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William Blake
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Ann Radcliff
<i>The Mysteries of Udolpho</i> popularizes the gothic novel.
Although not the first gothic novel ever published, it is one of the most influential. Gothic novels are known for their "spookiness." Jane Austen parodies the gothic novel in <i>Northanger Abbey</i> and has her main character read Radcliff's novel. -
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
</a>Wordsworth and Coleridge publish <i>Lyrical Ballads</i> Etext of Lyrical Ballads In stark contrast to the poets of the Enlightenment, or Neoclassical, period who believed that poetry should be an expression of reason and logic - the poet's intellect - Wordsworth, in the preface to the Lyrical Ballads, stated, "For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" emphasizing emotion and feeling. -
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Maria Edgeworth
<i>Castle Rockrent</i> the first historical novel in English - satirizes the absentee landowners in Ireland -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
<i>Faust</i> - Part 1
Heinrich Faust, a well-learned scholar, feels that, although he has extensively studied studied philosophy, medicine, law, and theology, there is something missing in his life. He turns to magic and makes a deal with the devil - Dr. Faust will be shown the secrets of the world and experience the most profound pleasure known to man in exchange for his soul. -
Jane Austen
<i>Sense and Sensibility</i>
Jane Austen writes with great economy and wit. The characters in her novels are as obsessed with marriage as everyone in Regency England was - and Austen makes some of the sharpest, funniest, and most sarcastic observations on human nature of the period, most of which still apply today. -
Lord Byron
Publishes the first two cantos of <i>Childe Harold's Pilgrimage</i> -
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Jane Austen
<i>Mansfield Park</i> -
Jane Austen
<i>Emma</i> -
Jane Austen
<i>Northanger Abbey</i> and <i>Persuasion</i> -
Mary Shelley
<i>Frankenstein</i> -
Sir Walter Scott
<i>Ivanhoe</i> -
James Fenimore Cooper
<i>The Last of the Mohicans</i> -
Noah Webster
<i>An American Dictionary of the English Language</i> is published. Noah Webster House and West Hartford Historical Society -
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Victor Hugo
<i>The Hunchback of Notre Dame</i>
