Timeline: A Brief Look Through Time

Period: Jan 1, 1607 to Jan 1, 1750

The Age of Faith

A time in history when religion had dominated lives with works of sermons, diaries, personal narratives, or slave narratives.

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Period: Jan 1, 1607 to Dec 31, 1800

Enlightenment

A time when intellectual reason came into context with writings. Facts and scientific reason was a major role during the Englightenment in Europe. The enlightenment was spreading ideas through America and new inventions were
being created.
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Jan 1, 1650

Anne Bradstreet publishes Tenth Muse

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/428

Period: Jan 1, 1750 to Jan 1, 1800

The Age of Reason

The Age of Reason consists of writings with pamphlets, persuasiveness, and ornate style. As reason grows so does the patriotism.
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Jan 1, 1760

Industrial Revolution began

The Industrial Revolution ended around 1850.

May 28, 1775

American Revolutionary War begins

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Jan 1, 1776

Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense

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Period: Jan 1, 1800 to Jan 1, 1855

Romanticism

Romanticism was a period in time where literature and art took a new turn and began to focus strictly on imagination and emotion. Romantic artists believed in freedom from boundaries. It began in Germany and spread throughout
Europe in the early 1800’s and soon after spread into the United States.
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Period: Jan 1, 1840 to Jan 1, 1855

The Transcendentalists

This period stressed individualism, intuition, nature and self- reliance.
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May 1, 1840

Mexican War

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Jan 1, 1841

Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes "Self-Reliance"

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Jan 1, 1845

Edgar Allen Poe - The Raven

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Nov 14, 1851

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

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Jan 1, 1852

Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was published in book form

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Jan 1, 1861

Civil War; betwen 1861-1865

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Jan 1, 1865

Walt Whitman publishes "Drum Taps"

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Period: Jan 1, 1865 to Jan 1, 1915

Realism

Realism was the reaction against romanticism. It is broadly defined as "verisimilitude" and it represents the middle-class life.
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May 1, 1866

Reconstruction: Post Civil War

Post-War

Period: Jan 1, 1880 to Jan 1, 1940

Naturalism

Naturalism is a certain type of literature that uses scientific principles like detachment and objectivity in its study towards a better understanding of human beings. Most pieces of literature were written with a scientific method. Naturalism is similar to realism but naturalism is more focused on one specific idea.
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Oct 5, 1895

Stephen Crane - The Red Badge of Courage

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Jan 1, 1899

Kate Chopin publishes "The Awakening"

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Period: May 28, 1914 to May 28, 1939

Modernism

Modernism is seen as a large category of aestetic, political, social movements during the 19th century. The United States was going through World War I and later the Great Depression.

Jul 28, 1914

World War 1

Period: Jan 1, 1920 to Jan 1, 1940

The Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance is seen as a movement in which African American works progressed. This was also a time of jazz and soul.

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Jan 1, 1925

F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes "The Great Gatsby"

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Jan 1, 1926

Langston Hughes publishes his poem "Harlem"

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Jan 1, 1929

The Great Depression

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Jan 1, 1933

E,E, Cummings published Eimi

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Jun 16, 1933

FDR's New Deal was passed by Congress

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Period: Jan 1, 1939 to May 28, 2012

Contemporary Literature

Contemporary Literatrue is a time where most writings came from narratives, autobiographicals, and emotion provoking works.
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May 28, 1939