Literary Time Period
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Ten Literary Time Period Storyboard By: Finn Warlick
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- Characteristics: heavily influenced by British writers Reverence of the Bible Reflected religious views
- William Bradford "Of Plymouth Plantation"
- Colonialism (1607-1765)
- Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
- John Smith "Journals on Love for Pocahontas"
- Benjamin Franklin "Poor Richard's Almanac"
- Characteristics: historical reference cultural ideas politically related
- Age of Reason (1765-1830)
- Patrick Henry "Give me Liberty or Give me Death"
- Thomas Paine "Common Sense"
- Gothic Period (1721-1838 & beyond)
- Washington Irving "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
- Characteristics: gloomy settings horror Suspense & Mystery
- Edgar Alan Poe "Pit & the Pendalum"
- Washington Irving "The Devil and Tom Walker"
- Romanticism Period (1800-1860)
- Characteristics: stories of chivalry and love poems related to romance heroes and knights
- Walt Whitman "Leaves of Grass"
- Henry David Thoreau "Walden"
- Emily Dickinson "That I did always Love"
- Characteristics: rich mix of literary styles romantic ideas adventure
- Nathaniel Hawthorne "Scarlett Letter"
- American Renaissance/Transcendentalism Period (1820-1860)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Representative Men"
- Herman Melville "Moby Dick"
- Realism Period (1865-1910)
- Joseph Kirkland "The Captain of Company K"
- Mark Twain "The Adventures of Huckleberrry Finn"
- Henry James "The Art of Fiction"
- Characteristics: layered characters narrative style mimics reality closely
- Modernism Period (1900-1950)
- Characteristics: challenges traditions theme of emancipation moved beyond realism
- TS Eliot "The Waste Land"
- James Joyce "Ulysses"
- Jean Rhys "Good Morning, Midnight"
- Harlem Renaissance Period (1920's)
- Arna Bontemps "God sends Sunday"
- Characteristics: real life of African Americans African American culture Led to Civil Rights Movement
- Langston Hughes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
- Sterling A. Brown "The Negro Caravan"
- Joseph Heller "Catch 22"
- Hunter S. Thompson "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
- Post Modernism Period (1950-present)
- Characteristics: instability skepticism paranoia vicious circles
- Bret Easton Ellis "American Psycho"
- Alex Haley "Roots"
- Contemporary Period (1970-present)
- John Irving "The World According to Garp"
- John Updike "Rabbit, Run"
- Characteristics: personal experiences society experiences sufferings
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