BRITISH LITERATURE

AUTHOR HISTORICAL CONTEXT CULTURAL CONTEXT/ LITERARY (STYLE)

MOVEMENT
SHAKESPEARE ELIZABETHAN RENAISSANCE The Renaissance
AGE/JACOBEAN Period
DEFOE NEOCLASSICAL AGE CIRCUMSTANTIAL REALISM
SWIFT AUGUSTAN AGE ENLIGHTENMENT FANTASTIC REALISM
KEATS ROMANTICISM
AUSTEN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION ROMANTIC AGE - REALISM/ ANTI-
FRENCH REVOLUTION ROMANTIC
- NOVEL OF MANNERS
AUSTEN VICTORIAN AGE VICTORIAN - PRE- VICTORIAN
(REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA) (INDUSTRIALISATION; - REALISM
DICKENS COLONIAL EXPANSION) - VICTORIAN
- REALISM
CARROLL - EARLY- VICTORIAN
- Magic realism

HARDY - LATE- VICTORIAN

- NATURALISM
G. B. SHAW EDWARDIAN PERIOD EMERGENCE OF - DRAMA
MODERNISM - Expressionism
CONRAD MODERN PERIOD MODERNISM Influences from Romanticism
(preoccupation with framing
stories and with the battle between
good and evil), Victorianism
( exploration of moral issues) and
modernism (the problem of
identity, the terror of the
unknown, the difficulty of finding
a secure moral base, political
violence, uncertainty and lust)
JAMES (Br.) Psychological realism (external
conflicts, metamorphosis of the
 self, representations of the
outer), Modernism (stream of
consciousness, theorizing on
the nature and means of
modernism in fiction)
FORSTER Realist (primarily works, he
begins rebelling against
outmoded patterns of thought
and behavior, he forms the
Bloomsbury group),
modernism),
JOYCE Realist (representations are
discernible, his characters exist
in a reality suggested by their
daily struggle with survival,
naturalist -he shapes attitudes,
experimentalist – through his
rhetorical devices and narrative
technique)
WOOLF Modernism, Bloomsbury group,
stream of consciousness..
T. S. ELIOT (Br.) Modernism,
GOLDING ???? POST MODERNISM Post modernism
E. M. FORSTER
J. FOWLES Postmodernism
VONNEGUT ????

AMERICAN LITERATURE
AUTHOR HISTORICAL CONTEXT CULTURAL CONTEXT/ LITERARY (STYLE)
MOVEMENT
E. A. POE EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD ROMANTIC
 HAWTHORNE ???? - DARK ROMANTICISM
ROMANTIC PERIOD/ - TRANSCENDENTALISM
WHITMAN AMERICAN RENNAISANCE/ ???
E. DICKINSON AGE OF ???
MELVILLE TRANSCENDENTALISM ???
TWAIN ???? REALISTIC PERIOD REALISM
H. JAMES (Am.) ???
FITZGERALD ???? MODERNISM - JAZZ AGE
- MODERNISM
???
HEMINGWAY -“LOST GENERATION”
- MODERNISM (iceberg style)
T. S. ELIOT (Am.) -“LOST GENERATION”
- MODERNISM
FAULKNER - END OF MODERNIST
PERIOD
- MODERNIST