Periods of British Literature
Postmodernist Period
Subtopic
Waiting for Godot
A Clockwork Orange
Lord of the Rings
Lord of the Flies
1984
sound
performance
concrete
modernists clinging to relevance
radio plays
absurdism
drawing room plays
kitchen sink realism
power of unconscious
utopias/dystopias
a little bit of everything
1939-today
Modern Period
James Joyce
T.S. Eliot
W.B. Yeets
Virginia Woolf
Style
disconnected images
free verse
mixed slang and elevated words
interior monologue
stream of consciousness
obsession with breaking tradition
"make it new"
isolation
1901-1939
Victorian Period
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Oscar Wilde
Charlotte Bronte
George Elliot
Robert Browning
Robert Louis Stevenson
Rudyard Kipling
Thomas Hardy
Charles Darwin
Charles Dickens
magazines
drama
comedies of manners
monologues
elegies
serialized
detective
political
misdirected letters
aristocratic villains
damsel in distress
romance
bigamy
love triangles
sex
rural vs urban
rich vs poor
1832-1901
Romantic Period
John Keats
Lord Byron
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Wordsworth
go figure he became an author
William Blake
Robert Burns
Jane Austen
Percy Shelley
Mary Shelley
poetry
gothic fiction
sentimental novels
nature>urbanization
gothic elements
horror
human knowledge
individual thoughts
1798-1832
Neoclassical Period
John Milton
John Bunyan
Samuel Johnson
Jonathan Swift
Daniel Dafoe
Alexander Pope
essays
novels
biographies
diaries
letters
satire
time of the enlightenment
John Locke <3
life, liberty, and property
harmony, stability, wisdom
FACTS and LOGIC
1660-1798
The Renaissance
Katherine Phillips
Robert Herrick
Andrew Marvell
Christopher Marlowe
John Donne
Ben Jonson
Shakespeare
dramas
histories
comedies
tragedies
poems
conceits
metaphysical
sonnets
honest to god thinking
less religion
individualism
1485-1660
Medieval Period
The Canterbury Tales
L'Morte de Arthur
Domesday Book
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
moral tales and frame stories
kennings
stock epithets
mystery, miracle, and morality plays
folk ballads
emphasis on Christianity
chivalry m'lady
strong emphasis on morality
1066-1485
Anglo-Saxon Period
Examples
Exter Book
The Venerable Bede
Beowulf
Styles
verse form included
four beat rhythm
repetition
caesura
alliteration
mostly poems
oral tradition
Content
honored the idea of a heroic warrior
compared/contrasted Christianity and Paganism
often had religious morals
belief in fate
449-1066
