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Was characterized by epic and heroic stories
Works: Beowulf -
It consisted primarily of religious writings
Authors and works: Geoffrey Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales)
Godofredo de Monmouth (Regum Britanniae) -
Subjects: The reign of Elizabeth I and the Renaissance optimism
Authors: Edmund Spencer and William Shakespeare
Works: The Faerie Queene, Hamlet -
Topics: social abuse and rivarlry, The King James version of the Bibile
Authors: Thomas Middelton, Francis Bacon, George Champan,
Works: The changeling, Caesar's Fall -
Style: refinement and elegance
Authors: William Davenant, Thomas Carew, Robert Herrick
Works: Enchanted Island, Hespérides -
.Subjects: religion, philosphy, reason, wit, refinement and skepticism; French Literature
Jhon Milton (Paradise Lost); John Bunyan (The Piligrim´s Progress); Thomas Otway (The soldier´s Fortune) -
It's characterized buy it´s strong use of feeling, it's personal nature, use of symbolism and explore of the super natural
Mary Shelley (Frankenstein); Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice) -
Topics: issues and problems of the day, like social, religious, economic and intellectual issues; problems related to Industrial Revolution; the feminist movement; the impact of Charles Darwin´s theory about evolution and the class tensions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson (Ulysses); Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre); Oscar Wilde (The picture of Dorian Grey) -
Named after the king Edward VII. This literature acttacks the selfishness and the upperclass. It´s principal author is H.G Wells (The Time Machine) -
Influenced by the WWI and WWII; it´s charcterized by the advances in technology; medicine; science and the women freedom
Authors and their work: Virgina Woolf (A Room of One's Own); James Barrie (Peter Pan and Wendy); George Shaw (Saint Joan) -
Characterized by the advance and expanssion of digitilization and the global information control
Authors and their works: J.K Rowling (Harry Potter); Ian McEwan (Atonement); Graham Swift (The Light of Day)