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Literary Period
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| beowulf | Old English |
| Chaucer | Middle English |
| Shakespeare | The Renaissance, England |
| Cervantes | The Renaissance, Spanish |
| King James Translation of the Bible | The Renaissance, English |
| English Bible | The Renaissance, England |
| John Milton | Neoclassical, England |
| Daniel Defoe | Neoclassical, England |
| Johnathan Swift | Neoclassical, England |
| Samuel Richardson | Neoclassical, England |
| Gray | Neoclassical, England |
| Ben Johnson | Neoclassical, England |
| Lawrence Stern | Neoclassical, England |
| Revolutionary and Early National Period | Revolutionary, America |
| Ben Franklin | Revolutionary, America |
| Noah Webster | Revolutionary, America |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | American Renaissance, America, New English Writers |
| Charles Dickens | Early Victorian, England |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | American Renaissance, America, New England Writers |
| Robert Browning, Lord Tennyson | Early Victorian, England |
| Edgar Allan Poe | American Renaissance, America, New England Writers |
| Emily Bronte Charlotte Bronte (Sisters) | Early Victorian, England |
| Thackeray | Early Victorian, Britain |
| Charles Dickens | Early Victorian, Britain |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Early Victorian, England |
| Herman Melville | American Renaissance, American, New England Writers |
| Henry David Thoreau | American Renaissance, American, New England Writers |
| Walt Whitman | American Renaissance, American |
| Charles Darwin | Early Victorian, Britain |
| George Eliot(Mary Ann Evens) | Early Victorian, English |
| Mary Shelley | Romantic, Britain Childhood friends |
| William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Romantic, England Childhood friends |
| Jane Austen | Romantic, Britain Childhood friends |
| Lord Byron | Romantic, England Childhood friends |
| Sir Walter Scott | Romantic, England |
| John Keats | Romantic, England Childhood friends |
| Percy Shelley | Romantic, England Childhood friends |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Realistic, America |
| Karl Marx | Realistic, German |
| Louisa May Alcott | Realistic, American |
| George Eliot | Realistic, England |
| Thomas Hardy | Realistic, Britain |
| Mark Twain | Realistic, American |
| Henry James | Realistic, American |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Realistic, Britain |
| Henrik Ibsen | Realistic, other(Norwegian) |
| Thomas Hardy | Realistic, Britain |
| George Bernard Shaw | Realistic, other(Irish) |
| Oscar Wilde | Realistic, other(Irish) |
| Stephen Crane | Realistic, American |
| Theodore Dreiser | Naturalistic and Symbolistic, American |
| Jack London | Naturalistic and Symbolistic, American |
| Joseph Conrad | Modernism, Britain |
| Edith Wharton | Modernism, America |
| John Millington Synge | Modernism, Irish |
| D.H. Lawrence | Modernism, England |
| Willa Cather | Modernism, American |
| T.S. Eliot | Modernism, America |
| Aldous Huxley | Modernism, Britain |
| James Joyce | Modernism, Irish |
| E.M. Forster | Modernism, England |
| Virginia Woolf | Modernism, England |
| T.E. Lawrence | Modernism, England |
| Earnest Hemingway | Modernism, American |
| William Faulkner | Modernism, American |
| W.B. Yeats | Modernism, Irish |
| John Steinbeck | Modernism, American |
| James Joyce | Modernism, Irish |
| Richard Wright | Modernism, American |
| George Orwell | Modernism, England |
| Arthur Miller | Modernism, American |
| J.D. Salinger | Modernism, American |
| Samuel Beckett | Modernism, Irish |
| Vladmir Nabokov | Modernism, England |
| Jack Kerouac | Modernism, American |
| Chinua Achebe | Modernism, Nigerian |
| Iris Murdock | Modernism, Britain |
| Theodore Roethke | Modernism, American |
| Sylvia Plath | Postmodernist, American |
| Maya Angelou | Postmodernist, American |
| Alice Walker | Postmodernist, American |
| Raymond Carver | Postmodernist, American |
| Toni Morrison | Postmodernist, American |
| Amy Tan | Postmodernist, Chinese-American |
| Thomas Pynchon | Postmodernist, American |
| Old English 450-1066 | Oral tradition,narrative poems, religious themes |
| Middle English 1066-1500 | Tales of knights and lords, religious themes |
| English Renaissance 1550-1660 | Lyric poetry, drama, social commentary |
| English Neoclassical 1660-1798 | A return to the ideals of ancient Rome and Greece |
| American colonial 1620-1750 | Religious, historical writing, letters, personal narrative |
| American Revolutionary 1750-1800 | Political style with flowery language, travel writing |
| English Romanticism 1800-1860 | Nature writing and freedom of imagination |
| American Renaissance 1830-1860 | Gothic horror, idealism, and spiritual uplift |
| English Victorian 1830-1870 | issues related to skepticism, religion, mystery, and supernatural concerns |
| American Realism 1855-1900 | Social stories without the obvious presence of the author |
| Modernism 1900-1950 | Experimental, unique voices, youth culture and progress |
| Postmodernism 1950-present | Anti-heroes, media culture, humorous irony, social conflict |
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