Dates and Descritions
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| The Classical Period | show 🗑
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| The Medieval Period | show 🗑
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| show | 428 - 1100
c. 700 - Beowulf (no author)
c. 1307-1321 - Dante's Divina Commedia
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| The Middle English Period | show 🗑
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| The Renaissance (in England, Colonial America) | show 🗑
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| show | 1660 - 1798. reverence for logic and disdain for superstition. House of restoration Period, The Augustan Age, The Age of Johnson, and the Colonial period in America
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| show | 1667- John Milton, Paradise Lost
1726- Johnathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels- SATIRE
1755- Ben Johnson Dictionary
1783-85- Noah Webster, Grammatical Institute of the English Language
LITERACY EMERGING
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| Romantic Period | show 🗑
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| show | 1832-1870. Sentimental novel, intellectual movements, Naturalist writers, and Aestheticism, and "The Decadence"
1847- Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights; Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
(Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet B. Stowe)
1855- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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| show | 1865-1914. Reaction to victorian and romantic periods. uses reality and logic. right after civil war. REAL
1867- Karl Marx, Das Kapital (communist)
1876- Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer
1884- Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
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| show | 1900- theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
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| show | 1901-1910. Reflect on social conditions. poor vs wealthy. attacked social injustice
1903- Jack London, Call of the Wild
1913- Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
Nature vs man
Bernard Shaw
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| show | 1914-1918.
1917-TS Eliot, "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock"-epic poem
Earnest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises. 1st account of the war via reporter, not solider
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| show | 1939-1945.
1946- George Orwell, Animal Farm
1958- Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart *gives insight on African and British cultures mixed*
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| Postmodernistic Period | show 🗑
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