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Transcendentalism Begins
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Tales of Grostesque and Arabesque, Edgar Allen Poe
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The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe
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The Slave Narrative Movement (1840-60)
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The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville
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Symblosim Movement
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Realism – (1865-1915)
Realism is the presentation in art of the details of actual life. Realism was also a literary movement that began during the nineteenth century and stressed the actual as opposed to the imagined or the fanciful. -
End of the Civil War and the death of Abraham Lincoln
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
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The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane
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WWI
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Modernism begins
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Modern Age – (1915-1946)
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The Harlem Renaissance
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The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Stock Market Crash
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The Great Depression begins
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Their Eye's Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
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The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
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WWII
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Still I Rise, Maya Angelou
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WWII ends
WWII ends, Atomic Age begins, creation of the United Nations, Cold War, and the beginning of the end for colonialism -
Contemporary – (1946-present)
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The Beat Generation
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Catcher in the Rye by, J.D Salinger
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Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
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Civil Rights Act is passed
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MLK died
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Post Modernism Begins
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The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost
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a pretty a day, E.E. Cummings
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Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
