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Transcendentalism
New Era in thought and in Philosophy -
A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allen Poe
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Period: to
America
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
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World War 1
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Black Mountain Poets
Charles Olson
Robert Duncan -
Modernism
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Confessional Poets
Sylvia Plath
Robert Lowell -
New York Poets
Kenneth Koch
JOhn Ashbery -
I, Too, Sing America By Langston Hughes
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The Great Gatsby By F. Scott FItzgerald
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The Harlem Renaissance
Explosion of African American culture in Harlem -
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora N. Hurston
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World War 2
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Drama
Arthur Miller
David Mamet -
The Beat Generation
Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac -
Catcher In The Rye By J.D. Salinger
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Vietnam War
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Howl By Allen Ginsberg
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On The Run By Jack Keourac
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I Carry Your Heart With Me E.E. Cummings
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Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
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Civil RIghts Movement
Spanned from 1955-1968 -
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest By Ken Kesey
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Notes Of A Dirty Old Man By Charles Bukowski
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Post Modernism
Hippies, Free Love, alternative ways of living -
Hip Hop
Began in the 1970s -
Post Office By Charles Bukowski
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Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski
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Realism
George Eliot
Gustave Flaubert -
Yugoslav Wars
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Iraq War