American Literature Timeline

American Literature Timeline: Major Movements and Key Works

1. Colonial and Early National Period (1607-1800):

Key Works:

Anne Bradstreet's poetry

Jonathan Edwards's sermons

Benjamin Franklin's "Autobiography"

2. Romanticism (1800-1860):

Key Works:

Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"

Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"

3. Transcendentalism (1830-1860):

Key Works:

Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays, including "Self-Reliance"

Henry David Thoreau's "Walden"

Margaret Fuller's "Woman in the Nineteenth Century"

4. Realism (1865-1914):

Key Works:

Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

Henry James's "The Portrait of a Lady"

Edith Wharton's "The Age of Innocence"

5. Naturalism (1880-1940):

Key Works:

Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage"

Jack London's "Call of the Wild"

Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie"

6. Harlem Renaissance (1918-1937):

Key Works:

Langston Hughes's poetry, including "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

Claude McKay's "Home to Harlem"

7. Modernism (1914-1945):

Key Works:

F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"

Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms"

T.S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land"

8. Harlem Renaissance (1945-1960s):

Key Works:

Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"

Lorraine Hansberry's play "A Raisin in the Sun"

James Baldwin's "Go Tell It on the Mountain"

9. Contemporary Period (1960s-Present):

Key Works:

Toni Morrison's "Beloved"

Don DeLillo's "White Noise"

Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies"

This timeline provides a snapshot of the major movements and key works in American literature. It's important to note that literature is a dynamic and evolving field, and many other significant works and authors contribute to the rich tapestry of American literary history. 0 0 0. American Literature Timeline.

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