British Lit Time Periods

Question 1

British: Anglo-Saxon Period

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449-1066, epic poems and courageous heros

Question 2

British: Medieval Period

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1066-1485, focus on religion, romance, and chivalry; Morality plays and folk ballads

Question 3

British: Renaissance Period

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1485-1660, literature focused on love and the nature of human beings

Question 4

British: Restoration Period

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1660-1798, comedies of manners, essays, and satires

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British: Romantic Period

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1785-1830, truth found in nature and in unrestrained imagination; lyrical ballads and gothic horrors

Question 6

British: Victorian Period

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1832-1900, social, religious, and economic turmoil; printing press brought novels to the middle class

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British: Modern Era

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1900-1945, social issues and character epiphanies; stream of consciousness

Question 8

Chaucer and Sir Thomas Mallory wrote during this period

Answer 8

British: Medieval Period, 1066-1485

Question 9

This period included the Elizabethan Age and Neoclassical Period

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British: The Renaissance, 1485-1660

Question 10

This period included the Age of Sensibility and the Enlightenment

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British: The Restoration Period, 1660-1798

Question 11

The Metaphysical Poets wrote during this period

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British: The Restoration Period, 1660-1798

Question 12

Authors included Coleridge and Lord Byron

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British: The Romantic Period, 1785-1830

Question 13

Authors included Browning and Dickens

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British: Victorian Period, 1832-1900

Question 14

T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf wrote during this period

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British: The Modern Era, 1900-1945

Question 15

Bernard Shaw and George Orwell wrote during this time

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British: The Modern Era, 1900-1945

Question 16

D. H. Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield wrote during this time

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British: The Modern Era, 1900-1945