-
Period: to
Enlightenment
Science and Industrialism were spreading in the United States and Europe, leading to a more logical, rational society. Cricism and argument were the way people communicated. -
Period: to
The Age of Faith
-
-
Period: to
Age of Reason
http://www.online-literature.com/henry-augustin-beers/studies-american-letters/2/
People were questioning religion more openly and that went into the literature deeply. -
Inquiry into the Freedom of Will, Jonathan Edwards
-
The Stamp Act of 1765
One of the acts that Great Britan passed which directly led to the revolutionary war. -
"The Age of Reason" Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine releases the first part of "The Age of Reason" -
Thomas Jefferson is nominated as president
-
Period: to
Romanticism
Had a focus on imagination, fantasy, individualism, and creativity. -
All states abandon state-supported church
-
"Voices of the Night; and other Poems" Henry Wadsworth
-
"The Dial" Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
Period: to
The transcendentalists
Based in New england. Believed that human intuition and conciense transcended logic and experience.
http://staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm -
First Women's rights convention
Organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
http://www.ushistory.org/us/26c.asp -
"Leaves of Grass" Herman Melville
-
Period: to
Realism
-
7000 presidential pardons have been granted
-
"Memoranda During the War" Walt Whitman
-
"A Tramp Abroad"
-
"Life and Times of Frederick Douglas" Frederick Douglas
-
Hawaii annexed
-
"The Iron Heel"
-
Period: to
Modernisim
A time of war, disillusionment and chaos
http://staff.gps.edu/gaither/literary_movements.htm -
"Prufrock and Other Obvservations" T.S. Eliot
-
The Paris Peace Conference
-
Period: to
The Harlem Renaissance
Arfican American creativity focused in Harlem New York -
"The Beautiful and the Damned" F. Scott Fitzgerald
-
Market crash of 1929
-
Period: to
Contemporary Literature
-
WWII ends and the cold war begins
-
"The Catcher in the Rye" J.D. Salinger