European Literary Movements: A Timeline

European Literary Movements

(1660-1785)………………….  Neoclassicism

(1789-1830)………………….. Romanticism

(1836-1860)………………….. Transcendentalism (America)

(1880-1939)………………….. Irish Literary Renaissance, Celtic Revival

(1850s-1870s)…………………Realism

1880s………………………….Naturalism

late 19^th C. –  20^th C………….Symbolist movement

(1914-1920s)………………….WWI, High Modernism

(1912–192os)………………… Georgian movement

(1912-1917)………………….. Imagism

early 20^th C………………….  Futurism (Italy)

(1915-1920s)………………… Dadaism (France & Germany)

1924…………………………. Andre Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto, Surrealism, between the world wars

(1910-1920s)………………… Expressionism (Germany)

early 20^th C. ………………... Impressionism

(1930s-19802)……………….  Social Realism (Russia)

late 19^th C. – mid 20^th C. ……...Existentialism

(1950s- after the WWII)…………..Theatre of the Absurd