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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