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CONTENT:
A Short History of English Literature
CONTENT
00:10 Chapter 0. Introduction: Classical Period (1200 B.C.-440 A.D.: Homeric Period)
00:20 Greek Period
00:30 Classical Roman Period
00:40 Patristic Roman Period
00:50 Chapter I. The Anglo-Saxon Period=The Old English (The Age of Settlement: 440/455-1066——–600-700 dark ages) Social Background and Literature
02:00 Chapter II. Anglo-Norman Period Then the flowering of The Middle English Period (1066-1485) Social Background and Literature
04:10 Chapter III. English Renaissance (1453-1660)
a. Elizabethan 04:50
b. Jacobean (James I) 05:00
c. Charles I 05:10
d. Caroline 05:20
e. Commonwealth 05:30
f. Charles II Social Background and Literature
07:40 Chapter IV. The Period of Revolution and Restoration (1660-1798) (= Neoclassical period= Englightenment (Age of Reason/Sense/Science/Logic)
08:00 The Restoration Era;
08:10 The Augustan Age;
08:31 the Age of Sensibility (Colonial Period in America) Social Background and Literature
09:42 Chapter V. The Period of Enlightenment and Classicism (the 18th century) Social Background and Literature
09:52 Chapter VI. The Romantic Period (± 1800 – ± 1850) Social Background and Literature
10:31 Chapter VII. Critical Realistic Period (VICTORIAN± 1850 – ± 1900) Social Background and Literature
11:22 Chapter VIII. The Modern Period (the 20th century) Social Background and Literature
Each chapter includes two parts:
1. Social Background
2. Literature (Important Names; Genres…)
Some periods are divided into sub-periods (eg. Chapter III: Elizabethan, Jacobean, Charles I, Caroline, Commonwealth, Charles II)
The words with an * have extra information in the following slides.
This is the most comprehensive summary I have prepared about English Literature. Still, it is not guaranteed that all the information here is correct or comprehensive enough.
I believe it will be a great help in your studies.
Kenan AKARSLAN
The rar file also includes:
ages of British literature in pictures altogether (word document)
figures of speech (word document)
Literary Genres with examples and important terms (word document)
literary terms with examples (word document)
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