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Middle English Period
It is a period of transition in language, culture and lifestyle in England. This period is home to the likes of Chaucer, Thomas Malory, and Robert Henryson. Notable works include "Piers Plowman" and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
Major events
The industrial revolution (1750)
The American revolution (1776)
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Period: 1500 to
The Renaissance
This period is often subdivided into four parts, including the Elizabethan Age (1558–1603), the Jacobean Age (1603–1625), the Caroline Age (1625–1649), and the Commonwealth Period (1649–1660).
Main Features
Classical period reborn
Aritotles unities
Classic myth and heroes
Finding place for humans in a changing world
Seminal texts
Marlowe, Middleton and Jonson late 1500 Shakespeare's play 1590-1616
Metaphysical poetry- Donne Herbert
Marvell early1600s
Don Quixote 1605 -
Period: to
The Neoclassical Period
The Neoclassical period is also subdivided into ages, including The Restoration (1660–1700), The Augustan Age (1700–1745), and The Age of Sensibility (1745–1785). The Restoration period sees some response to the puritanical age, especially in the theater.
Main Features
Science can help understand nature
Age of Enlightenment
Resration in Englang
order, Accuracy and structure
Religious solace
Exploration -
Period: to
The Romantic Period
This era includes the works of such juggernauts as Wordsworth, Coleridge, William Blake, Lord Byron, John Keats, Charles Lamb, Mary Wollstonecraft, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey, Jane Austen, and Mary Shelley.
Main Features
Nature mysterious
Mortality an mutability
Imagination
SEMINAL TEXTS
Lyrical ballads Coleridge and wordswoth 1798
The sorrows of young werther 1774 -
Period: to
The Victorian Period
It was a time of great social, religious, intellectual, and economic issues, heralded by the passage of the Reform Bill, which expanded voting rights. The period has often been divided into “Early” (1832–1848), “Mid” (1848–1870) and “Late” (1870–1901) periods or into two phases, that of the Pre-Raphaelites (1848–1860) and that of Aestheticism and Decadence (1880–1901) -
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Modernism
Main features
Practical experimentation
Empowering humans
New ways of reaching the same end
introspection
Nihilism
Rejection of past
SEMINAL WRITERS
T.S eliot
James Joyce
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Period: to
The Edwardian Period
This period is named for King Edward VII and covers the period between Victoria’s death and the outbreak of World War I.
the era includes incredible classic novelists such as Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford.
notable poets such as Alfred Noyes and William Butler Yeats; and dramatists such as James Barrie, George Bernard Shaw, and John Galsworthy. -
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post- Modernismo
Main Features
Disillusionment narrative
No single truth
Parody pastiche
The world does not offer anwers
Meta fiftional wriying
Boundaries are crossed -
The contemporar period
present