer terroziing a neighborhood and a citizen unknowingly in their cabin unaware of the murder, only to find the murder in their house, later murdering them. To never quote the raven again means the victim of the murderer will never be heard of, again. -
The Haunted Palace, Edgar Allan Poe
The Haunted Palace is a poem having to do with a royal family, specifically a king who is afraid of invaders entering his palace and destroying his life and family. This becomes the case and he and his family become ghosts, and continuously haunt the palace. -
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter is a book that deals with adultery and pregnancy before marriage. In the book if you were to get pregnant before getting married, or were pregnant with a married man, you were forced to wear a red letter on all of your clothing, signifying adultery. -
Annabel Lee, by Edgar Allan Poe
This poem by Edgar Allan Poe is described as gothic fiction and speaks of a couple who live on an island and have the world to themselves and always are together, until one day, the sea takes away the beloved woman, Annabel Lee . -
Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
Published in October of 1851, Moby Dick is about a few men who sign up on a voyage to set out into sea to find the famous Sperm Whale, Moby Dick. -
Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
This is a piece by Henry D. Thoreau where he dives into his spiritual finding which he discusses in this piece over a two year period while building a cabin, and expresses his personal thoughts, and how they change his views on the world. -
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Realism
Realism was a period where authors wrote literary pieces of fictional characters in real places, ultimately where they could live realistic lives and have their personal experiences expressed within a book. One of the most famous authors of this Genre, is the well known, Mark Twain. -
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
The story of Tom Sawyer begins almost as a romance where Tom is attempting to be engaged to a girl by getting her to kiss him, but she soon finds that he has been engaged before and refuses to talk to him again. Feeling as though he lacks purpose he runs away, with his friend Huck to explore the world. -
The Making of an American Citizen, Abraham Cahan
This book related to the immigrants of the time and how they were supposed to change to conform to the laws and regulations of the American public. It guided the immigrants to lead lives as "regular Americans." -
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Naturalism
Naturalism was a resulting period of realism, that entirely focused on human behavior, and the changes seen with other humans. Natrualism was folllowed with Darwin's theory of evolution. It views several paths of society and how we function because of other humans. -
The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain
In this book, there is a boy, Tom Canty, who is the youngest of a family and wishes to live a better life, in an attempt to achieve a better life he voyages out to find his prize. He switches places with a man named Edward in an attempt to experience a new world of adventure. -
The Portrait of Lady, by Henry James
This piece deals with a young girl named Isabel who was raised in New York and she is proposed to by a man whom she refuses to marry. She later marries another man to travel Europe with him, to eventually settle in Rome. -
Life on the Mississippi, by Mark Twain
Another prime example of realism in literature is Mark Twains, Life on the Mississippi, describing his life as a steamboat captain and his various adventures through America. -
The Bostonians, by Henry James
A civil war vetern returns to his home, and is taken to a feminist speech, the veteran is annoyed by the speec but falls in love with the speaker, the man later convinces his friend to move out of her house with him, and proposes to her. -
The Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin
The protagonistis led to believe that her husband is dead and later discovers that he is alive after all. The Story of an Hour was considered controversial during the 1890s because it deals with a female protagonist who feels liberated by the news of her husband's death. -
The Damnation of Theron Ware, Harold Frederic
The novel reveals a great deal about turn of the 19th to 20th century provincial America, religious life, and the depressed state of intellectual and artistic culture in small towns. The protagonist in the story begins to question his own beliefs and his morals begin to fall as a result of this. -
The Storm, by Kate Chopin
This story is set in a period where a massive storm is brewing in a small town and family has to struggle to survive and ration their food to maintain health and well being. -
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, 1899
The awakening is a novel on a woman who lives on an island with her husband who is discontent with her life and leads on to cheat on her husband with a secret lover. By the end of the novel, she is tired of living a life she never wanted, and she goes into the ocean and drowns herself. -
The Memoirs of an American Citizen, by Robert Herrick, 1905
About an unscrupulous businessman who tells his own story and doesn't think he's unscrupulous at all - just practical. If it takes a bribe to get ahead, you bribe. Van Harrington arrives in Chicago penniless, gets a lowly job with a meat packing firm, and begins his climb up the ladder, doing whatever it takes. His family is appalled by his actions, but he rationalizes everything. At novel's end he is a US senator. Herrick, to his credit, does not have Harrington suffer much for his behavior. -
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Imagism
Favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. The Imagists rejected the sentiment and discursiveness typical of much Romantic and Victorian poetry. -
O Pioneers!, Willa Cather
The story of the family named the Bergsons, a family of immigrants in the farm country at the turn of the 20th century. The main character inherits the family farmland when her father dies, and she devotes her life to making the farm a viable enterprise at a time when other immigrant families are giving up and leaving the prairie. -
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Modern Age Literature
The Modern Age was an age of disillusionment and confusion. The period was marked by sudden and unexpected breaks with traditional ways of viewing and interacting with the world; experimentation and individualism became virtues. Modernism was set in motion, in one sense, through a series of cultural shocks such as the Great War and World War I. Modernism is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse. The modernist literary movement was driven by a desire -
The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost
This poem has to do with a man who finds himself transfixed by the possibilities of taking a different route and how it can change his life. When analyzing the significance ove the two paths, it shows he means that taken a road not traveled can bring you great pleasure, and ultimately benefit you and give you an advantage over others, -
Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson
The book consists of twenty-two stories.Each of the stories shares a specific character's past and present struggle to overcome the loneliness and isolation that seems to permeate the town. -
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Harlem Renaissance Literature
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. Though it was centered in the Harlemneighborhood of New York City, many French-speaking black writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris were also influenced by the Harlem Renaissance.The Harlem Renaissance is unofficially recognized to have spanned from about 1919 until the early or mid-1930s. -
Acquainted with the Night, By Robert Frost
This poem is most often read as thesomeone having experienced depression and a vivid description of what that experience feels like. It is very ironic because he lives in a crowded city, but he constantly speaks of how isolated and alone he feels. -
Nigger Heaven by Carl Van Vechten
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The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American muckraker journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968). Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the lives of immigrants in the United States. In it he also exposed practices in the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century. The book depicts poverty, the absence of social programs, unpleasant living and working conditions, and the hopelessness prevalent among the working class, which is contrasted with the deeply rooted corr -
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Contemporary Literature
Contemporary literature is literature generally written after World War II. It portrays both poetry and prose, where prose includes works of fiction such as novels and novellas, essays, and dramatic works. The literature upholds the highest writing standards and contain a particular beauty and style. Many of these literary works became socially relevant and had the power to influence the public. -
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. – "After Ford" – in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and operant conditioning that combine to profoundly change society. -
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger.[3] Originally published for adults, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage angst, and alienation. -
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Lord of the Flies is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results. -
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
The story revolves around four characters: Dr. Aziz, his British friend Mr. Cyril Fielding, Mrs. Moore, and Miss Adela Quested. During a trip to the Marabar Caves (modeled on the Barabar Caves of Bihar),[2] Adela accuses Aziz of attempting to assault her -
The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot
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House Made of Dawn by N.Scott Momaday
House Made of Dawn by N.Scott Momaday (Kiowa/Cherokee)Momaday's novel also incorporates elements of the culture and tradition that tribes have managed to sustain on reservations, portraying the strength that can be drawn from these traditions. -
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on female black life in the 1930s in the southern United States, addressing numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture -
The Day I Finished This Timeline
I would like to thank my undying determination.
