DEVELOPMENT OF

AMERICAN
LITERATURE
Reported: Yaroslav
Mishchenko
TIMELINE OF DEVELOPMENT
1800s Unique American
Before 16th centery 1600s 1700s
Style
early era Colonia Period Early US Literatur

Post World War II Turn the Century 19th century

1950s-21st century 20th Realism American Poetry
 COLONIA PERIOD
During this time writings extolling the
benefits of the colonies.

Captain John Smith could be considered the

first American author with his works: “A
True Relation of ... Virginia” (1608).
Two key figures were Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine.
Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac and The Autobiography of
Benjamin Franklin are respected works with their wit and
influence toward the formation of a budding American identity.
 EARLY U.S. LITERATURE
Much of the early literature of the new nation tried to find a uniquely American
voice. European forms and styles were often transferred to new locales and critics
often saw them as bad one.

The first American novel is

Thomas Jefferson's United States sometimes considered to be William
Declaration of Independence Hill Brown's The Power of
Sympathy(співчуття) (1789)
 UNIQUE AMERICAN STYLE

Irving, often considered the first

writer to develop a unique
American style wrote humorous
works in Salmagundi and the well-
known satire “A History of New Works from Melville (Moby-Dick), Hawthorne (Scarlet
York, by Diedrich Knickerbocker” Letter), and Poe (The Fall of the House of Usher) all
(1809). comprise the Dark Romanticism subgenre of literature
popular during this time.
 AMERICAN 19TH CENTURY
POETRY

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), on the Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was a working man, a traveler and a
other hand, lived the sheltered life. poetic innovator. His magnum work was “Leaves of Grass”.
Many of her poems dwell(зупинитись )
on death.
 REALISM

Mark Twain (the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Henry James (1843-1916)
Clemens, 1835-1910)His regional masterpieces were the Among his more well known works are the
memoir "Life on the Mississippi and the novel novellas "Daisy Miller", about an enchanting
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". American girl in Europe, and "The Turn of the Screw(гвинт)",
an enigmatic ghost story.
 POST-WORLD WAR II

The period in time from the end of

World War II up until the late
1960s and early 1970s saw to the
publication of some of the most
popular works in American history.
Regarding the war novel
specifically, there was a literary
explosion in America during the
post-World War II era.
Some of the most well known of the works
produced included Norman Mailer's The
Naked(голі) and the Dead (1948).