History of English Literature

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    Comedy

    Comedy
    Aristoteles was the first to mention about this gender, he wrote some shorts stories about it.
  • 970

    Drama

    Drama
    There are some short texts that show a little bit about this gender, but we do not know about the specific date when drama appeared.
  • 1553

    The first comedy recognized

    The first comedy recognized
    It was written by Nicholas Udall. "roister Doister"
  • Period: 1564 to

    Shakespeare

    It was one of the greatest authors in the world, during his life he wrote important stories in drama gender like "Pericles" and "The tempest".
  • Period: to

    Poetry

    Different texts have been written using this gender of writing.

  • Tragedy

    Tragedy
    There is a poem "Samson Agonistes" written in 1671 that express tragedy and since then, there have been written some stories using this gender.
  • Period: to

    Novel

    It does not have a specific date but in the XVIII century appeared this gender.

  • English literature enters the university

    English literature enters the university
    English literature first enters the university in Scotland under the label of "Rhetoric and belles Lettres"
  • Period: to

    XIX Century

    English Literature in the nineteenth- century universities became instead a way of connecting yourself to the past.

  • First professor in English language and literature

    First professor in English language and literature
    University College London began teaching language and literature.

  • Second professor in English language and literature

    Second professor in English language and literature
    King’s College London started the class with a professor too.

  • Professor in Literature in Glasgow Scotland

    Professor in Literature in Glasgow Scotland
    One of the representatives universities started with a professor for English language and literature.

  • First professor of literature in Ireland

    First professor of literature in Ireland
    Trinity College Dublin was the first college to start with a professor for language and literature.

  • First examination board

    First examination board
    It was created by Cambridge university as an examination board in "Medieval and modern languages" which included English as one of its topics.

  • First professorship in English language and literature

    First professorship in English language and literature
    It was stablished by Oxford University.

  • Professorship in Literature

    Professorship in Literature
    Cambridge University reply to Oxford with a different career.
  • Period: to

    It borns "Culture"

    Some university teachers, of whom I. A. Richards and F. R. and Q. D. Leavis at Cambridge were the most influential, saw the rise of ‘mass civilization’ as a threat to what they called ‘culture’.
  • Period: to

    American literature started to be taught

    American Literature began to be taught; American teachers developed an approach to studying literature which was immediately chris-tened ‘the New Criticism’: the best known New Critics being John Crowe Ransom, Cleanth Brooks, William K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley.

  • Some texts better than others?

    Some texts better than others?
    For Hugh Blair, for the nineteenth- century professors, for the Cambridge people in the twenties and thirties, and for the New Critics in the 1940s, there was no question about this: some texts, and some types of writing, were just better than others.

  • A change in the nature of literature

    A change in the nature of literature
    It was in the 1960s that a shift in the nature of literary studies began which remains the context in which English Literature is taught in universities today.