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HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. Compiled by: Thomas Youman. 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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HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

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  1. HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE Compiled by: Thomas Youman

  2. 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.

  3. 2. Why we read Literature? • Pleasure • Relaxation • Knowledge

  4. 3. Old English Period469 AD - 1066 AD • Three conquests. • The Song of Beowulf:

  5. Middle English Literature • Bible translations, • Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

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

  7. Early Modern Period • Elizabethan Era • Jacobean Literature • Caroline and Cromwellian Literature • Restoration Literature • Augustan Literature.

  8. Elizabethan Era • William Shakespeare • Hamlet, • Romeo and Juliet, • The Merchant of Venice • Macbeth

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

  10. Caroline and Cromwellian Literature • Commonwealth. • Samuel Pepys. • Great Plague. • Great Fire of London.

  11. Restoration Literature • John Milton: • Paradise Lost • The Country Wife • Pilgrim’s Progress

  12. Augustan Literature • Jonathan Swift: • A Tale of a Tub • Gulliver’s Travels

  13. 18th Century • Age of Enlightment. • Age of Sensibility. • Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto

  14. Romanticism • Industrialism. • William Blake: Romantic Age • Oscar Wilde • Mary Shelley:

  15. Victorian Literature • Charles Dickens. • Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlok Holmes

  16. English Literature since 1900 • Modernism: Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf • Post-Modern Literature: Truman Capote • Post World War II: J.R.R. Tolkien

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