Outline Of British And American Literary History Flashcards
Date: 1300-1500
Period: Middle English Battle of Agincourt (1415)
Gutenberg Bible (1456)
William Langland (1380) Geoffrey Chaucer (1380) Thomas Malory (1450)
Date: 400-1300
Period: Old English (c. 1000, the English language became strongly influenced by medieval French)
Battle of Hastings (1066)
Caedmon c. 670
Author of Beowulf c. 750
Date: 1500-1558
Period: Early Tudor period
Reigns of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary
John Skelton
Thomas More
Date: 1558-1603
Period: Elizabethan period
Reign of Elizabeth I
Philip Sidney Edmund Spenser John Lyly Christopher Marlowe William Shakespeare
Date: 1603-1625
Period: Jacobean period
Reign of James I
Ben Jonson
Date: 1625-1649
Period: Caroline period
Reign of Charles I
John Donne
John Webster
Date: 1649-1660
Period: Charles I executed (1649)
Cromwell and the Interregnum
John Milton
Robert Herrick
Andrew Marvell
Date: 1660-1714
Period: Restoration
Reign of Charles II (1660-1702)
William Congreve
George Etherege
John Bunyan
John Dryden
Date: 1714-1727
Period: Reign of Anne (1702-1714), the last Stuart monarch
Daniel Defoe
Alexander Pope
Date: 1727-1760
Period: Reign of George I of the House of Hanover
Jonathan Swift
Henry Fielding
Thomas Gray
Date: 1760-1790
Period: Reign of George II
The Enlightenment First 30 years of reign of George III American Revolution (1775-1783)
The Gothic Novel
Samuel Johnson Lawrence Sterne Horace Walpole Thomas Chatterton Mary Wollstonecraft William Cowper
Date: 1790-1820
Period: Early Romantic period
Second 30 years of reign of George III
Sturm und Drang in Germany
Anne Radcliffe William Blake William Wordsworth Samuel Coleridge Percy Bysshe Shelley Lord Byron John Keats
Date: 1820-1837
Period: Middle Romantic period
Reign of George IV (1820-1830)
Reign of William IV (1830-1837)
Charles Lamb
Jane Austen
British: Thomas Carlyle, Alfred Tennyson
American: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe
Date: 1837-1869
Period: Late Romantic and Victorian periods
First 32 years of reign of Victoria
British:
Thomas Macaulay Emily Bronte Charlotte Bronte Charles Dickens Robert Browning
Date: 1837-1869
Period: Transcendentalism in the United States
American:
Nathaniel Hawthorne Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Walt Whitman Herman Melville
