Eras of Brit Lit

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Heritage Sectional Exam 6

由James Bell

Austria

由Субботина Виктория Юрьевна

THE UK

由alessandra notarfrancesco

Hofstede Assignment - Raffay & Jawad

由JR - 10GR - Rick Hansen SS (2542)

Periods of British Literature

Postmodernist Period

Subtopic

Waiting for Godot

A Clockwork Orange

Lord of the Rings

Lord of the Flies

1984

sound

performance

concrete

modernists clinging to relevance

radio plays

absurdism

drawing room plays

kitchen sink realism

power of unconscious

utopias/dystopias

a little bit of everything

1939-today

Modern Period

James Joyce

T.S. Eliot

W.B. Yeets

Virginia Woolf

Style

disconnected images

free verse

mixed slang and elevated words

interior monologue

stream of consciousness

obsession with breaking tradition

"make it new"

isolation

1901-1939

Victorian Period

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Oscar Wilde

Charlotte Bronte

George Elliot

Robert Browning

Robert Louis Stevenson

Rudyard Kipling

Thomas Hardy

Charles Darwin

Charles Dickens

magazines

drama

comedies of manners

monologues

elegies

serialized

detective

political

misdirected letters

aristocratic villains

damsel in distress

romance

bigamy

love triangles

sex

rural vs urban

rich vs poor

1832-1901

Romantic Period

John Keats

Lord Byron

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Wordsworth

go figure he became an author

William Blake

Robert Burns

Jane Austen

Percy Shelley

Mary Shelley

poetry

gothic fiction

sentimental novels

nature>urbanization

gothic elements

horror

human knowledge

individual thoughts

1798-1832

Neoclassical Period

John Milton

John Bunyan

Samuel Johnson

Jonathan Swift

Daniel Dafoe

Alexander Pope

essays

novels

biographies

diaries

letters

satire

time of the enlightenment

John Locke <3

life, liberty, and property

harmony, stability, wisdom

FACTS and LOGIC

1660-1798

The Renaissance

Katherine Phillips

Robert Herrick

Andrew Marvell

Christopher Marlowe

John Donne

Ben Jonson

Shakespeare

dramas

histories

comedies

tragedies

poems

conceits

metaphysical

sonnets

honest to god thinking

less religion

individualism

1485-1660

Medieval Period

The Canterbury Tales

L'Morte de Arthur

Domesday Book

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

moral tales and frame stories

kennings

stock epithets

mystery, miracle, and morality plays

folk ballads

emphasis on Christianity

chivalry m'lady

strong emphasis on morality

1066-1485

Anglo-Saxon Period

Examples

Exter Book

The Venerable Bede

Beowulf

Styles

verse form included

four beat rhythm

repetition

caesura

alliteration

mostly poems

oral tradition

Content

honored the idea of a heroic warrior

compared/contrasted Christianity and Paganism

often had religious morals

belief in fate

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