Puritan/Colonial Period in New England 1607-9 Jamestown founded, Hudson explores Hudson River 1611
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Timetable of American History & Literature 1609-1776 Puritan/Colonial Period in New England 1607-9 Jamestown founded, Hudson explores Hudson River 1611 King James Bible 1620 Arrival of the Mayflower at Plymouth, Mayflower Compact 1622 first regular newspaper 1580-1631 Captain John Smith saved by Pocahontas and writes The General History of Virginia 1630 John Winthrop leads the Puritan migration to Massachusetts Bay. Prints his journal, A History of New England 1633 Harvard College founded William Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantation
First book published in America, the Bay Psalm Book 1647 George Fox begins to preach 1662 Wigglesworth poem, Day of Doom 1667-78 To My dear and Loving Husband, Anne Bradstreet George Fox (1624-1692) preaching 1682 Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity and Restauration 1692 Salem witch trials 1700 Population of English colonies reaches 250,000 1702-1714 First American newspaper Cotton Mather, Puritan essays to reconcile religion & science; a clergyman, theologian, writer (Puritan literary ideal). Ecclesiastical History of New England
Wesley brothers visit America Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac1
French-Indian War Birth of the novel
Jonathan Edwards becomes president of College of N.J.(later called, Princeton), dies of an inoculation Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) French Voltaire4, Candide5, brutal mockery of Job6 1754-63 French and Indian War Tristram Shandy7, Laurence Sterne 1772 On the Rising Glory of America, Philip Freneau (Princeton commencement poem) 1773 Boston tea party Phillis Wheatley, On being … Africa to America
Battle at Concord's North Bridge 1776-1820 Democratic Origins & Revolutionary Writers, Romanticism, Pantheism Cult of nature, stop thinking, start feeling 1776 Declaration of Independence/War of Independence8 1787-94 The Constitution ratified by the states. Alexander Hamilton and James Madison write 85 essays defending constitution, the Federalist Papers. George Washington elected first president of the United States
The Bill of Rights ratified by the states 1800 Biology becomes a recognized area of study9 Thomas Jefferson elected president
Lewis & Clark expedition 1807-8 James Madison elected president 1820-1865 American Romantic Renaissance Movement Victorian/Realism/Naturalism Romantic/Neoclassic, emerging Romanticism 1811-1828 Emerson lives with grandparents in Concord in the Old Manse during War of 1812 at age eleven Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Jane Austen Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper Thanatopsis, Wm Cullen Bryant, links American literature to English Romanticism Henry David Thoreau bn. in Concord in 1817 (d.1862) Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language, insists America has her own language
Darwin sails on the Beagle to the Galapagos Islands Siege of the Alamo; Texas declares its independence
The Alcotts move to Concord, collaborate with Emerson to publish transcendental journal, the Dial 1841 Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64)rents the Old Manse, former home of Emerson’s grandfather, for three years Thoreau’s brother and Emerson’s son die Alcott’s begin a one year experiment in communal living on 90-acre farm near Harvard, MA 1844 Samuel Morse invents the telegraph10 The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe Emerson purchases “a wood lot by Walden Pond” 1845 United States annexes Texas Hard Times11, Charles Dickens Narrative of the Life of an American Slave, by Frederick Douglass Alcott’s buy a place .5 miles from Emerson with grant from Emerson, name it Hillside Emerson begins 2-year experiment in cabin on Emerson’s land by Walden Pond. Anti-slavery society meets on his doorstep12
Mormon trek westward Evangeline, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Bronte. 1848 Gold discovered in California 1850 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, American romanticism with Puritan roots Charles G Finney (1792-1875) preaching 1851 Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1819-1891) 1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Idylls of the King, Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) Hawthornes return to Concord and purchase the Alcott’s home, renaming it the Wayside 1854-1859 Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau13(self reliance, contemplate nature) Origin of Species14, Darwin 1855 Leaves of Grass, ded. to Thoreau, by Walt Whitman 1857-1859 The Dred Scott decision 1860 Abraham Lincoln elected president 1861 Outbreak of the Civil War; first battle of Bull Run Thoreau diees in 1862 of TB, buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Emancipation Proclamation Battles of Vicksburg & Gettysburg
Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House end of the Civil War Assassination of President Lincoln Post-Civil War- 1914Rise of realism to naturalism 1867 Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens (1835-1910)leads away from romanticism towards realism United States purchases Alaska C H Spurgeon (1834-1892) preaching
Edward M Bounds (1835-1913) preaching 1869 completion of the first transcontinental railroad John D. Rockefeller forms the Standard Oil Company
Emerson’s home burns, the Alcott sisters rescue some manuscripts, he leaves abroad 1873 Emerson, now 70, returns home to find his home and library restored by friends and neighbors 1876 telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell 1877 phonograph invented by Thomas Edison incandescent bulb invented by Edison Alcott’s purchase the Thoreau house 1880 population exceeds 50 million 1881-1884 Emily Dickinson (1830-86), various poetry16 The Joyful Knowledge, Nietzsche17, God is dead! The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (1843-1916) gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Huckleberry Finn18, Mark Twain (first modern American novel) Walt Whitman (1819-1892) visits Emerson and walks the Walden woods 1882 Emerson dies, buried on Author’s Ridge in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery 1886-1893 Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane Bronson Alcott dies, Louisa May dies two days later, buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Chicago World's Fair
invention of motion picture 1898 Spanish-American War 1903 The Call of the Wild, Jack London19 the Wright brothers' first flight 1904 The Golden Bowl by Henry James 1909 first Model T Ford produced 1911 Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 1913 O Pioneers! by Willa Cather The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost (1874-1963) 1914-1965 Modern/Agnostic20 disillusionment with ideals and civilization, American drama flourishes North of Boston by Robert Frost outbreak of World War I completion of the Panama Canal
German submarine sinks Lusitania Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity
United States enters into World War I 1919-1922 Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Prohibition enacted population exceeds 100 million
Scopes Trial My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather Lady Chatterley’s Lover22, D H Lawrence Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic 1929 The Sound and the Fury by Wm. Faulkner (1897-1962) A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) A Room of One’s Own23, Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Stock Market Crash 1930 E E Cummings (1894-1962) experimental poetry television broadcasting begins
outbreak of World War II in Asia 1938 Orson Welles' radio broadcast "War of the Worlds" Our Town, Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) 1939-1942 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Collected Poems, A E Housman (1859-1936) outbreak of World War II in Europe Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor United States enters World War II 1945 atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Post WWII1944 The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams 1949 Dr Faustus, Thomas Mann (1875-1955) Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, realism 1984, George Orwell 1951 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger Complete Poems, Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) 1952 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison East of Eden, John Steinbeck 1953 end of Korean War Literary Essays of Ezra Pound (1885-1972) On Poets and Poetry, T S Eliot (1888-1965) 1961 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy Post-Modern/Atheistic Nihilistic, anti-Christian, fully subjective 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated Robert Kennedy assassinated Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll 1969 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Neil Armstrong becomes first man on the moon Woodstock, the event and the poem by Joni Mitchell 1973 Vietnam Peace Agreement 1974 resignation of President Nixon over Watergate scandal 1989 end of the Cold War RESOURCES:
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This timetable may be reproduced without prior permission as long as it is photocopied ‘as is,’ and in its entirety. Contact Thelma English at the website below for more information or to report any errors. 1 Franklin’s 13th Virtue was to “imitate Jesus and Socrates.” 2 “I am commencing [said Rousseau] an undertaking, hitherto without precedent, and which will never find an imitator. I desire to set before my fellow-men the likeness of a man in all the truth of nature, and that man is myself. Myself alone! I know the feelings of my heart, and I know men. I am not made like any of those I have seen; I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence.” 3 He applied primitivism to his political agenda, the idea that civilization has spoiled the Noble Savage. 4 “What a light has burst over Europe within the last few years! It first illuminated all the princes of the north; it has even come into the universities. It is the light of common sense!” Rouseau 5 Written in three days. 6 Opinion of Frederick the Great, a patron of Voltaire 7 A spontaneous, chaotic account of several years in the character’s life. Denounced and highly acclaimed. 8 The bloody French Revolution and the American War for Independence are linked with the age of Romanticism. 9 Absolute truth will be displaced by relative, pragmatic truths that science will proclaim 10 What faith had been to the Middle Ages, science would be to the coming 19th century. 11 Dickens’ harshest indictment of English social problems during his time. 12 “An immoral law makes it a man’s duty to break it” 13 A Transcendentalist. 14 The theory of evolution was defended by intellectuals and scientists against theological objections, and was taken as confirmation that progress was the natural direction of life. The controversy helped define popular ideas of the dedicated scientist and ever-expanding human knowledge of and control over the world. “survival of the fittest” and “natural selection” suggest that strength and force win over right, and moral absolutes become relative. 15 Science brought confidence to mankind. It was felt that the heart and feelings were the key to understanding and meaning, Transcendentalism. 16 She was greatly influenced by Jonathan Edwards and Emerson. 17 Like Kierkegaard, Nietzsche was an existentialist. 18 Example of social comment, the Noble Savage. 19 Greatly influenced by Marx, Darwin, and Nietzsche. 20 One who believes that there can be no proof of the existence of God but does not deny the possibility that God exists. 21 Banned, burned, then devoured. One day in a man’s life. 22 His writing and painting was proclaimed obscene. 23 A classic of feminist movement, interior monologue. Winter Workshop 2003, American Literature [A-4] www.thelmaslibrary.com Directory: notes notes -> Literary Response Essay notes -> Ase la 02: Argument Based Writing Steve Schmidt notes -> Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance The American Scholar Nature Emerson notes -> Notes – Accomplishment and Recognition Essay Scattered Thoughts, Tips, and Suggestion notes -> Freedom of Speech Professor Matt Thatcher notes -> Shareholder oppressoin michael Zammit Blackstone Chambers introduction notes -> Timeline of gay activism notes -> Exam on wed 1/3 Fill in the Blank notes -> Notes on Ethos, Pathos, and Logos: the three pillars of persuasion Download 42.61 Kb. Share with your friends:
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