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The Anglo-Saxon period (450-1066)
The old English period or the Anglo-Saxon period (450-1066)
It started in the 5th century when Jutes and Saxons came to England from Germany. I finish in 1066 with the Norman conquest in this period Christianity arrives, Monasteries settled down, English literature began the heroic deeds of love for the Marine adventure, intense love for glory and savagery were its main characteristics. The well-known writers of this genre were Caedmon, first English poet and Bede the first historian. -
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MIDDLE ENGLISH 1066 - 1500
The transition from Old English to Middle English began with the Norman Conquest of 1066, when William the Conqueror invaded the island of Great Britain. The Anglo-Norman French became the language of the kings and nobility of England for more than 300 years (Henry IV, who came to the English throne in 1399, was the first monarch since before the Conquest to have English as a language maternal -
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ENGLISH RENAISSANCE 1500 - 1660
From the 14th century to the 1470s Elizabethan literature.
English literature from 1603 to 1625 is appropriately called Jacobean, by the new monarch, James I.
The Caroline was dominate by the growing religious political and social conflict between the King and his supporters termed the Royalist party , and the Puritan opposition. -
PURITAN 1653 - 1660
Important topics for most Puritans Separation of the Roman Catholic Church and its traditions. Move away from the episcopate towards a reformed Protestant church and theology. The strict observance of the Sabbath and the contempt of the festivals and the days of the Saints. -
RESTORATION AGE 1660 - 1700
It is so called because the monarchy was restored in England, and Charles II, the son of Charles I who had been defeated and beheaded, returned to England from exile in France and became the king. -
18 th CENTURY 1700 - 1798
This was a time of violent slave trade, and global human trafficking. The reactions against the monarchical and aristocratic power helped to nourish the revolutionary responses against him throughout the whole century.In continental Europe, philosophers dreamed of a brighter age. For some, this dream became a reality with the French Revolution of 1789. -
VICTORIAN 1837 - 1901
In continental Europe, philosophers dreamed of a brighter age. For some, this dream became a reality with the French Revolution of 1789, -
ROMANTICISM 1798 - 1837
It began in Germany and was strongly influenced by the political climate of the time (like the French Revolution in 1789). In England, romanticism represented a return to the old Elizabethan passionate writing (and Germanic roots) in opposition to the neoclassical period (and its French influence). It is traditionally considered that it began in 1798 with the publication of the lyrical ballads of Wordsworth and Coleridge. Nglish Literature written by women and by post-colonial
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MODERN LITERATURE 1901- 1940
It was a movement that began a radical break with nineteenth-century Victorianism, leading to postmodernism, which emphasized self-consciousness and pop art.
The "traditional" forms were art, architecture, literature, religious faith, social organization and daily life challenged the assumption of reality that is at the roots of realism. -
POST MODERNS 1940 - 2000
The intensive commercialisation of the book market,
The popularisation of audio-visual narrative media, which is often said to be a direct cause of the alleged decline of Literature, and
The growth of English Literature written by women and by post-colonial. -
CONTEMPORARY 2001 – 2020
In the later decades of the 20th Century, the genre of science fiction began to be taken more seriously because of the work of writers such as Arthur C. Clarke's (2001: A Space Odyssey), Isaac Asimov, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Heinlein, Michael Moorcock and Kim Stanley Robinson.
