-
1066
Old Englsih 450-1066
also called Anglo-Saxon, language spoken and written in England before 1100; it is the ancestor of Middle English and Modern English. example: The Lord's Prayer (Our Father) -
1500
Middle English 1066 - 1500
is the the vernacular spoken and written in England from about 1100 to about 1500, the descendant of the Old English language and the ancestor of Modern English. example: dialects -
Englsih Renaissance 1500- 1653
is a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th to the early 17th century. example: Queen Elizabeth I standing on a map of England. -
Puritan 1653 - 1700
is as a religious movement, believed in cleansing the church of all of its remaining Roman Catholic ties of Puritan literature were deeply religious and wrote in such a way to make God became easier for everyone to understand and more relevant in their day-to-day lives. example: Religious Text: The Bay Psalm Book -
Restoration Age 1660 -1700
is a age because monarchy was restored in England. Dryden was the representative writer of this period. ... They demanded that English poetry and drama should follow the style of French writers. example: The Restoration of the English Monarchy -
18th Century 1700 -1798
is a Protestant monarchy together with effective rule by Parliament. The new science of the time, Newtonian physics, reinforced the belief that everything, including human conduct, is guided by a rational order. example: The Castle of Otranto -
Romantisim 1798 - 1837
is one of the recurring themes that are linked to either imagination, idealism, inspiration, intuition, or individualism. . example: To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley. -
Victorian 1837 - 1901
is a traditional conceptions of man’s nature and place in the world were, as a consequence, under threat. example: The Art and Culture -
Modern Literature 1091 - 1941
is a predominantly English genere of fiction writing, popular from roughly the 1910s into the 1960s. Modernist literature came into its own due to increasing industrialization and globalization. example: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, oil on canvas by Édouard Manet, 1882; in the Courtauld Institute Galleries, London. -
Post Moderns 1940 - 2000
is a form of literature which is marked, both stylistically and ideologically, by a reliance on such literary conventions as fragmentation, paradox, unreliable narrators, often unrealistic and downright impossible plots, as examples games, parody, paranoia, dark humor and authorial self-reference. -
Comtemporary 2000-2020
Is contemporary literature is anything ‘of this moment’ - but in terms of literary study is often refers to anything after WW2. It follows ‘Modern’ literature which follows the post WW1 timeline (and coincides with Modernism).Examples: Life of Pi (Paperback),
The Road (Hardcover)
