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Realism: 1850-1900

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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).

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Civil War
1861-1865

Reconstruction Era
1865-1877

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Mark Twain
-Huckleberry Finn

Jack London
-Call of the Wild
-"To Build a Fire"

Stephen Crane
-"The Open Boat"

Ambrose Bierce
-"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

Kate Chopin
-"Story of an Hour"
-The Awakening

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France originally started the Realism movement

Realism rejected romantic themes or exotic items

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1: Mark Twain was not expected to survive at birth

2: Mark Twain is not his real name

3: At one point Mark Twain had 19 cats

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1. Alice went Blind at 8 years old

2. She was the first African American to win the Pulitzer award.

3. Her book The Color Purple represents her book about royalty. spirituality and power. This is because purple tends to be a power color especially in historic times.

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Modernism
1900-1950

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World War I
1914-1918

The Great Depression
1929-1939

World War II
1939-1945

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1. Sense of disillusionment and loss of faith in the "American Dream": the independent, 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)

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Lorraine Hansberry
-A Raisin in the Sun

F. Scott Fitzgerald
-The Great Gatsby

William Faulkner
-"A Rose for Emily"

Eudora Welty
-"A Worn Path"

Robert Frost
-poetry

T. S. Eliot
-The Waste Land
-"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

John Steinbeck
-Of Mice and Men
-The Grapes of Wrath

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1: World war 1 was sparked by 1 assassination

2: The great depression was the biggest economic fall of the US

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1: Material Possessions

2: Home Ownership

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1. Working up through hard work during the depression

2. Winning through the struggle of perseverance

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1. Owning a Vehicle

2. Having a stable job was also a flex of the time

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1: Birth percentages were through the roof

2: Lots of Technology and devices were first created

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"The Jazz Age"
"The Roaring 20s"

1920–1940

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The New Negro Movement"
1919-1925

Prohibition
1920-1933

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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

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James Weldon Johnson

Claude McKay

Countee Cullen

Langston Hughes (poetry)

Zora Neale Hurston

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1: It renewed the sense of racial pride

2: It also helped the culture express itself and make people more confident

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1: Rock and roll started to pick up and become popular

2: Civil Rights movement became highly involved with everyone

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1: This was a time when technology really took a turn.

2: The first ATM was Introduced during this time

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1: Consumerism was through the roof in the 80s

2: Neon signs and colors became very popular in places like Vegas

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1: The Hubble Space Telescope was launched

2: The 1999 Pontiac Trans Am was released being my beloved car

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1: This is when the internet really skyrocketed in popularity

2: Some of the most phone sales were also captured during this time as they became easily available

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Contemporary "Postmodernism"
1950–present

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Korean War
1950-1953

Vietnam War
1954-1975

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1. Influenced by studies of media, language, and information technology.

2. Sense that little is unique; culture endlessly duplicates itself.

3. New literary forms and techniques: works composed of only dialogue, or combining fiction and nonfiction, experimenting with physical appearance of their work.

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Alice Walker

Wallace Stevens

e.e. cummings

Maya Angelou

Anne Sexton

James Baldwin

Richard Wright

Sandra Cisneros

Amy Tan

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1: Post Modernism rejects the authority of any single style or definition of Art

2: Post modernism also rejects objectivity and rationalism

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This book covers a middle class family with personal and political struggles. The book shows a lot with the perks of freedom as well as some of the cons of freedom. This book dives into a lot of love, betrayal, and consequences.

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This Timeline has greatly helped me in my journey in learning the history of writing. This also helping me in learning history itself and watching the world evolve around technology and others. Watching famous authors change the world to make it what it is now and how people played a part in everything that happens. The world was written by those who have made some of the biggest decisions, especially now when people are trying to change and make the world a different place.