Literature

By Sophie Pereira
  • 2000 BCE

    Start of Classical Age

  • 550 BCE

    Aesop's Fables

    • former Greek slaves
    • best known collection of morality tales
    • essentially allegorical myths
  • 500

    End of Classical Age

  • 500

    Start of Medieval Period

  • 1500

    End of the Medieval Period

  • 1500

    Start of Renaissance

  • End of Renaissance

  • Start of Enlightenment

  • Start of Romantic Period

  • End of Enlightenment

  • Start of Realism

  • Start of Transcendental Movement

  • Start of Victorian Period

  • Start of Existentialism

  • End of Transcendental Movement

  • Leo Tolstoy: "War and Peace"

    • chronicling the French invasion of Russia in 1812, the book looks at the psychological effects of the war and the philosophical discussions that it created

  • Horatio Alger: "Ragged Dick"

  • Louisa May Alcott: "Little Women"

  • End of Romantic Period

  • End of Victorian Period

  • Start of the Bloomsbury Group

  • Start of Modernism

  • Franza Kafka: "The Metamorphosis"

  • End of Realism

  • Virginia Woolf: "To the Lighthouse"

  • Aldous Huxley: "Brave New World"

    • looked unfavorably on the loss of an individual’s identity through futuristic technological advancements. Huxley’s own fears of commerciality and the emerging youth culture are fully on display in this novel

  • George Orwell: "1984"

  • Start of the Beat Generation

  • Arthur Miller: "All My Sons"

  • Arthur Miller: "The Crucible"

  • Sylvia Plath: "The Bell Jar"

  • Anthony Burgess: "A Clockwork Orange"

  • End of the Bloomsbury Group

  • End of Modernism

  • End of the Beat Generation

  • Start of Post-Modernism

  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez: "One Hundred Years of Solitude"

  • Stephen King: "Carrie"

  • Period: to

    Ted Hughes was Poet Laureate

  • Margaret Atwood: "The Handmaid's Tale"

  • Salman Rushdie: "The Satanic Verses"

    • section in Satanic Verses that was incredibly offensive to Muslims, especially regarding the prophet Mohammed, and this may be interpreted as one of the reasons there was such hostility to Muslims after this

  • Toni Morrison's "Beloved" wins Pulitzer Prize

    • giving voice to the African-American experience and observing and recording the collective memory of the population

  • Paul Auster: "Mr Vertigo"

  • Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things" wins Man Booker Prize

  • Period: to

    Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate

  • Ian McEwan: "Atonement"

    • British metafiction novel concerning understanding and need for personal atonement

  • Carol Ann Duffy Poet Laureate

  • Svetlana Alexievich wins Literature Nobel Prize

  • Kazuo Ishiguro wins Literature Nobel Prize

  • Paul Auster: "4,3,2,1"

    • nominated for the Booker prize

  • End of Existentialism

  • End of Post-Modernism