LibGuides: American Literature English 2130: Welcome

Literary Movements in American Literature

Native American LIt -1490-1700's
Early Settlers 1500's - 1670's
Puritanism 1620 - 1790
American Enlightenment
Romanticism - 1820 - 1860
Fireside Poets - Mid 19th Century
Transcendentalism - 1830 - 1850
Realism and Regionalism - 1860 - 1914
Naturalism Late 1800's - Early 1900's
Modernism - 1914 - 1945
Harlem Renaissance - 1920 - 1930
Beat Movement 1950's
Post- Modernism - 1950 - On
Contemporary - 1970's - On
Pluralism - Late 20th Century
Magical Realism - Late 20th Century

American Literature

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

Faulkner and His Contemporaries

Nineteenth Century Writers

Ways of Making Literature Matter

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