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American Literary Timeline

  • Colonial Period

    Colonial Period
    EDWARD TAYLOR: "I am the living bread" - poem.
    "The reflexion" -poem.
    WILLIAM BRADFORD: "A plymouth plantation" -novel
    "On the various heresies in old and new England" -peom
  • Age of Reason

    Age of Reason
    BENJAMIN FLANKIN: "Join or die" -cartoon
    "The speech of Polly Baker" -story
    THOMAS JEFFERSON: "Virginia statute for religious freedom".
    "A summary view of the rights of british america"
  • Romanticism

    Romanticism
    EDGAR ALLAN POE: "The Raven" (1845) numbers among the best-known poems in national literature. "The Black cat" -short story about horror.
    WASHINGTON IRVING: "The legend of sleepy hollow" - his most famous story. "The devil and Tom Walker" -short story
  • Transcendentalism

    Transcendentalism
    MARGARET FULLER: "Woman in the nineteenth century- book first major feminist work. "The passion flower" -poem.
    WIALT WHITMAN: "Leaves of grass" - book.
    "Memoranda during the war2 -poem
  • Anti- trascendentalism

    Anti- trascendentalism
    HERMAN MELVILLE: "The confidence man" -novel.
    "Timoleons" -poems
    NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE: "The ambitious guest" -short story.
    "Chiefly about war matters" -essay
  • Realism

    Realism
    HENRY JAMES: "The portrait o a lady" - novel.
    "The wings of the dove" -second written of the books
    MARK TWAIN: "Advice to youth" -essay
    "Cannibalism in the car" -book
  • Naturalism

    Naturalism
    JACK LONDON: "The sea-wolf" -book
    "A daughter of the snow" -book.
    FRANK NORRIS. "A Lost Story." In: The Spinners' Book of Fiction. -short story.
    "Not guilty" -article.
  • Regionalism

    Regionalism
    FRANK NORRIS: "The ship that saw a ghost" -short story
    "A man's woman" -fiction story.
    KATY CHOPIN: "At fault" -novel
    "The awakening" -novel.
  • Modernism

    Modernism
    ROBERT FROST: "A boy's will" -poetry book
    "A girl's farden" -poem
    F. SCOTT FITZGERALD: "The great Gatsby" - story
    "This side of paradise" -novel
  • Contemporary

    Contemporary
    STEPHEN KING: "A death" - short story.
    "A new introduction to John Fowles's the collector -essay
    JOYCE CAROL: "The edge of impossiblity" -essay.
    "Anonymous sins & other poems" -poem.