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MindMap Gallery Development of English Literature

Development of English Literature

This is a mind map about Development of English Literature, Main content: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."——Charles Dickens,

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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）

feature

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）

feature

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）

feature

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)

feature

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）

feature

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)

feature

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

feature

Literary experiments, stream of consciousness, and the rise of modernism.

Writers

James Joyce's Ulysses

T. S. Eliot

Romantic period (1798–1832）

feature

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

feature

The rise of humanistic thought and the dissemination of knowledge through printing.

Elizabethan period (1558–1603）

feature

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）

feature

Religious themes and poetry

Writers

John Donne

The Puritan period (1625–1649）

feature

Political and religious conflicts coexist with fables and epics.

Writers

John Milton's Paradise Lost

Caroline period (1625–1649）

feature

The prosperity of court lyrical poetry

During the Republic period (1649–1660）

feature

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)