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OLD ENGLISH 450-1066
Old English literature or Anglo-Saxon literature, encompasses literature written in Old English, in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066 -
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MIDDLE ENGLISH 1066-1500
In 1295 the english parliament was established -
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ENGLISH RENAISSANCE 1500-1660
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE 1500-1660- Elizabethan: The Elizabethan era saw a great flowering of literature, especially in the field of theater. Known as the golden age. -Jacobean Jacobean literature was often dark humor, questioning the stability of the social order (1603–1625).
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-Augustan
It is a time that saw the rapid development of the novel, an explosion of satire, the evolution of theater from political satire to melodrama, and an evolution towards poetry of personal exploration -
PURITAN 1653-1660
Puritarism fought for justice and freedom. They tried to purify the Church from Catholic doctrines and rites and defend extreme moral rigidity and absolute adaptation of customs to evangelical morals. The greatest literary figure of the time was John Milton (1608-1674), a Puritan. -
RESTORATION AGE 1660-1700
A great age of drama. -
- Age of sensibility
Is the period in English. faith and superstition, to enlighten others, and led to the expansion of many social, economic, and cultural areas including astronomy, politics, and medicine. Samuel Johnson(1709–1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. -
18th CENTURY 1700-1798
English literature first enters the university in the 1760s, in Scotland -
ROMANTICISM 1798-1837
In general terms it focus on the writer or narrator's emotions and inner world; celebration of nature, beauty, and imagination; rejection of industrialization, organized religion, rationalism, and social convention; University College London began teaching in 1828 and included in its staff the first "Professor of English Language and Literature" of Great Britain. -
VICTORIAN 1837-1901
It is characterized by profound changes in cultural sensitivities and political concerns the University of Cambridge established an examination board on "Medieval and modern languages" that included English as one of its subjects in 1878 Oxford University had a chair in English language and literature in 1885 -
MODERN LITERATURE 1901-1940
It is characterized by a very self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose fiction. The University of Cambridge creates a separate chair in English literature in 1911 American literature began to be taught in its own right since the late nineteenth century as well. In the late 1930s and 1940s -
POST MODERNS 1940-2000
The massive expansion of higher education in the English-speaking world from the 1960s onwards 1970 awareness of English as a language not only for white Britons and their descendants in the former colonies, but also for millions of people of all races worldwide -
AGE CONTEMPORARY
Contemporary literature is the literature that includes the period from the nineteenth century to the present. There are many writers who participate in this literature, and for obvious reasons it is the largest existing.
