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American Literature Timeline

Period Dates Period Name Period Characteristics Famous Authors and Works

Arrived 40,000 -

20,000 B.C

Native Americans 1. Oral literature: epic narratives, creation myths, stories, poems, songs.

2. Use stories to teach moral lessons and

convey practical information about the natural world.

3. Deep respect for nature and animals

4. Cyclical world view

5. Figurative language/parallelism

1600-1800

colonies established

Salem Witch Trials

Puritanism 1. Wrote mostly diaries and histories, which expressed the connections between God an their everyday lives. by reforming to the simpler forms of worship and church organization described in the New

Testament

3. Saw religion as a personal, inner

experience. would be saved.

5. Used a plain style of writing

William Bradford

Anne Bradstreet (poetry),

Jonathan Edwards

an Angr), Edward

1750-1800

Revolutionary War

The Constitution,

The Bill of Rights,

and The

Declaration of

Independence

were created.

Rationalism

1. Mostly comprised of philosophers,

scientists, writing speeches and pamphlets. rules) by using deductive reasoning, rather than relying on the authority of the past, on religious faith, or intuition.

Benjamin Franklin

(Autobiography), Patrick

Henry (Speech to the

Virginia Convention),

Phyllis Wheatley

(poetry)

1800-1860

Industrialization

War of 1812

California Gold

Rush Romanticism 1. Valued feeling, intuition, idealism, and inductive reasoning.

2. Placed faith in inner experience and the

power of the imagination.

3. Shunned the artificiality of civilization and

seek unspoiled nature as a path to spirituality.

4. Championed individual freedom and the

worth of the individual.

5. Saw poetry as the highest expression of

the imagination.

6. Dark Romantics: Used dark and

supernatural themes/settings (Gothic style)

Dickinson (poetry), Walt

Whitman (Leaves of

Grass), Edgar Allan Poe

Hawthorne (The Scarlet

Letter)

1840-1860

Abolitionist,

Utopian, and

Movements

Transcendentalism

1. Everything in the world, Including human

beings, is a reflection of the Divine Soul

2. People can use their intuition to behold

souls.

3. Self-reliance and individualism must

outweigh external authority and blind conformity to tradition

Ralph Waldo Emerson

(Nature, -

Henry David Thoreau

(Walden, Life in the

Woods).

Louisa May Alcott (Little

Women)

1850-1900

Civil War

Reconstruction

Realism 1. Feelings of disillusionment

2. Common subjects; slums of rapidly

growing cities, factories replacing farmlands, poor factory workers, corrupt politicians

3. Represented the manner and environment

of everyday life and ordinary people as realistically as possible (regionalism)

4. Sought to explain behavior

(psychologically/socially).

Mark Twain (Huckleberry

Finn), Jack London (Call

of the Wild

Fire, Stephen Crane

Occurrence at Owl Creek

Kate Chopin

The

Awakening)

1900-1950

World War I

The Great

Depression

World War II

Modernism

1. Sense of disillusionment and loss of faith in

self-reliant, individual will triumph.

2. Emphasis on bold experimentation in style

and form over the traditional.

3. Interest in the inner workings of the human

mind (ex. Stream of consciousness).

Lorraine Hansberry (A

Raisin in the Sun), F.

Scott Fitzgerald (The

Great Gatsby), William

Robert Frost

(poetry), T.S. Eliot (The

Waste Land

John Steinbeck (Of Mice

and Men, Grapes of

Wrath)

1920-1940

Prohibition

Harlem

Renaissance

1. Black cultural movement in Harlem, New

York

2. Some poetry rhythms based on spirituals,

and jazz, lyrics on the blues, and diction from the street talk of the ghettos

3. Other poetry used conventional lyrical

forms

James Weldon Johnson,

Claude McKay, Countee

Cullen, Langston Hughes

(poetry), Zora Neale

Hurston

1950-present

Korean War

Vietnam War

Contemporary

1. Influenced by studies of media, language,

and information technology

2. Sense that little is unique; culture endlessly

duplicates and copies itself

3. New literary forms and techniques: works

composed of only dialogue or combining fiction and nonfiction, experimenting with physical appearance of their work

Alice Walker, Wallace

Stevens, E. E.

Cummings, Maya

Angelou, Anne Sexton,

James Baldwin, Richard

Wright, Sandra Cisneros,

Amy Tan

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Arrived 40,000 -

20,000 B.C

2. Use stories to teach moral lessons and

3. Deep respect for nature and animals

4. Cyclical world view

5. Figurative language/parallelism

1600-1800

Salem Witch Trials

Testament

3. Saw religion as a personal, inner

5. Used a plain style of writing

William Bradford

Anne Bradstreet (poetry),

Jonathan Edwards

1750-1800

Revolutionary War

The Constitution,

The Bill of Rights,

Declaration of

Independence

Rationalism

1. Mostly comprised of philosophers,

Benjamin Franklin

Henry (Speech to the

Virginia Convention),

Phyllis Wheatley

1800-1860

Industrialization

War of 1812

California Gold

2. Placed faith in inner experience and the

3. Shunned the artificiality of civilization and

4. Championed individual freedom and the

5. Saw poetry as the highest expression of

6. Dark Romantics: Used dark and

Dickinson (poetry), Walt

Whitman (Leaves of

Grass), Edgar Allan Poe

Hawthorne (The Scarlet

Letter)

1840-1860

Abolitionist,

Utopian, and

Movements

Transcendentalism

1. Everything in the world, Including human

2. People can use their intuition to behold

3. Self-reliance and individualism must

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry David Thoreau

Woods).

Louisa May Alcott (Little

Women)

1850-1900

Civil War

Reconstruction

Realism 1. Feelings of disillusionment

2. Common subjects; slums of rapidly

3. Represented the manner and environment

4. Sought to explain behavior

Mark Twain (Huckleberry

Finn), Jack London (Call

Fire, Stephen Crane

Occurrence at Owl Creek

Kate Chopin

Awakening)

1900-1950

World War I

The Great

Depression

World War II

Modernism

1. Sense of disillusionment and loss of faith in

2. Emphasis on bold experimentation in style

3. Interest in the inner workings of the human

Lorraine Hansberry (A

Raisin in the Sun), F.

Scott Fitzgerald (The