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American Literature Timeline

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    Enlightenment

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
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    Romanticism

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    Transcendentalism

  • The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

    The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Moby Dick by Herman Melville

    Moby Dick by Herman Melville
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    Reconstruction Era

  • Preseident Abraham Lincoln Dies

    Preseident Abraham Lincoln Dies
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark twain

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark twain
  • The Adventures of Hckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

    The Adventures of Hckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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    Modernism

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    World War I

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    Dadaism

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    The Harlem Renaissance

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    Surrealism

  • The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot

    The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot
  • Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

    Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
  • The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens

    The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens
  • The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald

    The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
  • Somewhere I Have Already Traveled, Gladly Beyond by E.E. Cummings

    Somewhere I Have Already Traveled, Gladly Beyond by E.E. Cummings
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    Magic Realism

  • Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

    Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

    Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
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    World War II

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    The Beat Generation

  • The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

    The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  • Howl by Allen Ginsberg

    Howl by Allen Ginsberg
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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    Post-Modernism

  • Obama Wins Presidency (First African-American leader of U.S.)

    Obama Wins Presidency (First African-American leader of U.S.)