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Literary History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Beowulf | Old English |
| Shakespeare | The Renaissance, Hamlet, England |
| Cervantes | The Renaissance, Don Quixote, Spain |
| King James Translation of the Bible | The Renaissance, England |
| English Bible | The Renaissance, England |
| John Milton | Neoclassical, Paradise Lost, England |
| Daniel Defoe | Neoclassical, Robinson Crusoe, England |
| Johnathan Swift | Neoclassical, Gulliver's Travels, England |
| Samuel Richardson | Neoclassical, Pamela, England |
| Gray | Neoclassical, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", England |
| Ben Johnson | Neoclassical, First English Dictionary, England |
| Lawrence Stern | Neoclassical, Tristram Shandy, England |
| Ben Franklin | Revolutionary, Autobiography, America |
| Noah Webster | Revolutionary, Grammatical Institute of the English Language, America |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | American Renaissance, Nature |
| Charles Dickens | Early Victorian, Pickwick Papers, England |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Early Victorian, Twice Told Tales, America |
| Robert Browning, Lord Tennyson | Early Victorian, Dramatic Lyrics & Poems, England |
| Edgar Allen Poe | The Raven & Poems |
| Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte (Sisters) | Early Victorian, Wuthering Heights, England Early Victorian, Jane Eyre, England |
| Thackeray | Early Victorian, Vanity Fair, Britain |
| Charles Dickens | Early Victorian, David Copperfield, Britain |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Early Victorian, Sonnets from the Portuguese, England |
| Herman Melville | Moby Dick, American Renaissance |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Early Victorian, Uncle Tom's Cabin, America |
| Henry David Thoreau | Early Victorian, Walden |
| Walt Whitman | Realistic, Leaves of Grass, America |
| Charles Darwin | Early Victorian, Origin of Species, Britain |
| George Elliot | Early Victorian, Mill on the Floss, English |
| Mary Shelley | Romantic, Frankenstein, Britain |
| William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Romantic, Lyrical Ballads, England |
| Jane Austen | Romantic, Sense and Sensibility, Britain |
| Lord Byron | Romantic, Don Juan 1 and 2, England |
| Sir Walter Scott | Romantic, Ivanhoe, England |
| Karl Marx | Realistic, Das Kapital, German |
| Louisa May Alcott | Realistic, Little Women, American |
| George Elliot (girl) | Edwardian, Middlemarch, England |
| Thomas Hardy | Edwardian, Far from the Madding Crowd, Britain |
| Mark Twain | Realistic, Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Fin, America |
| Henry James | Realistic, Daisy Miller, America |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Edwardian, Treasure Island, Britain |
| Henrik Ibsen | Realistic, A Doll's House, Other (Norwegian) |
| Thomas Hardy | Victorian/Edwardian, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Britain |
| George Bernard Shaw | Edwardian, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Other (Irish) |
| Oscar Wilde | Edwardian, The Importance of Being Earnest, Other (Irish) |
| Stephen Crane | Realistic, The Red Badge of Courage, American |
| Theodore Dreiser | Naturalistic and Symbolistic, Sister Carrie, American |
| Jack London | Naturalistic and Symbolistic, Call of the Wild, American |
| Joseph Conrad | Modernism, Heart of Darkness, Britain |
| Edith Wharton | Modernism, The House of the Mirth, American |
| John Millington Synge | Modernism, Playboy of the Western World, Irish |
| D.H. Lawrence | Modernism, Sons and Lovers, England |
| Willa Cather | Modernism, O Pioneers!, American |
| T.S. Elliot | Modernism, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock & The Waste Land, American |
| Aldous Huxley | Modernism, Chrome Yellow, Britain |
| James Joyce | Modernism, Ulysses, Irish |
| E.M. Forster | Modernism, A Passage to India, England |
| Virginia Woolf | Modernism, Mrs. Dalloway, England |
| T.E. Lawrence | Modernism, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, England |
| Earnest Hemingway | Modernism, The Sun Also Rises, American |
| William Faulkner | Modernism, The Sound and the Fury, American |
| W.B. Yeats | Modernism, Collected Poems, Irish |
| John Steinbeck | Modernism, Of Mice and Men; The Red Pony, American |
| James Joyce | Modernism, Finnegan's Wake, Irish |
| Richard Wright | Modernism, Native Son, American |
| George Orwell | Modernism, Animal Farm, England |
| Arthur Miller | Modernism, Death of a Salesmen (play right), American |
| J.D. Salinger | Modernism, The Catcher in the Rye, American |
| Samuel Beckett | Modernism, Waiting for Godot, Irish |
| Vladmir Nabokov | Modernism, Lolita, England |
| Jack Kerouac | Modernism, On the Road, American |
| Chinua Achebe | Modernism, Things Fall Apart, Nigerian |
| Iris Murdock | Modernism, A Severed Head, Britain |
| Theodore Roethke | Modernism, The Far Field, American |
| Sylvia Plath | Postmodernist, Ariel, American |
| Maya Angelou | Postmodernist, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, American |
| Alice Walker | Postmodernist, The Color Purple, American |
| Raymond Carver | Postmodernist, Cathedral, American |
| Toni Morrison | Postmodernist, Beloved, American |
| Amy Tan | Postmodernist, The Joy Luck Club, Chinese American |
| Thomas Pynchon | Postmodernist, Vineland, American |
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