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Beginning of the Industrial Revolution
Marks the beginning of the Romantic Period -
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The Romantic Period
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William Blake's SONGS OF INNOCENCE
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French Revolution
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William Blake's SONGS OF EXPERIENCE
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Woodsworth and Coleridge's LYRICAL BALLADS
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Woodsworth's I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD
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Mary Shelly's FRANKENSTEIN
Prime example of the Gothic Novel -
John Keats' ODE TO A GRECIAN URN
Furthers ideas of the beautiful verses the sublime -
George Byron's DON JUAN
Byron is one of hte most known authors of the Romantic Era. He is described much in the same way that his characters are; creating the Byronic Hero -
Victoria become Queen of England
This marks the beginning of the Victorian Period -
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Victorian Period
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Tennyson's THE LADY OF SHALOTT
Art is the tension between Absence and Presence -
Charles Dicken's "A CHRISTMAS CAROL"
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Edgar Allen Poe's THE RAVEN
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Emily Bronte's WUTHERING HEIGHTS
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American Civil War
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Christina Rossetti's "GOBLIN MARKET"
Thinking of God in a sensory way -
Robert Louis Stevenson's TREASURE |ISLAND
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Oscar Wilde's THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
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Turn of the Century
Marks the beginning of the Modernist period -
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Modern Period
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Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS
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World War I
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T.S. Eliot's "THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK"
modern anithero -
E.M. Forster's A PASSAGE TO INDIA
Spacially arranged. Antiheros lack heroism -
World War II
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George Orwell's ANIMAL FARM
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Beginning of Post-Modernism