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Anglo Saxon 449-1066
Medieval 1066-1485
Renaissance 1485-1660
Neo-Classical 1660-1798
Classicism 1700-1800
The Romantic Period 1800-1837
The Victorian Period 1837-1900
Modern Period 1900-Present
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Beowulf (epics)
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1066-1485 Arthurian Legends
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)—Father of English Literature
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1485-1660
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Social, Cultural, and Educational Reform Began in Italy--dissatisfaction with medieval
Christianity. Emancipation of the individual—opposition to
authority (Dante, Petrarch, Machiavelli)
Individuals govern through eloquence and wit.
Product of Humanism
Less educated
than traditional Humanists
1564-1616
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1660-1798
Glorification of distant past
The age of façade Rise of the Middle Class Puritan revolution Authors: John Milton Paradise Lost Ben Jonson satirical playwright
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1700-1800
Age of Reason
Rapid social development
Public Tea Houses
Authors: Dryden, Swift, Pope
Rise of satire and prose: Politics meet Literature
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1800-1837
“The spontaneous over flow of powerful
feelings.”—William Wordsworth
Connections with Nature and to God
through Nature
French Revolution
Tabula Rosa
Noble Savage
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Wounded with some secret, usually from
childhood
Rebellious
Anti-social in some aspects—untactful
Darkly Romantic
Hot
A bad boy persona
Brooding; in exile perhaps (hiding)
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Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin August 30, 1797, in London, England.
Daughter of philosopher and political writer William Godwin and famed feminist Mary Wollstonecraft—the author of The Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), who died shortly after her birth.
No formal education but listened to frequent guests Coleridge and Wordsworth.
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Age 17 with Percy Shelley
After party of ghost stories—contest, age 19
Percy Shelley’s wife dies—they marry, 4 children
Writes for $ 6 adaptations of book
during her lifetime!
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1837-1900
Great Exhibition to London in 1851,
showing the superiority of England’s
scientific, social, and technological
achievements.
Authors: Dickens, Bronte sisters, William
Makepiece Thackeray, John Bunyon, George
Elliot, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Oscar Wilde
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Married at 20
9 children!
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No mention of sex—no showing arms and
legs.
Strict Social Rules; High moral purpose
Punishment of crime, severe
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Technology
Self-Confidence for Britain
Prosperity
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Brings Wealth and Power
Scientific Advancements
Mass Production
Move from Rural to Urban culture
Age of Steam
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Overcrowding, disease, hunger, squalor
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Chimney Sweeps, Coal Mines, Factories
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Primary Genre
Realism: child abuse, corrupt education,
discrimination of women, slums
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1900-Present
The novel flourishes
Science and technology prevail
Classic beliefs standard criteria for
excellence
Authors: Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad,
Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, D.H Lawrence,
Rudyard Kipling
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