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Term | Definition |
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Chaucer | Middle English, |
Shakespere | The Renaissance, England |
Cervantes | The Renaissance, Spain |
King James Translation of the Bible | The Renaissance |
English Bible | The Renaissance, England |
John Milton | Neoclassical, England |
Daniel Defoe | Neoclassical, England |
Jonathan Swift | Neoclassical, England |
Samuel Richardson | Neoclassical, England |
Gray | Neoclassical, England |
Ben Johnson | Neoclassical, Enland |
Lawrence Stern | Neoclassical, England |
Ben Franklin | Neoclassical, America |
Noah Webster | Neoclassical, America |
Ralph Emerson | Early Victorian, America |
Charles Dickens | Early Victorian, England |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | Early Victorian, America |
Robert Browning, Lord Tennyson | Early Victorian, England |
Edgar Allen Poe | Early Victorian, America |
Emily Bronte & Charlotte Bronte (sisters) | Early Victorian, England |
Thackeray | Early Victorian, Britian |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Early Victorian, England |
Herman Melville | Early Victorian, America |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | Early Victorian, America |
Henry David Thoreau | Early Victorian, America |
Charles Darwin | Early Victorian, Britian |
George Elliot | Early Victorian, English |
Mary Shelley | Romantic, Britian |
William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Romantic, England |
Jane Austen | Romantic, Britian |
Lord Byron | Romantic, England |
Sir Walter Scott | Romantic, England |
Karl Marx | Realistic, Germany |
Louisa May Alcott | Realistic, America |
George Elliot (girl) | Realistic, England |
Thomas Hardy | Realistic, Britian |
Mark Twain | Realistic, America |
Henry James | Realistic, America |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Realistic, Britian |
Henrik Ibsen | Realistic, Norwegian |
George Bernard Shaw | Realistic, Irish |
Oscar Wilde | Realistic, Irish |
Stephen Crane | Realistic, America |
Theodore Drieser | Naturalistic & Symbolic, America |
Jack London | Naturalistic & Symbolic, America |
Joseph Conrad | Modernism, Britian |
Edith Wharton | Modernism, America |
John Millington Synge | Modernism, Irish |
D.H. Lawrence | Modernism, England |
Willa Cather | Modernism, America |
T.S. Eliot | Modernism, America |
Aldous Huxley | Modernism, Britian |
James Joyce | Modernism, Irish |
E.M. Foster | Modernism, England |
Virginia Woolf | Modernism, England |
T.E. Lawrence | Modernism, England |
Earnest Hemingway | Modernism, America |
William Faulkner | Modernism, America |
W.B. Yeats | Modernism, Irish |
John Steinback | Modernism, America |
James Joyce | Modernism, Irish |
Richard Wright | Modernism, America |
George Orwell | Modernism, England |
Arthur Miller | Modernism, American |
J.D. Salinger | Modernism, America |
Samuel Beckett | Modernism, Irish |
Vladmir Nabokov | Modernism, England |
Jack Kerouac | Modernism, America |
Chinua Achebe | Modernism, Nigeria |
Iris Murdock | Modernism, Britian |
Theodore Roethke | Modernism, America |
Sylvia Plath | Postmodernism, America |
Maya Angelou | Postmodernism, America |
Alice Walker | Postmodernism, America |
Raymond Carver | Postmodernism, America |
Toni Morrison | Postmodernism, America |
Amy Tan | Postmodernism, America |
Thomas Pynchon | Postmodernism, America |