History of English Literature

HISTORY OF ENGLISH HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURELITERATURE

Compiled by: Thomas YoumanCompiled by: Thomas Youman

1. What is Literature?1. What is Literature?

Literature refers to the practice and Literature refers to the practice and profession of writing. It comes from human profession of writing. It comes from human interest in telling a story, in arranging words interest in telling a story, in arranging words in artistic forms, in describing in words some in artistic forms, in describing in words some aspects of human experiences.aspects of human experiences.

2. Why we read Literature?2. Why we read Literature?

PleasurePleasure RelaxationRelaxation KnowledgeKnowledge

3. Old English Period3. Old English Period469 AD - 1066 AD 469 AD - 1066 AD

Three conquests.Three conquests. The Song of Beowulf:The Song of Beowulf:

Middle English LiteratureMiddle English Literature

Bible translations,Bible translations, Geoffrey Chaucer: Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury TalesThe Canterbury Tales

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Renaissance Literature Renaissance Literature

Vernacular Literature.Vernacular Literature. William Caxton.William Caxton. Book of Common Prayer.Book of Common Prayer.

Early Modern PeriodEarly Modern Period

Elizabethan EraElizabethan Era Jacobean LiteratureJacobean Literature Caroline and Cromwellian LiteratureCaroline and Cromwellian Literature Restoration LiteratureRestoration Literature Augustan Literature.Augustan Literature.

Elizabethan EraElizabethan Era

William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare Hamlet,Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet,Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of VeniceThe Merchant of Venice MacbethMacbeth

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Jacobean LiteratureJacobean Literature

Post-Shakespeare.Post-Shakespeare. Dramatist Ben Jonson: Dramatist Ben Jonson:

TTheory of Humorsheory of HumorsBeaumont and FletcherBeaumont and FletcherThe Knight of the Burning PestleThe Knight of the Burning Pestle

Caroline and Cromwellian Caroline and Cromwellian LiteratureLiterature

Commonwealth.Commonwealth. Samuel Pepys.Samuel Pepys. Great Plague.Great Plague. Great Fire of London.Great Fire of London.

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Restoration LiteratureRestoration Literature

John Milton:John Milton: Paradise LostParadise Lost The Country WifeThe Country Wife Pilgrim’s ProgressPilgrim’s Progress

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Augustan LiteratureAugustan Literature

Jonathan Swift:Jonathan Swift: A Tale of a TubA Tale of a Tub Gulliver’s TravelsGulliver’s Travels

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18th Century18th Century

Age of Enlightment.Age of Enlightment. Age of Sensibility.Age of Sensibility. Horace Walpole: Horace Walpole: The Castle of OtrantoThe Castle of Otranto

RomanticismRomanticism

Industrialism.Industrialism. William Blake: Romantic AgeWilliam Blake: Romantic Age Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Mary Shelley: Mary Shelley:

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Victorian LiteratureVictorian Literature

Charles Dickens.Charles Dickens. Arthur Conan Doyle: Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlok HolmesSherlok Holmes

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English Literature since 1900English Literature since 1900

Modernism: Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, Modernism: Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf

Post-Modern Literature: Truman CapotePost-Modern Literature: Truman Capote Post World War II: J.R.R. TolkienPost World War II: J.R.R. Tolkien

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