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428 BCE
CELTIC AND ROMAN BRITAIN
From around 750 BC to 12 BC, the Celts were the most powerful people in central and northern Europe. There were many groups (tribes) of Celts, speaking a vaguely common language. The word Celt comes from the Greek word, Keltoi, which means barbarians and is properly pronounced as "Kelt" -
428 BCE
OLD ENGLISH
HISTORICAL OR NON ENGLISH / AMERICAN ITEM
‘Old English’ implied that there was a cultural continuity between the England of the sixth century and the England of the nineteenth century (when German, and later British, philologists determined that there had been phases in the development of the English language which they described as ‘Old’, ‘Middle’, and ‘Modern’). -
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Period: 450 to 1100
OLD ENGLISH ( ANGLO-SAXON) PERIOD
encompasses literature written in Anglo-Saxon (Old English) during the 600-year Anglo-Saxon period of Britain, from the mid-5th century to the Norman Conquest of 1066. These works include genres such as epic poetry, hagiography, sermons, Bible translations, legal works, chronicles, riddles, and others.450-1066*;oral tradition, narrative poems, religious themes*Norman conquest of England by the French -
Period: 476 to 1492
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
SIGLO XV -XVI -
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Period: 1050 to 1050
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1066
BATTLE OF HASTINGS ( NORMAN CONQUEST)
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1140
FULL MIDDLE AGE
POEMA DEL MIO CID
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1215
SIGNING OF THE CARTA MAGNA
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1307
DANTE'S DIVINA COMEDIA
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1387
CHAUCER, "prologue" to Canterbury Tales
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1492
COLOMBUS LANDS IN AMERICA
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Period: 1500 to
THE RENAISSANCE ( in England; 1607-1780 is considered the "Colonial" period in America)
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1517
Martin Luther post his theses in Wittenberg, leading to Protestant Reformation.
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1532
Machiavelli, The Prince.
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1539
English Bible. The "Great Bible"
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Shakespeare's Hamlet
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Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part I
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Settlement at Jamestown, Virginia
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King James translation of the Bible *1620
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Bay Psalm Book: first book printed in America
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Pilgrims land at Plymouth
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*1660 — Charles II restored to the throne ("The Restoration")
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1660 — 1798: Neoclassical Period (also known as "The Long 18th Century"
1660-1798;"new classic"Return to Ancient Roman/ Greek leaders -plays-orations-fixed form poetry -
John Milton, Paradise Lost
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Sir Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica
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Salem witchcraft executions
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Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
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onathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
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Samuel Richardson, Pamela
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Ben Franklin, Autobiography
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1783-85 — Noah Webster, Grammatical Institute of the English Language (speller, grammar, reader)
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ROMANTIC PERIOD
The period we are considering begins in the latter half of the reign of George III and ends with the accession of Victoria in 1837. When on a foggy morning in November, 1783, King George entered the House of Lords and in a trembling voice recognized the independence of the United States of America. -
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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Edgar Allan Poe, Poems
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1832-1870: Early Victorian Age (English Literature)
The Victorian Age in English literature began in second quarter of the nineteenth century and ended by 1900. Though strictly speaking, the Victorian age ought to correspond with the reign of Queen Victoria, which extended from 1837 to 1901, yet literary movements rarely coincide with the exact year of royal accession or death. -
1847 — Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights; Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
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Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species
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1865-1914: Realistic Period (American Literature)
1865-1914 <– (after civil war)social stories without obvious presence of the author. In American literature, the term "realism" encompasses the period of time from the Civil War to the turn of the century during which William Dean Howells, Rebecca Harding Davis, Henry James, Mark Twain, and others wrote fiction devoted to accurate representation and an exploration of American lives in various contexts. -
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
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1900 — Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
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Naturalistic and Symbolistic Period (American Only)
Naturalism sought to go further and be more explanatory than Realism by identifying the underlying causes for a person’s actions or beliefs. The thinking was that certain factors, such as heredity and social conditions, were unavoidable determinants in one’s life. A poor immigrant could not escape their life of poverty because their preconditions were the only formative aspects in his or her existence that mattered. -
James Joyce, Ulysses; T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land.
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William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
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1939-1945: The Second World War
The outbreak of war in 1939, as in 1914, brought to an end an era of great intellectual and creative exuberance. Individuals were dispersed; the rationing of paper affected the production of magazines and books; and the poem and the short story, convenient forms for men under arms, became the favoured means of literary expression. It was hardly a time for new beginnings, although the poets of the New Apocalypse movement produced three anthologies (1940–45) inspired by Neoromantic anarchism. -
Vladmir Nabokov, Lolita
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Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
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1965 - ? Postmodernist Period •
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Sylvia Plath, Ariel
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Alice Walker, The Color Purple
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Raymond Carver, Cathedral
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Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
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Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club; Thoman Pynchon, Vineland
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The Contemporary Period
In this period, novels and works related to fantasy and fiction stand out more, being very similar to the previous period. In this period stand out works such as ''The Hunger Games'' (2010) by Suzanne Collins, and ''Cormoran Strike'' (2013) by J.K Rowling.
