American LT

By Cforge32
  • Jan 1, 1490

    Puritanism

    Puritanism was part of the buliding blocks in American Literature. It included brillant authors like Johnathan Edwards, Anne Bradstreet, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, And Thomas Payne. These great authors wrote about their ventures to the new world. Politcal documents were also recorded and founded our nation's principles. Religous writers wanted to instill the fear of God into people. These documents were Sinners in the hands of God, Speech in thee Convention, The declaration Of Independence.

  • Rationalism

    Rationalism included three visions. The transcndental, romantic, and social visions were all changed forever by authors like Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, And Many others. They wrote novels like Moby Dick, The Scarlet Letter, The Devil And Tom Walker, etc. These novels promoted self- exploration, Religon and most of all Human Rights. these brought issuses such as woman rights, taxes, and immigration to the forefront

  • Romanticism

    The second half of the centruy saw the rise of a more objective attitude toward and human affiars. Famous authors included Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, And Jack London. The wrote Famous novels like the Adv. Of Huckleberry Fin, The Red Badge Of Courage, The awakening, and Call of The Wild.The American romantic impulse had faded. Loss of idealism, Democracy, and Science were revealed through American literature.
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    Modernism

  • Period: to

    Harlem Renaissance

  • World War I begins

  • Olympic track and feild Champion Jim Thrope begins football career

  • "Chicago Poems" by Carl Sandburg

  • Worldwide influenza epidemic kills as many as 20 million

  • T.S. Eliot publishes "The Waste Land"

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes "The Great Gatsby"

  • Stock Market crashes in October, followed by the Great Depression

  • President Roosevelt closes banks

  • The Wizard of Oz appears in theaters

  • Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor

  • Period: to

    Post-Modernism

  • Atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • The Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union Begins

  • Ralph Ellison publishes "Invisible Man"

  • United Nations Charter signed at end of World War II