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Literary History
Sydney Huynh
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Beowulf | Old English |
| Chauncer | Middle 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, American |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | American Renaissance, Nature, American |
| Charles Dickens | Early Victorian, Pickwick Papers, England |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | New England Writers, Twice Told Tales & Scarlet Latter, America |
| Robert Browning | Early Victorian, Dramatic Lyrics, England |
| Lord Tennyson | Early Victorian, Poems, England |
| Edgar Allen Poe | New England Writers, The Raven & Poems, American |
| Emily Bronte | Early Victorian, Wuthering Heights, England |
| Charlotte Bronte | 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 Melvile | New England Writers, Moby Dick, American |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | American Renaissance, Uncle Tom's Cabin, American |
| Henry David Thoreau | New England Writers, Walden, American |
| Walt Whitman | American Renaissance, Leaves of Grass, American |
| Charles Darwin | Early Victorian, Origin of Species,Britain |
| George Eliot | 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 | Realistic, Far from the Madding Crowd, Britain |
| Mark Twain | Realistic, Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Fin, American |
| Henry James | Realistic, Daisy Miller, American |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Realistic, Treasure Island, Britain |
| Henrik Ibsen | Realistic, A Doll's House, Other(Norwegian) |
| Thomas Hardy | Realistic, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Britain |
| George Bernard Shaw | Realistic, Mrs. Warren's Profession, British |
| Oscar Wilde | Realistic, The Importance of Being Earnest, British |
| 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. Eliot | 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 Second 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, African American |
| George Orwell | Modernism, Animal Farm, England |
| Arthur Miller | Modernism, Death of a Salesman(playwrite), 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, African American |
| Alice Walker | Postmodernist, The Color Purple, African 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 |
| Percy Shelley | Romantic, England |
| John Keats | Romantic, England |
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