Am Lit

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Germanic tribes from Europe who overran England in the 5th century

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Old English

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represented by a large number of religious works

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Old English

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 Works frequently of a religiously didactic content.

 Written for performance at court or for festivals.

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Middle English

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 Influence of Aristotle

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The English Renaissance

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 Coincides with the reign of Elizabeth 1

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Elizabethan Age

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 Literature became sophisticated

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Jacobean Age

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reign of Charles 1.

refinement and elegance

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Caroline Age

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refinement and elegance

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Caroline Age

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Oliver Cromwell

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Commonwealth Period

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political treatise

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Commonwealth Period

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of philosophy, reason, skepticism, wit

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The Neoclassical Period

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tolerance over religious and political passion

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Restoration

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 produced an abundance of prose and poetry and the distinctive comedy

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Restoration

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under the Roman emperor Augustus

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Augustan Age or Age of Pope

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under the Roman emperor Augustus

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Augustan Age or Age of Pope

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predominant characteristics of refinement

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Augustan Age or Age of Pope

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emphasize instinct

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Age of Sensibility

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strong use of feeling

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Romantic Period

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were considered innovative based on their belief that literature should be spontaneous, imaginative, personal, and free

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Romantic Period

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reign of Queen Victoria

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Victorian Period

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 Period of stability and prosperity for Britain

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Victorian Period

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gothic themes begun in Romantic Period

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Victorian Period

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return painting to a style of truthfulness, simplicity, and religious devotion that had reigned

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The Pre-Raphaelites

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formed the “Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.”

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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movement encouraged experimentation and held the view that

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Aestheticism and Decadence

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 the phrase art for art’s sake emerged

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 Oscar Wilde

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 Named for King Edward VII

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Edwardian Period

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continuation of Victorian Period

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Edwardian Period

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reign of George V

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Georgian Period

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 produced a group of poets known as the Georgian poets

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Georgian Period

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 Reaction against the values which led to WWI

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Modern Period

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 Form and content reflect the confusion and vicissitudes of modern life

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Modern Period

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 Critical dispute over whether an actual period or a renewal and continuation Modernism post-WWII.

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Post-Modern Period

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founding of the first settlement at Jamestown to the outbreak of the Revolution

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The Colonial Period

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 Some of the greatest documents of American history were authored.

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The Revolutionary Age

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wrote The Declaration of Independence.

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Thomas Jefferson

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the beginnings of literature that could be truly identified as “American”.

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The Early National Period

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American Renaissance or the Age of Transcendentalism

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Romantic Period

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this period produced works of originality and excellence

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Romantic Period

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 Major form of literature-realistic fiction

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Realistic Period

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the reader believe that the characters actually might exist and the situations might actually happen.

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Realistic Period

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claims to give an even more accurate depiction of life than realism

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Naturalistic Period

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 In accordance with a post-Darwinian thesis

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Naturalistic Period

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 The Beginnings of Modern Literature

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American Modernists

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 Modernists experimented with subject matter

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American Modernists

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Jazz Age

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 F. Scott Fitzgerald-Jazz Age