Anglo Saxon
Enlightenment
Romantic
Contemporary
• 400-1066 AD
• Most referred to as Vikings
• English literature originated from the Anglo
Saxon culture
ENLIGHTENMENT
ERA
• 18th century
• Originally developed in
France, Great Britain,
Germany, The Netherlands,
Spain, Italy, Portugal &
American Colonies
• English (British) language
used a lot of Latin roots
• Great literature came from
this era
ERA.
• Second half of the 18th century
• Poetry, art, music, dancing
• Had a major impact on education and
language
1951-present
• Developed in the 19th century
• Post-romantic, and impressionism
literature
• Mix of all genres of literature, in
one
Shakespeare
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Tragedy
Written in 1606 in England
Used foreshadowing
A lot of reading
Jonathan
Swift
• Written in 1726, Ireland
• About a man who travels all
around the world pretending
different people
• Became a very popular novel
right away
Mary
Wollstonecraft
Shelley
• Written in Switzerland in 1816, and
London 1816-1817
• Tone - Gothic, Romantic, Emotional,
Tragic, Fatalistic
Charles Dickens
• Published in 1866 as part of
the Mugby Junction
collection.
• “The Signalman” was
haunted by a ghost
• Two train collision caused
by phantom warnings which
really happened five years
earlier
• Many readers relate to the
text
• Tragic story of a
boy’s father who
was killed by a
falling pig
• Pigs were kept on
balconies in Italy
• The pig got too fat
and broke the
balcony
GRAHAM
GREENE
JOSEPH
CONRAD
• Novella written in 1898-1899,
England
• Events in the story take place in
Brussels, in the Congo, and
then a Belgian territory
• A lot of symbolism used
Elisabeth Renner
CITED
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www.sparknotes.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver's_Travels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Signal-Man
http://www.enotes.com/graham-greene/q-anda/whats-shocking-accident-by-graham-greeneabout-88847
• http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/heart/facts.html