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Intro to british lit and middle ages
1. British Literature
Refers to literature from the United
Kingdom
What is the United Kingdom?
England
Scotland
Wales
North Ireland
2. British Literature
Earliest forms of British literature
developed after the settlement of the
Saxons and other Germanic tribes in
England after the withdrawal of the
Romans.
3. Understanding the Lay of the Land
It helps to see
where the UK is
in comparison to
the others
countries that
affected its
history through
invasions.
4. The Ages of British Literature
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
The Restoration and 18th
Century
The Romantic Age
The Victorian Age
The Modern Age
5. The Middle Ages 449-1485
Broken into two segments:
The Anglo-Saxon Period 449-1066
• Beowulf
The Medieval Period 1066-1485
• Geoffrey Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales and
Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight)
• Sir Thomas Malory (Le Morte Darthur)
6. The Renaissance 1485-1660
The Early Renaissance1485-1558
The Elizabethan Age 1558-1603
William Shakespeare, Christopher
Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh
The Jacobean Age 1567-1625
John Donne, Ben Jonson
The Puritan Age 1600-1660
John Milton (Paradise Lost), John Bunyon
(The Pilgrim’s Progress)
7. The Restoration
and 18th
Century
The Restoration 1660-1700
The Age of Pope 1700-1744
Alexander Pope
Jonathan Swift (Gulliver’s Travels)
The Age of Johnson 1744-1798
Samuel Johnson, William Blake
1660-1798
8. The Romantic Period 1798-1832
William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge,
Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, John Keats
Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice),
Mary Shelley (Frankenstein),
9. The Victorian Age 1832-1900
Lord Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti
Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights), Charlotte
Bronte (Jane Eyre), Thomas Hardy (Tess of
the D'Urbervilles), Charles Dickens (Oliver
Twist), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (The
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes), Rudyard
Kipling (Jungle Book, Rikki Tikki Tavi)
10. The Modern Age 1900-
Joseph Conrad (The Heart of Darkness), H.G. Wells
(The Time Machine, War of the Worlds, The Invisible
Man), Saki (The Open Window), E.M. Forster (A
Room with a View, A Passage to India), Virginia
Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway), James Joyce (Ulysses), D.H.
Lawrence (The Rocking-Horse Winner, Lady
Chatterley’s Lover), George Orwell (1984, Animal
Farm), T.H. White (The Once and Future King)
William Butler Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas,
Margaret Atwood,
Bernard Shaw (Pygmalion)
