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Sturm und drang
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William Wordsworth
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The lyrical ballads
Collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, considered beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. -
Preface
Manifesto of English Romantic poetry -
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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My heart leaps up (William Wordsworth)
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De l'Allemagne
Literary and philosophical essay written by Madame de Stael -
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Charles Dickens
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Lettera semiseria di Grisostomo al suo figliuolo
Giovanni Berchet -
Age of reform
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The Victorian Age
Age of economic and scientific progress and social reforms. -
Chartism
Movement asking for the extension of the right to vote to all male adults -
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First Opium War
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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The Irish Potato Famine
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If Thou Must Love Me, Let It Be for Naught (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Sonnets from the Portuguese -
Great Exhibition (Crystal Palace)
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Hard Times (Charles Dickens)
"Mr. Gradgrind", "Coketown". -
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Oscar Wilde
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Second Opium War
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Indian Mutiny
Widespread rebellion against British rule. -
London Underground
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Novels written by women
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Aesthetic Movement
Last decades of the 19th century. It began in France with Gautier. The main theorist of the Aesthetic Movement in England was Walter Peter. -
Le Décadent
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James Joyce
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Period: to
Virginia Woolf
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A rebours
Written by Huysmans (France). -
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Siegfried Sassoon
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Il piacere
Written by D'Annunzio (Italy). -
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
"The Preface" -
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The Yellow Book
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The Importance of being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
"The Interview". -
The Interpretation of Dreams (Freud)
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Modernism
First decades of the 20th century -
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Edwardian Age
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John Steinbeck
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Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
Emmeline Pankhurst, "Suffragettes". -
Etente Cordiale (Britain and France)
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Labour Party
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Wystan Hugh Auden
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Imagism
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Irish Republican Army
MIlitant nationalist organisation. -
In a Station of the Metro (Ezra Pound)
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Dubliners (James Joyce)
Eveline -
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First World War
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Lusitania
A German submarine sank the British passenger liner Lusitania. -
Easter Rising (rebellion in Dublin)
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Battle of the Somme
War of attrition -
Battle of Caporetto
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United States joined the war
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Women (over 30) vote in Britain
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Women's suffrage
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Glory of Women (Siegfried Sassoon)
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Armistice Day
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Peace treaty (Versailles)
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IRA declared open war on Britain
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Bloody Sunday
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Anglo-irish treaty
Irish Free State as an independente State within the British Commonwealth. -
Irish Civil War
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Annus mirabilis (Ulysses, Joyce - Waste Land, Eliot)
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Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
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Commonwealth
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General Strike
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Wall Street Crash
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Testament of Youth (Vera Brittain)
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This Is Just to Say (W.C.Williams)
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Government of India Act
Self-government at a provincial level. -
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
From fear to anger -
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Seamus Heaney
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Refugee Blues (Auden)
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Digging (Seamus Heaney)
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Sherman Alexie)
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The Facebook Sonnet (Sherman Alexie)
