American Literature Timeline

By evegas

  • Romanticism

    1800-60s

  • Transcendentalism

    Gah. :3
    Transcendentalism was a brief movement in history that lasted roughly from the 1830s to 40s.
    Day and year are annoying me. Ignore.

  • Anti-Transcendentalism

    1830-40s.
    Used symbolism.
    Believed sin, pain, and evil exist.
    "Dark", "romantics"...

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, is published.

    Ignore day and month.

  • Realism (social realism and aesthetic realism)

    1855-1900

  • American Civil War

    1861-1865

  • Lincoln Assassinated

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is published.

    Ignore day and month..

  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, is published.

    Not American but I had to include it.

  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is published.

  • The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, is published

    Exact day and month, Ican not fine, but it came before the Meat Inspection Act

  • FMIA passed

    Mmm "cleaner" meat.

  • The Harlem Renaissance

    1920s-30s

  • The beginning of the moderinst movement (ish)

  • The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is published.

    Ignore day and month.

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Just ignore the day. Yay

  • The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinback, is published.

  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers, is published.

  • The U.S joins in on WW II

    After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, the U.S joins the war.

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide

  • The Beat movement came around

  • Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger is published.

    Ignore day and month.

  • Post modernism

    I'm slightly confused on the year for post modernism for I assumed that it was any year after the modernist movement.

  • Harry Potter saga begins with the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K Rowling

    Not American, but it had a significant impact on American culture and literature. Plus it was a part of my chilhood and my childhood's pretty historical. :p