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01 overview
- 1. An Overview of English and American Literature
- 2. What is English literature? Literature? English? American literature?
- 3. • The Middle Ages ( -1485) • The Sixteenth Century (1485-1603) • The Seventeenth Century (1603-1660) • The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1660-1798) • The Romantic Period (1798-1832) • The Victorian Age (1832-1901) • The Twentieth Century (1901-present) 1914-1945 : The Modern Period 1945- : Postmodern Period Periods of English Literature (Norton Anthology Periodization)
- 4. Before the Middle Ages ( -1485) The Roman Period (43 A.D. – 410) • 56 BC: Caesar visited Britain. • 40 AD: Roman colony founded. • 410: Last Roman legion withdrawn from England.
- 5. The Middle Ages ( -1485) The Anglo-Saxon Period (450-1066) • ca. 450: Anglo-Saxon Conquest. • 597: Christianity introduced to England by St. Augustine.. • 1066: England conquered by the Normans.
- 6. The Middle Ages ( -1485) The Norman-French Period (1066-1340) • ca. 1200: Beginnings of Middle English literature. • 1095: The First Crusade begins.
- 7. The Middle Ages ( -1485) The Late Middle Ages (1340-1485) • 1387: Geoffrey Chaucer begins to write The Canterbury Tales. • 1474: First book in English printed by Caxton.
- 8. The Sixteenth Century (1485-1603) • 1485: Henry VII starts the Tudor sovereigns. • 1509: Henry VIII becomes king. • 1558: Elizabeth I becomes queen. • 1576: The Theatre built. • 1588: Spanish Armada defeated. • 1603: Elizabeth I dies.
- 9. The Seventeenth Century (1603-1660) • 1603: James I starts the Stuart line. • 1620: Plymouth colony founded. • 1641: Civil War breaks out. All theatres closed. • 1649: Charles I executed; The commonwealth established. • 1660: Charles II restored to throne.
- 10. The Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1660-1798) • 1660: Charles II restored to throne. • 1668: The Glorious Revolution. • 1776: The American colonies united for freedom. • 1789: The French Revolution begin.
- 11. The Romantic Period (1798-1832) • 1798: Lyrical Ballads published. • 1842: The Reform Bill carried in Parliament.
- 12. The Victorian Age (1832-1901) • 1837: Victoria becomes queen. • 1851: The Great Exhibition in London. • 1859: Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species published. • 1901: Queen Victoria dies.
- 13. The Twentieth Century (1901- ) Modern Period (1914-1945) • 1914-18: World War I. • 1922: T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land; James Joyce’s Ulysses. • 1930: Period of depression begins. • 1939-45: World War II breaks out.
- 14. The Twentieth Century (1901- ) Postmodern Period (1945- )
- 15. • Early American Literature 1620-1820 • American Literature 1820-1865 • American Literature 1865-1914 • American Literature between the Wars 1914-1945 • American Literature Since 1945 Periods of American Literature (Norton Anthology Periodization)
- 16. Early American Literature 1620-1820 • 1492: Columbus arrives at one of the Bahamas Islands. • 1620: Mayflower Compact signed. • 1776: Declaration of Independence.
- 17. American Literature 1820-1865 • 1831: Nat Turner’s revolt. • 1838-39: The Trail of Tears. • 1849: California Gold Rush begins. • 1861-65: American Civil War.
- 18. American Literature 1865-1914 • 1867: Reconstruction Acts. • 1871: Great Chicago Fire.
- 19. American Literature between the Wars 1910-1945 • 1917: U.S. enters World War I. • 1929: Great Depression begins. • 1941: U.S. enters World War II.
- 20. American Literature Since 1945 • 1950: McCarthyism begins. • 1961: Vietnam War begins. • 1968: Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated. • 1975: Vietnam War ends.