Literary Periods / Literary History

Question 1

Literary Periods according to Nünning

Answer 1

500-1150 > Old English Period
1150-1500> Middle English Period
1500-1649> Renaissance
1649-1660> Commonwealth
1660-1700> Restoration
1700-1780> Neo-Classicism and Enlightenment
1780-1837> Romantic Period
1837-1901> Victorian Period
1901-1914> Edwardian Period
1914-1945> Modernism
since 1945> Post-war and postmodernism

Question 2

(Literary) History
43, 1066, 1215, 1558, 1588

Answer 2

43 > Roman Conquest
1066 > Norman Conquest
1215 > First Constitution
1558 > Elizabethan Age begins
1588 > Defeat of the Spanish

Question 3

(Literary) History
1603, 1620, 1642, 1688, 1707

Answer 3

1603 > James I becomes King
1620 > Mayflower arrives in America
1642 > First English Civil War
1688 > Glorious Revolution
1707 > England & Scotland united

Question 4

(Literary) History
1745, 1776, 1805, 1812, 1815, 1832

Answer 4

1745 > Second Jacobite rebellion
1776 > Declaration of the Independence
1805 > Battle of Trafalgar
1812 > British-american war (over power of North American continent)
1815 > Battle of Waterloo (Victory over Napoleon)
1832 > Reform Act

Question 5

(Literary) History
1837, 1851, 1901, 1917, 1947

Answer 5

1837 > Victorian Age begins
1851 > Great Exhibition
1901 > Queen Victoria dies
1917 > US joins WW1
1947 > Indian Independence Act