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Literary History
Tyra Steele
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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