Literature Timeline by Isabella (Bella) Milanes (Student) https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet en-us 2022-03-22 13:47:40 UTC 2022-07-08 00:34:04 UTC hello@padlet.com imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2107561761 2022-03-22 13:50:03 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2107561761 Realism [1850-1900] PERIOD CHARACTERISTICS imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2107571769 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).]]> 2022-03-22 13:54:12 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2107571769 Realism: Authors and Works imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2107574208 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]]> 2022-03-22 13:55:05 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2107574208 Realism -Fact #1 Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2107574950 Huck Finn Was A Real Person

In the town where he grew up, Clemens knew a boy named Tom Blankenship, who was "ignorant, unwashed, [and] insufficiently fed, but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had." He felt for the child, who was poor and neglected by his alcoholic father, and that sentiment stayed with him even in adulthood, after the two lost touch. It's not known for sure what happened to Blankenship, with rumors ranging from trouble with the law to success in it as a justice of the peace, but he most certainly lives on in one of the most successful books in American literature.

Taylor, Grace. “5 Fun Facts about Mark Twain.” History Daily, 13 Dec. 2021, historydaily.org/mark-twain-facts-stories-trivia. Accessed on March 22, 2022.

]]> 2022-03-22 13:55:24 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2107574950 Realism - Fact #2 Kate Chopin - "The awakening" imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2107575998 Chopin’s novels were mostly forgotten after her death in 1904, but several of her short stories appeared in an anthology within five years after her death, others were reprinted over the years, and slowly people again came to read her. In the 1930s a Chopin biography appeared which spoke well of her short fiction but dismissed The Awakening as unfortunate. However, by the 1950s scholars and others recognized that the novel is an insightful and moving work of fiction. Such readers set in motion a Kate Chopin revival, one of the more remarkable literary revivals in the United States.

“Biography, Kate Chopin, The Awakening, the Storm, Stories.” KateChopin.org, 12 Oct. 2021, https://www.katechopin.org/biography/.  Accessed on March 22, 2022.]]> 2022-03-22 13:55:54 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2107575998 Civil War 1861-1865 imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2107989016 2022-03-22 16:55:48 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2107989016 Reconstruction Era (1865-1877) imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2107990656 2022-03-22 16:56:36 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2107990656 William Faulkner - Interesting Fact 1 imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2111986316 Faulkner never graduated from high school or earned a college degree, yet he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, two Pulitzer prizes and the National Book Award, twice.

UC San Diego Extension. “Five Facts about William Faulkner.” Five Facts About William Faulkner | UC San Diego Extension, UC San Diego Extension, 20 Aug. 2012, https://extension.ucsd.edu/news-and-events/extension-blog/august-2012/five-facts-about-faulkner. Accessed on March 24, 2022.]]> 2022-03-24 14:29:24 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2111986316 William Faulkner - Interesting Fact 2 imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2111989104 William Faulkner’s masterpieces are no exception: they are filled with the sights, smells and sounds of the South, and the distinctive frame of mind of its people. Faulkner’s richly imagined Yoknapatawpha County, a fictionalized version of his own Mississippi homeland, is inhabited by a cast of vivid and unforgettable characters that Faulkner drew from his own family’s centuries-long history in the American South.

UC San Diego Extension. “Five Facts about William Faulkner.” Five Facts About William Faulkner | UC San Diego Extension, UC San Diego Extension, 20 Aug. 2012, https://extension.ucsd.edu/news-and-events/extension-blog/august-2012/five-facts-about-faulkner. Accessed on March 24, 2022.]]> 2022-03-24 14:30:38 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2111989104 William Faulkner - Interesting Fact 3 imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2111994791 He wrote two volumes of poetry: The Marble Faun (1924), which is named after a Nathanial Hawthorne novel, and "A Green Bough" (1933), as well as a short story collection of crime-fiction called "Knight's Gambit" (1949).

UC San Diego Extension. “Five Facts about William Faulkner.” Five Facts About William Faulkner | UC San Diego Extension, UC San Diego Extension, 20 Aug. 2012, https://extension.ucsd.edu/news-and-events/extension-blog/august-2012/five-facts-about-faulkner. Accessed on March 24, 2022.]]> 2022-03-24 14:33:14 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2111994791 Sandra Cisneros Interesting Fact 1 imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2142432647 The House on Mango Street, first published in 1984, won the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award in 1985 and is required reading in middle schools, high schools, and universities across the country. It has sold over six million copies since its initial publication and is still selling strongly. ]]> 2022-04-13 13:54:36 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2142432647 Sandra Cisneros Interesting fact #2 imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2142436739 She has two foundations for helping emerging writers. In her own words: "I founded both the Macondo Foundation, an association of socially engaged writers, and the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation, a grant-giving institution that served Texas writers for fifteen years."



]]> 2022-04-13 13:57:27 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2142436739 Sandra Cisnero Interesting fact #3 imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2142438818 Cisneros was raised Catholic, but as an adult, she discovered that Buddhism was the best way to embrace her spirituality with her background as a Mexican-American woman: ‘the amazing parts about Buddhism is that it is taking me back to my culture and my family spirituality. Buddhism for me is a way of helping to guide my life work. It focuses on serving humanity’]]> 2022-04-13 13:58:54 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2142438818 Modernism 1900-1950 PERIOD CHARACTERISTICS imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2170333905 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). ]]> 2022-05-04 17:39:45 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2170333905 Modernism Famous Authors and Works imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2170335475 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]]> 2022-05-04 17:40:45 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2170335475 World War I (1914-1918) imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2170336868 2022-05-04 17:41:33 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2170336868 The Great Depression (1929-1939) imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2170338004 2022-05-04 17:42:21 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2170338004 World War II (1939-1945) imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2170341657 2022-05-04 17:44:46 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2170341657 Modernism Fact # 1 Lorraine Hansberry -A Raisin in the Sun imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2170348416 The title for A Raisin in the Sun comes from the poem “Harlem” written by Langston Hughes:

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
 
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
 
Or does it explode?




]]> 2022-05-04 17:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2170348416 Modernism Fact #2 - F. Scott Fitzgerald kept an extraordinarily detailed record of his life. imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2171652597 Between 1919 and 1937, Fitzgerald obsessively recorded the progress of his life and career in a large, leather-bound business ledger. Much of the ledger is dedicated to recording his published works as a writer and his income, but one section, titled “Outline Chart of My Life,” provides a month-by-month account of his activities since birth. Fitzgerald documented everything from his first word (“up”), to his height at age 13 (5’3’), to the date he fell in love with Zelda (September 7, 1918). Many years also include a brief summary sentence. Age 14 is described as “A Year of Much Activity but Dangerous,” while the headline for 1920—the year he first found fame—reads “Revelry and Marriage. The rewards of the year before.”

https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-f-scott-fitzgerald]]> 2022-05-05 15:43:19 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2171652597 Roaring 20s Fact #1 imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2177909932 People boycotted the prohibition → The most unpopular and disregarded the law of the era, it was so disliked that an estimated 80% of U.S. Senators, Congressmen, and high government officials – including the three U.S. presidents of the era – imbibed10 the banned alcohol.]]> 2022-05-10 16:20:54 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2177909932 Roaring 20s Fact #2 The red scare imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2177911736 Red Scare was at a high during → the idea that labor unrest was being fostered by communist radicals, immigrants were the main target because Americans thought them to be communists as well. Immigrants took jobs belonging to Americans and they thought them to be political radicals with more than 800.000 new immigrants, which cause the government to enforce immigration laws.


]]> 2022-05-10 16:22:05 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2177911736 The American Dream during the 30s and 40s: The Epic of America by James Truslow Adams. imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2187760522 Adams is interested in the whole of American history, how it began, and what it represented in the first half of the twentieth century. He traces the historical origins of the American concept of "bigger and better," attitudes toward business, the American Dream, and other characteristics generally considered "typically American." Ever since America became an independent nation, each generation has seen an uprising of its citizens to save the American Dream from forces seeking to overwhelm and dispel it.

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9913984573503681#:~:text=The%20Epic%20of%20America%20paints,outlook%2C%20character%2C%20and%20opinion.]]> 2022-05-17 14:46:10 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2187760522 The American Dream during the 30s and 40s: Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s(FDR’s) imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2187780623 The president's New Deal programs promised safe, healthy futures for every American—a new understanding of the American Dream.  The American Dream transformed into an ideal that relied on people being able to afford all the modern accessories: cars, television sets, and college educations for one’s children. Television greatly helped define the American Dream as the acquisition of material goods. Americans dreamed of living ideal lives like those portrayed in shows such as Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best. Many Americans fueled their purchase of the new American Dream with credit cards, a choice that eventually affected the state of the American Dream. 

 https://wjccschools.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/How-the-American-Dream-Has-Changed-Over-Time.pdf]]> 2022-05-17 14:56:49 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2187780623 The American Dream during the 50s imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2206181039 World War II ended, Americans turned their attention to their families and jobs. The economy prospered. By the end of the decade Americans were enjoying the highest standard of living in the world.]]> 2022-05-31 14:40:37 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2206181039 The American Dream during the 50s imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2206186549
Most people in this era wanted to be a lawyer, a doctor, or work for the government. Usually women didn't work if they could afford it, instead they were housewives. 

]]> 2022-05-31 14:44:29 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2206186549 Harlem Renaissance (1920–1940) PERIOD CHARACTERISTICS imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2213801921 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]]> 2022-06-07 15:53:22 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2213801921 Famous Authors and Works imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2221944140 James Weldon Johnson
-The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
 
Claude McKay
-If We Must Die

Countee Cullen
-Color

Langston Hughes (poetry)

Zora Neale Hurston
-Their Eyes Were Watching God]]> 2022-06-15 12:57:37 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2221944140 "The Roaring 20s" imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2221946333 2022-06-15 13:00:07 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2221946333 Fact #1 James Weldon Johnson imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2221952333 In 1896, Johnson began to study law in Thomas Ledwith’s law office in Jacksonville, Florida. In 1898, Ledwith considered Johnson ready to take the Florida bar exam. After a grueling two-hour exam, Johnson was given a pass and admitted to the bar. One examiner expressed his anguish by bolting from the room and stating, “Well, I can’t forget he’s a nigger; and I’ll be damned if I’ll stay here to see him admitted.” In 1898, Johnson became one of only a handful of black attorneys in the state.

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/johnson-james-weldon-1871-1938/#:~:text=Johnson%20was%20a%20member%20of,protest%20racial%20violence%20and%20lynching.]]> 2022-06-15 13:06:29 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2221952333 imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2222017139 2022-06-15 14:04:12 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2222017139 Prohibition1920-1933 imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2222023226 2022-06-15 14:09:49 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2222023226 Fact #2 imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2222054529
He was also one of the first artists to write jazz poetry. “His first volume of poetry is called ‘The Weary Blues’ in 1926. Here he is integrating jazz and blues rhythms, subjects, themes into poetry.




https://blog-college.ku.edu/9-things-you-should-know-about-langston-hughes
]]> 2022-06-15 14:40:45 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2222054529 The American Dream during the 60's imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2222058487 African Americans once struggled to achieve the Dream thanks to bias and discrimination. However, it has opened up to them thanks to the civil rights movement of the 60s, which culminated with the March on Washington. During the protests Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have A Dream" speech where he spoke of an America where everyone is equal; a place where everyone can achieve the American Dream. ]]> 2022-06-15 14:44:06 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2222058487 The American Dream during the 70's imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2222061192 Americans were largely unaware of the damage humans were dealing to the environment, until Rachel Carson published Silent Spring in 1962. The non-fiction bestseller revealed the damage that pesticides such as DDT were having on the environment. Shocked and outraged by Carson's revelations, the public demanded immediate change. People did not want to live in a future where it was unsafe to live. Thus, a new aspect of the American Dream was born. From this new aspect came the Environmental Protection Agency (1970)

https://sites.google.com/site/ushistory1960stoday/home/american-dream]]> 2022-06-15 14:46:20 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2222061192 Fact #1: The American Dream during the 80’s imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2223233783 When 1980s rolled around, the “American Dream” was seen extensively in advertisements for home builders to directly tie the idea of buying or building a house to the vision of the country and what it meant to be a true citizen.

https://www.rd.com/list/how-the-american-dream-has-changed/]]> 2022-06-16 16:39:54 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2223233783 Fact #2 The American Dream during the 80’s imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2223239148 In the 1980 the internet was created, and the creation of the internet is one of the biggest reasons why the American dream might be seen differently today.

https://www.bartleby.com/essay/The-American-Dream-In-The-1980s-PJ9ZFM8K8DT]]> 2022-06-16 16:46:40 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2223239148 Fact #1 The American Dream during the 90's and early 2000's imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2223240658 In 1999 about one-third believed the American Dream meant some form of financial success: the acquisition of goods, a bigger house, a home with a piece of land around it and so on.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-12839437]]> 2022-06-16 16:48:43 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2223240658 Fact #2 The American Dream during the 90's and early 2000's imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2223240906 Once the 1990s hit, technology began to influence the American dream heavily. People started craving their own personal computers, cell phones, televisions (for each room), and video games. By the 2000s, this started to take a turn, especially during the first half of the decade.

https://www.rd.com/list/how-the-american-dream-has-changed/]]> 2022-06-16 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2223240906 Contemporary "Postmodernism" (1950–present) PERIOD CHARACTERISTICS imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2223254081 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]]> 2022-06-16 17:04:56 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2223254081 Korean War 1950-1953 imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2223255050 2022-06-16 17:06:23 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2223255050 Vietnam War 1954-1975 imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2223255548 2022-06-16 17:07:12 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2223255548 Famous Authors and Works imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2223256161 Alice Walker

Wallace Stevens

e.e. cummings

Maya Angelou

Anne Sexton

James Baldwin

Richard Wright

Sandra Cisneros

Amy Tan]]> 2022-06-16 17:08:10 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2223256161 Fact #1 Alice Walker imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2223258939 When Alice Walker was eight years old, she was accidentally shot in the eye with her brother’s BB gun. Scar tissue proceeded to grow over her eye and Walker retreated to more solitary activities, such as writing. When she was 14 the scar tissue was removed, but Walker never regained function of her eye. ]]> 2022-06-16 17:12:16 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2223258939 Fact#2 Anne Sexton imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2223261903 In 1965, Anne Sexton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London. She then went on to win the 1967 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her third collection, Live or Die(Houghton Mifflin, 1966). In total, Sexton published nine volumes of poetry during her lifetime, including Love Poems (Houghton Mifflin, 1969), The Book of Folly (Houghton Mifflin, 1973) and The Awful Rowing Toward God (Houghton Mifflin, 9175).
https://poets.org/poet/anne-sexton]]> 2022-06-16 17:16:19 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2223261903 The Help by Kathryn Stockett imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2239051103 I read The Help a while ago which tells the story of the maids of a white suburb in Jackson Mississipi. They give their personal accounts of the terrible treatment they received during the 1960s white southern segregation that they were part of as workers, told from their personal perspective. It is a heartbreaking story, but I really like reading about anything related to Human Rights, Racism, and Women issues.

]]> 2022-07-07 15:31:57 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2239051103 Reflection imilanes1 https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2239285222 First of all, I have to say that I think that Padlet made things easier for me to organize and have a visual summary of every time period of American Literature. The timeline is an easy and simplified way to take a look at the authors that we have study in depth during the course like Ralph Waldo Emerson or F. Scott Fitzgerald, but it also alows me to delve into other characters that are relevant, but the class didn't get much information about. I also think that the historical context plays an important role in the literature of the time, so being able to understand the social and economic issues of the time creates a better picure to comprehend the authors' wold view. ]]> 2022-07-08 00:34:04 UTC https://padlet.com/imilanes1/litpadlet/wish/2239285222