American Literature Timeline | Timetoast Timelines

Period: Jan 1, 1600 to Dec 30, 1800

Amatory Fiction
Period: Jan 1, 1798 to Dec 31, 1870

Romanticism
Period: Jan 1, 1830 to Dec 31, 1840

Transcendentalism
Period: Jan 1, 1836 to Dec 31, 1840

Dark Romanticism
Aug 9, 1854

Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Period: Jan 1, 1883 to Dec 31, 1900

Lost Generation
Period: Jan 1, 1884 to Dec 31, 1940

Naturalism
Dec 1, 1884

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Period: Jan 1, 1910 to Dec 31, 1945

Modernism
Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

World War 1
Period: Jan 1, 1916 to Dec 31, 1922

Dadaism
Period: Jan 1, 1920 to Dec 31, 1930

Harlem Renaissance
Jan 1, 1923

& by E.E Cummings
Apr 10, 1925

The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Jan 1, 1926

White Buildings by Hart Crane
Period: Sep 4, 1929 to Dec 31, 1940

Great Depression
Period: Jan 1, 1930 to Dec 31, 1940

Dust Bowl
Oct 9, 1937

Their Eyes Were Watching God
Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945

World War 2
Dec 7, 1941

Attack on Pearl Harbor
Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Dec 31, 1991

Cold War
Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Jan 1, 2012

Post-Modernism
Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Dec 31, 1960

Beat Generation
Jul 16, 1951

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger
Jan 1, 1952

Invisible Man by ralph Ellison
Jul 29, 1958

Nasa Formed
Jul 1, 1959

Naked Lunch by William S.Burroughs
Jan 1, 1967

What the Grass Says by Charles Simic
Jan 1, 1968

Once by Alice Walker
Mar 12, 1977

The Elements of San Joaquin by Gary Soto
Jun 20, 1991

Mao II by Don DeLilo
Jan 1, 1997

The Best Cigarette by Billy Collins