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Anglo SaxonEnlightenment
RomanticContemporary
• 400-1066 AD• Most referred to as Vikings• English literature originated from the Anglo
Saxon culture
ENLIGHTENMENT
ERA• 18th century• Originally developed in
France, Great Britain, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Portugal & American Colonies
• English (British) language used a lot of Latin roots
• Great literature came from this era
ERA.• Second half of the 18th century
• Poetry, art, music, dancing
• Had a major impact on education and language
1951-present
• Developed in the 19th century
• Post-romantic, and impressionism literature
• Mix of all genres of literature, in
one
Shakespeare• Tragedy
• Written in 1606 in England
• Used foreshadowing
• A lot of reading
Jonathan Swift• Written in 1726, Ireland
• About a man who travels all around the world pretending different people
• Became a very popular novel right away
Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley
• Written in Switzerland in 1816, and London 1816-1817
• Tone - Gothic, Romantic, Emotional, Tragic, Fatalistic
Charles Dickens• Published in 1866 as part of
the Mugby Junction collection.
• “The Signalman” was haunted by a ghost
• Two train collision caused by phantom warnings which really happened five years earlier
• Many readers relate to the text
GRAHAM GREENE
• Tragic story of a boy’s father who was killed by a falling pig
• Pigs were kept on balconies in Italy
• The pig got too fat and broke the balcony
JOSEPH CONRAD
• Novella written in 1898-1899, England
• Events in the story take place in Brussels, in the Congo, and then a Belgian territory
• A lot of symbolism used
Elisabeth RennerCITED
• www.sparknotes.com• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver's_Travels• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Signal-Man• http://www.enotes.com/graham-greene/q-and-a/
whats-shocking-accident-by-graham-greene-about-88847
• http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/heart/facts.html
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