HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

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HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

• Compiled by Thomas Youman

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1. What is Literature?

• Literature refers to the practice and profession
  of writing. It comes from human interest in
  telling a story, in arranging words in artistic
  forms, in describing in words some aspects of
  human experiences.

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2. Why we read Literature?

• Pleasure
• Relaxation
• Knowledge

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3. Old English Period469 AD - 1066 AD

• Three conquests.
• The Song of Beowulf

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Middle English Literature

• Bible translations,
• Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales

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Renaissance Literature

• Vernacular Literature.
• William Caxton.
• Book of Common Prayer.

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Early Modern Period

• Elizabethan Era
• Jacobean Literature
• Caroline and Cromwellian Literature
• Restoration Literature
• Augustan Literature.

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Elizabethan Era

• William Shakespeare
• Hamlet,
• Romeo and Juliet,
• The Merchant of Venice
• Macbeth

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Jacobean Literature

• Post-Shakespeare.
• Dramatist Ben Jonson
• Theory of Humors
• Beaumont and Fletcher
• The Knight of the Burning Pestle

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Caroline and Cromwellian Literature

• Commonwealth.
• Samuel Pepys.
• Great Plague.
• Great Fire of London.

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Restoration Literature

• John Milton
• Paradise Lost
• The Country Wife
• Pilgrims Progress

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Augustan Literature

• Jonathan Swift
• A Tale of a Tub
• Gullivers Travels

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18th Century

• Age of Enlightment.
• Age of Sensibility.
• Horace Walpole The Castle of Otranto

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Romanticism

• Industrialism.
• William Blake Romantic Age
• Oscar Wilde
• Mary Shelley

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Victorian Literature

• Charles Dickens.
• Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlok Holmes

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English Literature since 1900

• Modernism Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, Virginia
  Woolf
• Post-Modern Literature Truman Capote
• Post World War II J.R.R. Tolkien