MindMap Gallery Development of English Literature
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Development of English Literature
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."——Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Middle English Period (1066–1500)
Norman period (1066–1340)
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The influence of French is significant, and knightly literature and romantic legends are popular.
representative work
The Legend of King Arthur
Marie de France's Fable Poems
The Chaucer period (1340–1400)
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The language is close to modern English, and narrative poetry and satirical literature have emerged.
Representative writer
Geoffrey Chaucer
representative work
Canterbury Tales Collection
Frame narrative structure, dialect writing promotes English standardization, and satire from various social classes
Desolation/Dark Period (1400–1485/1500)
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War turmoil (Rose War) led to a decrease in literary creation.
representative work
Morty Arthur
Neoclassical period (1660–1798)
the restoration
Writers
John Dryden
Augustan period/Pop period (1700-1745)
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Satirical poetry is prevalent, emphasizing rationality and order.
Writers
Alexander Popp
The Sensory Period/Johnson Period (1745-1798)
Writers
Samuel Johnson
Victorian era (1832–1901)
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The rise of realism and social critical literature.
Representative writers and works
Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Cities
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Post Modern (1939–present)
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Diversified narrative, including metafiction, absurd drama, magical realism, and postcolonial literature.
Representative writers and works
George Orwell's 1984
Kurt Vonnegut's "The Fifth Slaughterhouse"
Salman Rushdie's' Midnight Son '
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."——Charles Dickens
Contemporary/21st Century Literature (2000–present)
Literary Features
Globalization and Cross Cultural Narrative
Science fiction, fantasy, and dystopian literature
Climate novels(Cli-fi), identity politics, and multicultural themes
Online literature and cross media works (adaptations of novels into movies/games)
Representative writers and works
Kazuo Ishiguro's "Don't Let Me Go" and "Clara and the Sun"
Margaret Atwood's Testament
Cheyenne Miller: A New Strange Tales Novel
Sally Rooney's' Normal People '
Cormac McCarthy's' The Road '
Modern Period (1901–1939)
Edwardian period
Writers
EM Foster
Georgian Period
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Literary experiments, stream of consciousness, and the rise of modernism.
Writers
James Joyce's Ulysses
T. S. Eliot
Romantic period (1798–1832)
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Emphasize emotions and nature, and oppose excessive rationality.
Representative writers and works
William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge (Lyrical Ballads)
Byron, Shelley, and Keats (Three Romantic Poets)
Renaissance period (1500–1660)
The preparatory stage of the Renaissance
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The rise of humanistic thought and the dissemination of knowledge through printing.
Elizabethan period (1558–1603)
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The Golden Age of Drama
Representative writers and works
William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet
Christopher Marlowe: "Dr. Faust"
During the reign of James I (1603–1625)
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Religious themes and poetry
Writers
John Donne
The Puritan period (1625–1649)
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Political and religious conflicts coexist with fables and epics.
Writers
John Milton's Paradise Lost
Caroline period (1625–1649)
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The prosperity of court lyrical poetry
During the Republic period (1649–1660)
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Literature is mostly about political and religious debates, and plays are suppressed.
Old English Period (450–1066)
Literary Features
Mainly through oral transmission, the influence of Christianity is gradually increasing; Mostly epic and religious poems.
representative work
Beowulf
The fusion of Norse mythology and Christian ethics, the first national epic
Important writer
Anonymous (the author of the epic is often unknown)