Overview of Brit Lit Ages

Question 1

British Lit Overview-

How many ages?

Answer 1

Total of 10 ages

1. Anglo Saxon
2. Middle English
3. Renaissance
4. Neoclassical
5. Romantic
6. Victorian
7. Edwardian
8. Georgian
9. Modern
10. Post- Modern

Question 2

Constituents of the Renaissance Age-

Answer 2

Elizabethan, Jacobean, Caroline, Commonwealth

Question 3

Constituents of the Neoclassical Age-

Answer 3

Restoration, Augustan, Sensibility

Question 4

When did the Reform Bill come and what was it?

Answer 4

The Representation of the People Act 1832 was a British law that reformed the electoral system by abolishing tiny districts, gave representation to cities, gave the vote to small landowners, tenant farmers, and shopkeepers and to householders who paid a yearly rental of £10 or more and some lodgers.

Question 5

Constituents of the Victorian Age

Answer 5

Pre- Raphaelites, Aestheticism, and Decadence

Question 6

World War 1

Answer 6

1914

Question 7

World War 2

Answer 7

1939- 1945

Question 8

Which of the periods of English Literature is also called “Puritan Interregnum”?

Answer 8

Commonwealth Period