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History
Literature History
Henry Augustin Beers was a literature historian and professor at Yale who lived at the turn of the 19th
century. He wrote intensely detailed histories of American and English literature, covering the periods up
until what were his modern times. We have collected those works below.
Appendix
Preface
Appendix
Literary Periods
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Renaissance Literature
The Enlightenment
Romanticism
Transcendentalism
Victorian Literature
Realism
Naturalism
Modernism
Bloomsbury Group
Existentialism
Beat Generation