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Period: 450 to 1066
OLD ENGLISH
Region:
England (except the extreme south-west and north-west), southern and eastern Scotland, and the eastern fringes of modern Wales.
Dialects
Kentish
Mercian
Northumbrian
West Saxon -
Period: 1066 to 1500
MIDDLE ENGLISH
Region England, some parts of Wales, south east Scotland and Scottish burghs, to some extent Ireland
Language family
Indo-European
Germanic
West Germanic
North Sea Germanic
Anglo-Frisian
Anglic -
Period: 1500 to
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
Desciption
It was a cultural and artistic movement in England
Regions
Bengal England France Germany Italy Poland Portugal Spain Scotland Northern Europe Low Countries
Criticism
Criticism
important actors
Elizabethan-Jacobean-Carolina -
Period: to
PURITAN
Crucial themes
Definitions of Puritanism
Impropriation
Puritan Sabbatarianism
Millennialism
Puritan choir
Puritan work ethic
Merton thesis History
under Queen Elizabeth I
under King James I
under King Charles I
Cromwellian era and after
in North America Confessions
Westminster Confession of Faith
Savoy Declaration
Cambridge Platform -
Period: to
RESTORATION AGE
It which corresponds to the last years of the direct Stuart reign in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland Denote roughly homogeneous styles of literature that center on a celebration of or reaction to the restored court of Charles II. It is a literature that includes extremes, for it encompasses both Paradise Lost and the Earl of Rochester's Sodom, the high-spirited sexual comedy of The Country Wife and the moral wisdom of The Pilgrim's Progress. -
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18th Century
Augustan and age of sensibility 1660: Restoration–Charles II, Stuart monarchy
1662: Royal Society established
1685: James, Duke of York, succeeds his brother Charles II
1688: Glorious Revolution–James II deposed, William and Mary share the English throne
1689: Bill of Rights–limits crown, affirms supremacy of Parliament
1689: Toleration Act–religious freedom for dissenters
1690: John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding -
Period: to
ROMANTICISM
It was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century
Robert Burns (1759–1796) was a pioneer of the Romantic movement
After Blake, among the earliest Romantics were the Lake Poets, including William Wordsworth (1770–1850), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), Robert Southey (1774–1843) and journalist Thomas de Quincey (1785–1859). However, at the time Walter Scott (1771–1832) was the most famous poet -
Period: to
VICTORIAN
During the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901)
Charles Dickens (1812–1870) dominated the first part of Victoria's reign: his first novel, The Pickwick Papers, was published in 1836, and his last Our Mutual Friend between 1864–5. William Thackeray's (1811–1863) most famous work Vanity Fair appeared in 1848, and the three Brontë sisters, Charlotte (1816–55), Emily (1818–48) and
George Eliot's (1819–80) Middlemarch (1872),
Robert Browning (1812–89) and Alfred Tennyson (1809–92) -
Period: to
MODERN LITERATURE
Genres
Comedy Drama Epic Erotic Nonsense Lyric Mythopoeia Romance Satire Tragedy Tragicomedy
Media
Performance play Book
Techniques
Prose Poetry
History and lists
History modern
Outline Glossary of terms
Books Writers Literary awards poetry
Discussion
Criticism Theory (critical theory) Sociology Magazines -
Period: to
POST MOODERNS
It is literature characterized by reliance on narrative techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator; and is often (though not exclusively) defined as a style or a trend which emerged in the post–World War II era.
Postmodernity
Hypermodernity Metamodernism Posthumanism Postmaterialism Post-postmodernism Post-structuralism -
Period: to
CONTEMPORANY
Contemporary literature is literature with its setting generally after World War II. Subgenres of contemporary literature include contemporary romance. History
Below, contemporary literary movements are listed by decade. The list should not be assumed to be comprehensive