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British and American Literature - Contents

The document provides an overview of the major periods and authors in British and American literature. For British literature, it outlines 7 periods from the Renaissance through Postmodern era, noting key authors such as Shakespeare, Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Shaw, Woolf, and Golding. For American literature, it identifies 3 periods from the Romantic through Modern eras, highlighting authors like Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, James, O'Neill, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner.

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British and American Literature - Contents

The document provides an overview of the major periods and authors in British and American literature. For British literature, it outlines 7 periods from the Renaissance through Postmodern era, noting key authors such as Shakespeare, Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Shaw, Woolf, and Golding. For American literature, it identifies 3 periods from the Romantic through Modern eras, highlighting authors like Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, James, O'Neill, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner.

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BRITISH LITERATURE

I. English Renaissance (late 15th early 17th century)


Elizabethan era (reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1558 1603)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

II. Neoclassical Period or the Enlightenment (1660 1785)


Daniel Defoe (1660-1731): Robinson Crusoe
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745): Gullivers Travels

III. Romantic Period (late 18th century, 1770 1830) - England


S. T. Coleridge (1772-1834): The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Jane Austen (1775-1817): Pride and Prejudice
John Keats (1795-1821)

IV. Victorian Period (1837 1901, reign of Queen Victoria)


Charles Dickens (1812-1870): Great Expectations, David Copperfield
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898): Alices Adventures in Wonderland
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): Tess of the DUrbervilles

V. Edwardian Period (1901 1914)


G. B. Shaw (1856-1950): Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion

VI. Modern Period (1914, the beginning of the WWI - 1945)


Joseph Conrad (1857-1924): Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941): Mrs. Dalloway
James Joyce (1882-1941): Ulysses
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965): Waste Land

VII. Postmodern Period (after the WWII)


William Golding: Lord of the Flies

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AMERICAN LITERATURE

I. Romantic Period (early 19th century 1860)


Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864): The Scarlet Letter
Herman Melville (1819-1891): Moby Dick
Walt Whitman (1819-1892): Leaves of Grass (romantic realism)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

II. Realistic Period (following the Civil War, 1860 1900)


Mark Twain (1835-1910): The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Henry James (1843-1916): The Portrait of a Lady

III. Modern Period (1915 1945)


Eugene ONeill (1888-1953): Mourning Becomes Electra
F. S. Fitzgerald (1896-1940): The Great Gatsby
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961): Short Stories
William Faulkner (1897-1962): Absalom! Absalom!

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