Decades of American Literary Movements

Enlightenment

Period: May 27, 1607 to May 27, 1800

During this period of time the US was walking through the steps of the industrial revolution

The Age of Faith

Period: May 27, 1607 to May 27, 1750

A time span in which work ethic was the primary focus along with simplistic living.

Massachusetts Bay Colony Founded

Jun 12, 1630

Major event

The Age of Reason

Period: May 27, 1750 to May 27, 1800

An era in which rationalism prevails especially in the period of Enligtenment in England, France, and USA

French and Indian War

May 28, 1754

Major event

Thomas Paine

May 27, 1791

Rights of Men

Romanticism

Period: May 27, 1800 to May 27, 1855

The theory and practice of the romantic literature of the late eighteenth century opposing classicism.

United States military academy opens in West Point, NY

Mar 16, 1802

Major event

The Transcendentalist

Period: May 27, 1840 to May 27, 1855

Sub genre of Romanticism in which individualism, nature, and self reliance were stressed.

The Webster-Ashburton treaty is signed

Aug 9, 1842

Major event

Edgar Allen Poe

Oct 9, 1849

Annabel Lee

Herman Melville

Nov 14, 1851

Moby Dick

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Mar 20, 1852

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Walt Whitman

Jul 4, 1855

Leaves of Grass

Ralph Waldo Emerson

May 27, 1857

Brahma

Minnesota becomes a state

May 11, 1858

Major event

Realism

Period: May 27, 1865 to May 27, 1915

Expresses cultural, geographical, and behavioral pecularities prevelant to a country.

Ku Klux Klan is created

Dec 24, 1865

Major event

Naturalism

Period: May 27, 1870 to May 27, 1915

Influenced by new field of sociology and psychology and by Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest. Extentsion of Realism

Mark Twain

Feb 27, 1885

Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

Modernism

Period: May 27, 1914 to May 27, 1939

During the period in time many americans were being relieve of duty and stresses followin post world war II.

World War I begins

Jul 28, 1914

Major event

The Harlem Renaissance

Period: May 27, 1920 to May 27, 1940

An uplifting for spirits of the African Americans and celebration for American folklore.

Emergency Quota Act is passed

May 19, 1921

Major event

E.E Cummings

May 27, 1922

The Enormous Rain

Ernest Hemmingway

May 28, 1929

A Farewell to Arms

Edward Taylor

May 27, 1939

Meditation Eight

Contemporary Literature

Period: May 27, 1939 to May 27, 2012

A form of literature with romantic background and sub-topics usually post WWII.

Langston Hughes

Apr 27, 1943

Freedom's Plow

G.I Bill is passed

Jun 22, 1944

Major event

J.D Salinger

Jul 16, 1951

The Catcher in the Rye