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Historical Time Period - AO3 Flashcards

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What year did the Medieval period start & end?

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1066-1485

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What was the content of the Medieval Period?

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  • Plays that instruct the illiterate masses in morals & religion
  • Chivalric code of honour/romances
  • Religious devotion
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What was the styles/genres in Medieval Period?

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  • Folk Ballads
  • Mystery & Miracle plays
  • Morality plays
  • Stock epithets
  • Kennings
  • Frame Stories
  • Moral Tales
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What effect did the Medieval Period have on society?

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  • Church instructs its ppl through the morality & miracle plays
  • An illiterate population is able to hear & see the literature
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What happened during the Medieval Period?

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  • Crusades bring the development of a money economy for the first time in Britain
  • Trading increases dramatically as a result of the Crusades
  • William the Conqueror crowned king in 1066
  • Henry III crowned king in 1154 brings a judicial system, royal courts, juries, and chivalry to Britain
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What year did The Renaissance period start & end?

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1485-1660

The Elizabethan Period - reign of Elizabeth I, 1586-1603
Jacobean Period - reign of James I of England, 1603-1625

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What is the content for The Renaissance?

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  • World view shifts from religion & after life to one stressing the human life on earth
  • Popular theme: development of human potential
  • Popular theme: many aspects of love explored
  • Unrequited Love
  • Constant Love
  • Timeless love
  • Courtly love
  • Love subject to change
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What is the Style/Genres for The Renaissance?

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  • Poetry
  • The sonnet
  • Metaphysical Poetry
  • Elaborate & unexpected metaphors called conceits
  • Drama
  • Written in verse
  • Supported by royalty
  • Tragedies, Comedies, Histories,
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What is the effect of The Renaissance?

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  • Commoners welcomed at some play productions (like ones a t the Globe) while conservatives try to close the theatres on the grounds that they promote brazen behaviours
  • Not all middle-class embrace the metaphysical poets & their abstract conceits
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What happened during The Renaissance period?

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  • War of Roses ends in 1485 & political stability arrives
  • Printing press helps stabilize English as a lang & allows more ppl to read a variety of literature
  • Economy changes from farm-based to one of international trade
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What year did the Neoclassical Period start and end?

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1660-1798
The Restoration: the reign of Charles II, 1630-1660 (after his restoration to the thrown in 1630 following the English Civil War & Cromwell)
The Age of Enlightenment (the Eighteenth Century)

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What’s the content for The Neoclassical Period?

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  • Emphasis on reason & logic
  • Stresses harmony, stability, wisdom
  • Locke: a social construct exists between the government & the ppl. The government governs guaranteeing “natural lights” of life, liberty, & property
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What’s the style/genres for The Neoclassical Period?

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  • Satire
  • Poetry
  • Essays
  • Letters, diaries, biographies
  • Novels
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What is the effect of The Neoclassical Period?

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  • Emphasis on the individual
  • Belief that humanity is basically evil
  • Approach to life: “the world as it should be”
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What happened during The Neoclassical Period?

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  • 50% of males are functionally literate (a dramatic rise)
  • Fenced enclosures of land cause demise of traditional village life
  • Factories began to spring up as industrial revolution begins
  • Impoverished masses begin to grow as farming life declines & factories build
  • Coffee houses – where educated men spend evenings with literary & political associates
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What year did the Romantic Period start & end?

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1798-1832

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What is the content for The Romantic Period?

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  • Human knowledge consists of impressions & ideas formed in the individual’s mind
  • Introduction of Gothic elements & terror/horror stories & novels
  • In nature one can find comfort & peace that the man-made urbanised towns & factor environments cannot offer
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What are the Style/Genres of The Romantic Period?

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  • Poetry

- Lyrical Ballads

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What are the effects of The Romantic Period?

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  • Evil attributed to society not to human nature
  • Human beings are basically good
  • Movement of protest: a desire for personal freedom
  • Children seen as hapless victims of poverty and exploitation
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What happened during The Romantic Period?

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  • Napoleon rises to power in France & opposes England military & economically
  • Tory philosophy that government should NOT interfere with private enterprise
  • Middle class gains representation in British parliament
  • Railroads begin to run
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What year did The Victorian Period start and end?

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1832-1900

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What is the content for The Victorian Period?

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  • Conflict between those in power & the common masses of labourers & the poor
  • Shocking life of workhouses & urban poor is highlighted in literature to insist on reform
  • Country verses city life
  • Sexual discretion (or lack of it)
  • Strained coincidences
  • Romantic triangles
  • Heroines in physical danger
  • Aristocratic villains
  • Misdirected letters
  • Bigamous marriages
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What is the styles/genres of The Victorian Period?

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  • Novel becomes popular for the first time
  • Bildungsroman
  • Political novels
  • Detective novels
  • Serialised novels
  • Elegies
  • Poetry: easier to understand
  • Dramatic monologues
  • Drama: comedies of manners
  • Magazines offer stories to the masses
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What is the effect of The Victorian Period?

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  • Literature begins to reach the masses
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What happened during The Victorian Period?

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  • Paper becomes cheap; magazines & novels cheap to mass produce
  • Unprecedented growth of industry & business in Britain
  • Unparalleled dominance of nations, economies & trade abroad
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What year did The Modern Period start and end?

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1900- subject to debate

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What is the content of The Modern Period?

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  • Breakdown of social norms
  • Separation of meanings & senses from the context
  • Despairing individual behaviours in the face of an unmanageable future
  • Spiritual loneliness
  • Alienation
  • Frustration when reading the text
  • Disillusionment
  • Rejection of history
  • Rejection of outdated social systems
  • Objection to traditional thoughts & traditional moralities
  • Objection to religious thoughts
  • Substitution of a mythical past
  • Two world wars effects’ on humanity
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What is the styles/genres of The Modern Period?

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  • Poetry: free verse
  • Epiphanies began
  • Speeches
  • Memoirs
  • Novels
  • Stream of consciousness
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What is the effect of The Modern Period?

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  • Literature attempts to search for ‘truthes’ & discover the deep ideas & meanings behind
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What happened during The Modern Period?

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  • British Empire loses 1 million soldiers to WW1
  • Winston Churchill leads Britain through WW II, & Germans bomb England directly
  • British colonies demand independence
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What year did Post Modern Period start & end?

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1945-present

  • Assumption postmodernism started after WW2
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What’s the difference between Modernism & Postmodernism?

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  • Modernism: places faith in ideas, values, beliefs, culture& norms of the West
  • Postmodernism: Rejects Western values/beliefs
  • Modernism: reveal profound truths of experience & life
  • Postmodernism: suspicious of being “profound” because ideas are western value systems
  • Modernism: to find depth & interior meaning beneath the surface of objects/events
  • Postmodernism: dwell on the exterior images & avoids drawing conclusions or suggest underlying meanings associated with the interior of objects/events
  • Modernism: focuses on central themes & united vision in a particular piece of literature
  • Postmodernism: sees human exp as unstable, internally contradictory, ambiguous, inconclusive, indeterminate, unfinished, fragmented, with no specific reality possible.
  • Modernism: authors guide & control the reader’s response to their work
  • Postmodernism: creates an “open” work in which the reader must supply his own connections, work out alternative meanings, & provide his own interpretation.
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When was World War 2?

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1939-1945

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When was World War I?

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1914-1918

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How did World War 2 impact English Literature?

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