American Lit Timeline By Tyler Walker

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  • Puritan and Colonialis

    Puritan and Colonialis
    ANNE BRADSTREET (1612-1672)
    NATHANIEL WARD (c.1578-1652)

    SAMUEL SEWALL (1652-1730)

    COTTON MATHER (1663-1728)

    JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703-1758) Hamlet
    Macbeth
    Don Quixote
    Kind Lear
    Othello Colonization of America (begining of 13 colonies)
    Native American (pushed away from land)
    Escaping from religous presecution
    Mayflower Compact
    Tea is introduced to the colonies
    Importation of Slaves

  • Revolutionary Period

    Revolutionary Period
    Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
    Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735-1813)
    Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
    Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
    Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784) The Federalist Papers
    The Rise and Fall of The Roman Empire
    Common Sense
    Moll Flanders
    The Social Contract Revolutionary
    Unity among colonies
    Federalist vs. AntiFederalist
    Constitution
    Articles of Confederation The Revolutionary War

  • Romantics

    Romantics
    Pride and Prejudice
    Jane Erye
    Emma
    Dracula
    Wuthering Heights

  • Transcendentalism

    Transcendentalism
    Ralph Waldo Emerson.
    Henry David Thoreau.
    Margaret Fuller.
    [Dr.] William Ellery Channing.
    Theodore Parker.
    Amos Bronson Alcott. Walden
    Self Reliance
    Civil Disobedience
    Into the Wild
    Leaves of Grass Independence
    Love nature
    self reliance
    Over soul Era of Good Fealings
    Era of the Common Man
    Trail of Tears
    Immigration increase

  • Antebellum Period

    Pre-Civil War

  • Realism

    Realism
    1850-1900

  • Moby Dick

    Moby Dick
    October 18, 1851
    Adventure Fiction
    Herman Melville
    About a seaman with a whale as his arch-enemy

  • Uncle Toms Cabin

    Uncle Toms Cabin
    March 20, 1852
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Pre-civil war novel portraying views on slavery
    Banned in the south

  • Civil War Era

    1861-1865

  • Great Expectations

    Great Expectations
    Charles Dickens
    Novel
    Development of Orphan named Pip
    Published 1861

  • Reconstruction

    1865-1877

  • Little Women

    Little Women
    Womens Movement
    1868
    Louisa May Alcott
    Genre; Coming of Age

  • The Adventures of tom sawyer

    The Adventures of tom sawyer
    Published; 1876
    Mark Twaine
    Age of Reconstruction
    Based upon where Mark grew up

  • Gilded Age

    1877-1900

  • Adventures of Huckleberry FInn

    Adventures of Huckleberry FInn
    Most Famous Works
    Mark Twaine
    Genre; Satire
    December 1884
    First published in the UK

  • Modern

    Modern
    Great Gatspy
    1984
    The Grapes of wrath
    To Kill a Mockingbird Great Depression
    Harlem Renessance
    Great Migration
    Assembly lines
    WW1