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Enlightenment
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The Age of Faith
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Jonathan Edwards
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The Age of Reason
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American Revolution
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The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology
Thomas Paine published The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology
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Romanticism
Reaction against classism. Writings charcterized by imagination over realism.http://staff.edmonds.wednet.edu/users/hansonk/LITERARY%20PERIODS%20AND%20THEIR%20CHARACTERISTICS.htm -
Andrew Jackson President
Andrew Jackson becomes president http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_history -
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The Transcendentalists
Fragment of romantisism, belived answers to be found in nature.
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The Raven
The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe is written Elements of literature -
Edgard Allen Poe dies
Edgard Allen Poe dies
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Moby Dick by Herman Melvile
Mody Dick by Heman Melvile is publish and panned by critics Elements of literature -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Toms Cabin to give insight into slavery. Propaganda. Elements of literature -
Walden Pond
Thoreau publishes Walden Pond
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Walt Whitman begins publishing "Son of Myself"
Walt Whitman publishes first 12 poems of "Son of Myself." Marking him as the most narcissistic person ever. Elements of literature -
Civil War Starts
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Realism
The Realism liturary movements occurs as a reaction to Romantisism. Stresses plausable events in its works.
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Naturalism
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Huck Finn Published by Mark Twain
Huck Finn Published by Mark Twain. Considered greatest american novel ever
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Jack London publishes Call of the wild
Jack London publishes Call of the wild. About a dog returning to primal state.
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Modernism
responded to shift in world views and globilization. WW2 was happening around this time.
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Prohibition begins
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The Harlem Renaissance
African American revolutions in arts and literature. Parellel to modernism.
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T.S. Eliot The wasteland published
T.S. Eliot The wasteland published. Views on postwar europe in poetry form.
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F. Scott Fitgerald publishes The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitgerald publishes The Great Gatsby. Writes about high life in the 1920's.
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Langston Hughes Publishes The Ways of White People
Langston Hughes Publishes The Ways of White People. A study of the actions of white people.
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Contemporary Literature
Contemporary Literature beings marking change into current style of writing
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J.D. Salinger Publishes Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger Publishes Catcher in the Rye. Contains his unique view on growing up.
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9/11
9/11 attacks occured on world trade ceners and pentagon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_history
