English Honors Timeline by Sara Scott (Student)

Characteristics

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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).

Rejects and creativity and imaginative idealization. (Brittanica)
Made popular by the French who rejected Classicism and Romanticism.(Brittanica)

Special Dates in the Period

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Civil War

1861-1865

Reconstruction Era

1865-1877

Famous Authors and their Works

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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

William Faulkner

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William never graduated highschool and he ended up winning Nobel Prize, two Pulitzer Prizes, and two National Book Awards. (UC San Diego Extended Studies)

His breakthrough novel was The Sound of Fury (NobelPrize.org)

His writing examined social, psychological, and racial issues. (EncyclopediaVerginia.org)

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker became the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer prize. (Britannica)

She is known for her insightful prtrayel of African American life and culture. (National Museum of African History & Culture)

Her most famous novel was "The Color Purple" which brings together an autobiography of a slave and sentimental fiction. (New George Encyclopedia)

Characteristics

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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).

It encompassed fast social changes and advances in science and social sciences. (Brittanica)
Seen as a rebellious time as people rejected European culture.(Miami Dade College)

1920-1940

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

Special Dates in the Period

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World War I
1914-1918

"The New Negro Movement"
1919-1925

Prohibition
1920-1933

The Great Depression
1929-1939

World War II
1939-1945

Famous Authors and Their Works

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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

James Weldon Johnson

Claude McKay

Countee Cullen

Langston Hughes (poetry)

Zora Neale Hurston

The American Dream in the 1920's

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People had an issue with vanity, the made every decision from the heart, whoever I want to love I will love, no matter if adultery. (IPL.org)

Originally the want of a land in which would be fuller and better for everyone. (New York Times)

The American Dream in Literature

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The Great Gatsby

The American Dream in the 1930's and 40's

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In the 1930's and the 40's the American dream was not referred to as a lot of money or great business. It was seen in advertisements for books, plays, church sermons etc...(New York Times)

In the 1930's it meant equality, freedom and mutual respect. (New York Times)

The American Dream of Freedom in the 1940's

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The American Dream in the 1950's

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The decade beamed with prosperity and for many, the dream was living in modern suburban homes. (Smokey Hill Museum)

People in America believed anyone could achieve much more there than any other country. (American Dream Project)

A Vision of the American Dream in the 1950's

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1920-1940

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Harlem Renaissance

"The Jazz Age"

"The Roaring 20s"

The Roaring 20's

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It was time of great social economic change, people were willing to spend all the money they had saved during the war. People's wealth doubled. (History.com)

This time period brought on modern day consumerism, many things became popular such as household equipment such as the refrigerator. It was also a time of fashion and music. (Britannica)

The American Dream in the 1960's and 70's

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The 1960's dream was freedom of equality where many people fought to end racial injustice like Martin Luther King Jr.. (ipl.org)

The 1970's were filled with upheaval with Watergate and Vietnam, but equality was also popular among sexuality and gender rights. (Nixonlibrary.org)

70's Fashion

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