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Feb 28, 1564
Puritans
The Puritans The puritan era began in 1564-1560. The word ‘puritan’ itself came about in 1564 for the first time. The puritans wanted things to expand the group such as a skilled educated preaching ministry, a few ceremonies having to do with the bible, performances or practice biblically, and a legal government church controlled by the puritans of course. Thomas Cartwright is a leader for the Puritan program. The Old English Puritan themselves honored God above all. They were strong when it ca -
Enlightenment
The Enlightenment
The enlightenment was referred to the ‘age of reason.’ This took place during the 18th century in Western Europe, England, and the American colonies. The thinkers of the enlightenment were very intellectual and the thoughts were based on science, religion, and common sense. The enlightenment thinkers believed that science or evolution is what brought human along forgetting about religion and affecting the beliefs of others. Two intellectual thinkers of the enlightenment were Jo -
Gothic Fiction
Gothic Fiction
The term gothic was used during the medieval times. Gothic literature is semi related to the Victorian gothic era. Gothic characteristics included extreme scenery, omens, curses, visions, and suspense. The gothic fiction era is sometimes known as the gothic horror. The word gothic itself relates the Goths themselves or the gothic language. This time period came about during the medieval times. The combination Gothic romance represents a union of two of the major influences in the -
Romanticism
Romanticism
During the period of romanticism, it had very little to do with thing thought of as romantic. Love was in the art of the literature though. This took place in western cultures as well. The literary history of romanticism strongly took place in England and Germany and not necessarily in the countries of love itself. Historians from England and Germany had literature first starting off with Lyrical Ballads. Basically it was a movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that was -
Transcendentalism
Transcendentalism This was a philosophical movement of course which rooted in America and came to be a literary expression. During this time period, people believed that knowledge could be about not only just through sense but through intuition and contemplation of the internal spirit. This is how religions started form. The beliefs that came with these religions is had to do with an individual or a group itself. This era represented an updated way of understanding the truth and knowledge. The -
Realism
Realism Realism is defined as "the faithful representation of reality." It is a literary technique practiced by schools of writing. It is strictly used in speaking although writing is part of it. Realism is basically what it says. Real as in being real in literature through speaking and writing. There is the belief that the novel’s function is simply to report what happens, without comment or judgment. Realism coincided with Victorianism. Advances in the field of human psychology also fed into -
Naturalism
Naturalism
The naturalistic novel is a development out of realism, and it is, again, in France that its first practitioners are to be found, with Émile Zola leading. It is difficult to separate the two categories, but naturalism seems characterized not only by a pessimistic determinism but also by a more thoroughgoing attention to the physical and biological aspects of human existence. The naturalistic novel is a development out of realism, and it is, again, in France that its first practitioner -
Modern Age
The beginning of the modern era started approximately in the 16th century. Many major events caused the Western world to change around the turn of the 16th century, starting with the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, the fall of Muslim Spain and the discovery of the Americas in 1492, and Martin Luther's Protestant Reformation in 1517. In England the modern period is often dated to the start of the Tudor period with the victory of Henry VII over Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. Early -
Imagism
Imagism was a movement in early 20th-century Anglo-American poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. The Imagists rejected the sentiment and discursiveness typical of much Romantic and Victorian poetry. This was in contrast to their contemporaries, the Georgian poets, who were by and large content to work within that tradition. Group publication of work under the Imagist name appearing between 1914 and 1917 featured writing by many of the most significant figures in Mo -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a movement in American literature that took place in New York City during the 1920s and 30s. Writers included Countee Cullen, W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, and Jean Tommer. -
Regionalism
Regionalism refers to the varying styles seen in writers from the North, South, and West. Southern writers would include the likes of Faulkner and McCarthy. Northern would be Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe. Western would be Twain and Steinbeck. The writers mirror their regions. -
Contemporary
In the early 20th century, when the idea that God is dead was first introduced into the general culture, it caused infinite anguish and a great sense of loss. Writers and artists, and then people in general began to question the very meaning of life, and finally arrived at the conclusion that, if there is no God, life is inherently meaningless. Objective truth does not exist; all we have to rely on is our own perspective--our own truth--since that is all we can see.
