American Literature Timeline By jpang2 Jan 1, 1800 Romanticism Jan 1, 1812 War of 1812 Jan 1, 1830 Transcendentalism Jan 1, 1848 Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Jan 1, 1850 The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Apr 12, 1861 Civil War Jan 1, 1863 Proclamation Emancipation Jan 1, 1865 Black Codes Apr 15, 1865 Death of Lincoln Jan 1, 1880 Naturalism Dec 1, 1884 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Jan 1, 1910 Modernism Jan 1, 1914 The Wasteland by T.S. Elliot Apr 16, 1917 U.S. declares war on Germany Jan 1, 1920 The Harlem Renaissance Jan 1, 1923 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost May 19, 1923 The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens Apr 10, 1925 The Great Gatsby by F. Scot Fitzgerald Jan 1, 1936 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchel Sep 1, 1937 Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Jan 1, 1939 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Sep 1, 1939 World War 2 Jan 1, 1950 The Beat Generation Jul 16, 1951 Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Mar 18, 1956 Howl by Allen Ginsberg Jan 1, 1960 Post Modernism Jan 1, 1960 Latin America Boom Jan 1, 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Jan 1, 1963 •A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Jan 1, 1964 For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell Jan 1, 1990 Literary Realism
