Timeline English literature

  • 1066

    MEDIEVAL ERA

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  • 1500

    RENAISSANCE

    where there was a change in the way of thinking comedy, drama and skepticism played an important role in the works that were developed in this period
  • NEOCLASICAL PERIOD

    that it is characterized by the order and structuring of things
  • ROMANTIC PERIOD

    Shift from logical reason and science to a belief in the senses, feelings, imagination was valued above all. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a famous work of this period.
  • VICTORIAN PERIOD

    , characterized by the industrial revolution, the proliferation of women writers and novels; Charles Dickens is a well-known author of this period.
  • 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, Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, and Henry James
  • MODERN PERIOD

    Common features include bold experimentation with subject matter, style, and form, encompassing narrative, verse, and drama. Some of the most notable writers of this period include the novelists James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence.
  • GEORGIAN PERIOD

    The Georgian period usually refers to the reign of George V (1910–1936) but sometimes also includes the reigns of the four successive Georges from 1714–1830. Poets, such as Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield, W.H. Davies, and Rupert Brooke.
  • POST MODERN PERIOD

    Many believe it is a direct response to modernism. Some say the period ended about 1990, but it is likely too soon to declare this period closed. Taking into account the concern about the end of the web conference I think that there is an important transformation of literature since with the digital era the writings are made from a more liberated perspective and take very much into account the digital.