1. Colonial Period -- The 1600s “Of Plymouth Plantation” Bradford “The General History of Virginia” John Smith “The Wonders of the Invisible World” Cotton Mather The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America Bradstreet Early 1700s “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Edwards

2. Age of Revolution. Eugène Delacroix – Liberty Guiding the People

3. Aka --Age of Reason—Enlightenment – 1700s “Declaration of Independence”—Jefferson Common Sense--Paine “The Autobiography” Ben Franklin “The Interesting Narrative…” Olaudah Equiano Phillis Wheatley--poetry

4. Romantic. Asher Durand - Kindred Spirits

5. Romanticism 1800-1865 Transcendentalists Emerson “Self Reliance”, Thoreau Walden Whitman Leaves of Grass Dickinson--poetry Gothic/anti- transcendentalists Hawthorne-- The Scarlett Letter Irving –Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon Poe—Tales of Mystery… Melville—Moby Dick

6. Realism. Honore Daumier’s Third Class Carriage

7. Realism. Winslow Homer's After the Hurricane

8. Realism/Naturalism 1865-World War I Stephan Crane—Red Badge of Courage Kate Chopin---The Awakening Mark Twain—The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Truth can be found in everyday events and experience.

9. Modernism. Edvard Munch’s The Scream

10. Modernism. Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory

11. Modernism. Picasso’s Guernica

12. Modernism (WW I—WWII) Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby Faulkner—The Sound and the Fury Steinbeck—The Grapes of Wrath ee cummings—poetry Robert Frost—poetry T. S. Eliot--poetry

13. Harlem Renaissance 1920s Langston Hughes—poetry Zora Neale Hurston—Their Eyes Were Watching God

14. Modernists’ Themes Alienation Isolation Non-communication Paranoia Paralysis

16. Post-Modernism. Jackson Pollock’s Full Fathom Five

17. Post-Modernism. Andy Warhol.

18. Post-Modernism (World War II-the present) Vonnegut—Cat’s Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five Heller—Catch 22 Salinger—Catcher in the Rye Poets—Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roethke, John Berrymen

19. Contemporary Alice Walker—The Color Purple Toni Morrison—Beloved, Song of Solomon Tim O’Brien—The Things They Carried Joyce Carol Oates, John Irving Poets—Sharon Olds, Billy Collins, Maya Angelou, Bob Dylan