Timeline of American Literature-Annabelle Scully

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    Early American Liturature

    The styles of writing from this time period was very original, straight forward, and focused on the future.
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    Salem Witch Trials

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    American Romanticism

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    Realism

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    Modernism

  • Great Gatsby

    Great Gatsby

    Written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. His style of writing was poetic, included moments of death, irony, and was very sophisticated. It included much drama describing a time period of greed, valuing wealth, and the American Dream. During this time, "Mrs Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf and "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler was published.

  • Harlem Renaissance

    Because this happened during the Great Depression, writings consisted of themes like alienation and marginalization in the American society.
  • Of Mice & Men

    Of Mice & Men

    Was a fiction novel with describing the lives of farm workers during the Great Depression. And the deepest struggles of the disabled workers.

  • Barn Burning

  • The Crucible

    Written by Arthur Miller in 1950's