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Literary History
Tyra Steele
Term | Definition |
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Old English | 428-110- oral tradition, narrative poems, religious themes |
Middle English | 1350-1500- tales of knights and lords, religious themes |
English Renaissance | 1550-1660- lyric poetry, drama, social commentary |
Colonial Period(America) | 1650-1750- religious, historical writing, letters, personal narratives |
Neoclassical Period | 1660-1798- a return to the ideals of ancient Rome and Greece; fixed form poetry, plays, drations |
Romantic Period | 1798-1832- nature writing and freedom of imagination |
(Early Victorian Age(English and American Literature)- American Renaissance | 1840-1860- gothic horror, idealism, and spiritual uplift |
Realistic Period | 1865-1914- social stories without the presence of the author |
Modernism | 1900-1950- experimental, unique voices, youth culture, and progress |
Postmodernism | 1965-?- anti-heroes, media culture, humorous irony, social conflict |
Beowulf | Old English |
Chaucer | Middle English |
Shakespeare | Renaissance, English |
Cervantes | Renaissance, Spanish |
*King James Translation of the Bible | Renaissance, English |
*English Bible | Renaissance, English |
John Milton | Neoclassical, English |
Daniel Defoe | Neoclassical, English |
Jonathan Swift | Neoclassical, English |
Samuel Richardson | Neoclassical, English |
*Gray | Neoclassical, English |
Ben Johnson | NC, English |
Lawrence Stern | NC, English |
Ben Franklin | Revolutionary, American |
Noah Webster | Revolutionary, American |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | American Renaissance, American |
Charles Dickens | American Renaissance, English |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | American Renaissance, American |
Robert Browning | American Renaissance, English |
Lord Tennyson | American Renaissance, English |
Edgar Allen Poe | AR, American |
Emily & Charlotte Bronte | AR, English |
Thackeray | AR, Enlgish |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning | AR, English |
Herman Melville | AR, American |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | AR, American |
Henry David Thoreau | AR, American |
Charles Darwin | AR, English |
George Eliot | AR, English |
Mary Shelley | Romantic, English |
William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Romantic, English |
Jane Austen | Romantic, English |
Lord Byron | Romantic, English |
Sir Walter Scott | Romantic, English |
Walt Whitman | Realism, American |
Karl Marx | Realistic, German |
Mark Twain | Realistic, American |
Henry James | Realistic, American |
Henrik Ibsen | Realistic, Norwegian |
Louisa May Alcott | Edwardian, American |
Thomas Hardy | Edwardian, English |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Edwardian, English |
George Bernard Shaw | Realistic, Irish |
Oscar Wilde | Realistic, Irish |
Stephen Crane | Realistic, American |
Theodore Dreiser | Naturalistic & Symbolistic, American |
Jack London | Naturalistic & Symbolistic, American |
Joseph Conrad | Modernism, English |
Edith Wharton | Modernism, American |
John Millington Synge | Modernism, Irish |
D.H. Lawrence | Modernism, English |
Willa Cather | Modernism, American |
T.S. Eliot | Modernism, American |
Aldous Huxley | Modernism, English |
James Joyce | Modernism, Irish |
E.M Forster | Modernism, English |
Virginia Woolf | Modernism, English |
T.E Lawrence | Modernism, English |
Earnest Hemingway | Modernism, American |
William Faulkner | Modernism, American |
W.B. Yeats | Modernism, Irish |
John Steinbeck | Modernism, American |
Richard Wright | Modernism, American |
George Orwell | Modernism, English |
Arthur Miller | Modernism, American |
J.D. Salinger | Modernism, American |
Samuel Beckett | Modernism, Irish |
Vladimir Nabokov | Modernism, Russian |
Jack Kerouac | Modernism, American |
Chinua Achebe | Modernism, Nigerian |
Iris Murdock | Modernism, English |
Theodore Roethke | Modernism, American |
Sylvia Plath | Postmodernism, American |
Maya Angelou | Postmodernism, American |
Alice Walker | Postmodernism American |
Raymond Carver | Postmodernism, American |
Toni Morrison | Postmodernism, American |
Amy Tan | Postmodernism, Chinese American |
Thoman Pynchon | Postmodernism, American |