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Literary History
Aaron Pounds
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Martin Luther | German,The Renaissance,1517 |
| Machiavelli | Italian,The Renaissance,1532 |
| Cervantes | Spain,The Renaissance,1605 |
| Charles II | English,Neoclassical Period,1660 |
| John Milton | English,Neoclassical Period,1667 |
| Sir Isaac Newton | English,Neoclassical Period,1687 |
| Salem Witchcraft Executions | English,Neoclassical Period,1692 |
| Daniel Defoe | British,Neoclassical Period,1719 |
| Johnothan Swift | British/Irish,Neoclassical Period,1726 |
| Samuel Richardson | English,Neoclassical,1726 |
| Henry Fielding | English,Neoclassical Period,1749 |
| Ben Johnson | English,Neoclassical,1755 |
| Lawrence Stern | English,Neoclassical,1760 |
| Oliver Goldsmith | Canadian,Neoclassical,1770 |
| Ben Franklin | American,Neoclassical,1771 |
| Revelotionary War | American,Neoclassical,1775 |
| Declaration of Independence | American,Neoclassical,1776 |
| Noah Webster | American,Neoclassical,1783 |
| William Wordsworth | English,Romantic,1798 |
| Jane Austen | English,Romantic,1811 |
| Mary Shelley | English,Romantic,1817 |
| Lord Byron | English,Romantic,1819 |
| The Missouri Compromise | English,Romantic Period,1820 |
| Sir Walter Scott | English,Romantic,1820 |
| Edgar Allen Poe | English,Romantic,1830 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | American,Early Victorian Age,1836 |
| Charles Dickens | British,Early Victorian Age,1836 |
| Nathaniel Hawthorn | American,Early Victorian Age,1837 |
| Robert Browning | American,Early Victorian Age,1842 |
| Emily Bronte | English,Early Victorian Age,1847 |
| Thackeray | English,Early Victorian Age,1847-1848 |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | American,Early Victorian Age,1850 |
| Herman Melville | American,Early Victorian Age,1851 |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | American,Early Victorian Age,1852 |
| Henry David Thoreau | American,Early Victorian Age,1854 |
| Walt Whitman | English,Early Victorian Age,1855 |
| Charles Darwin | American,Early Victorian Age,1859 |
| George Eliot | American,Early Victorian Age,1860 |
| American Civil War | American,Early Victorian Age,1860-1865 |
| Karl Marx | Realistic Period,Early Victorian Age,1867 |
| Louisa May Alcott | American,Realistic Period,1868 |
| Thomas Hardy | English,Realistic Period,1874 |
| Mark Twain | American/Scandavian,Realistic Period,1876 |
| Henry James | English,Realistic Period,1879 |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | English,Realistic Period,1883 |
| George Bernard Shaw | English,Realistic Period,1893 |
| Oscar Wilde | English,Realistic Period,1895 |
| Stephen Crane | English/American,Realistic Period,1895 |
| Joseph Conrad | Russian,English,Edwardian Period,1903 |
| Edith Wharton | American,Edwardian Period,1905 |
| John Millington Synge | Irish,Edwardian Period,1907 |
| D.H Lawrence | English,Edwardian Period,1913 |
| Theodore Dreiser | American,Naturalistic/Symbolistic Period,1900 |
| T.S Eliot | American,1st World War,1917 |
| Aldous Huxley | English,1st World War,1921 |
| James Joyce | Irish,1st World War,1922 |
| E.M Forster | English,1st World War,1924 |
| Virgina Woolf | English,1st World War,1925 |
| T.E Lawrence | American,1st World War,1926 |
| William Faulkner | American,1st World War,1929 |
| W.B Yeats | Irish,1st World War,1933 |
| John Steinbeck | American,1st World War,1937 |
| Richard Wright | African American,2nd World War,1940 |
| George Orwell | English,2nd World War,1946 |
| Arthur Miller | American,2nd World War,1949 |
| J.D Salinger | American,2nd World War,1951 |
| Samuel Beckett | Irish,2nd World War,1952 |
| Vladmir Nabokov | Russian,2nd World War,1955 |
| Jack Kerouac | American,2nd World War,1957 |
| Chinua Achebe | Nigerian,2nd World War,1958 |
| Iris Murdock | English,2nd World War,1961 |
| Theodore Roethke | American,2nd World War,1964 |
| Sylvia Plath | American,Postmodernist Period,1966 |
| Maya Angelou | American,Postmodernist Period,1969 |
| Alice Walker | American,Postmodernist Period,1983 |
| Raymond Carver | American,Postmodernist Period,1985 |
| Toni Morrison | American,Postmodernist Period,1987 |
| Amy Tan | American,Postmodernist Period,1989 |
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