American Division Literature . [ 2]

American Division Literature . [ 2] 

Literature For Study :

- 1500 English Renaissance .English Golden Age Elizabeth [ 1558 – 1603 ] .            [ Shakespeare – Raleigh ]

- 1600 English Renaissance continues to 1660 . Jacobean Age of King James          [ 1603 – 1625 ]

- Caroline Age [ 1625 – 1649 ] .                                                                                  - English Commonwealth Period [ 1649 – 1660 ] .                                                    -Restoration England [ 1660 – 1700 ] .

-Neoclassicism in art and literature . American Colonialism .

Captain John Smith and Cotton Mather .

- 1700 English Neoclassicism continues to 1798 .

- Augustan Age [ 1700 – 1745 ] – emphasis on Latin literature [ Age of Pope]

-Age of Sensibility [ 1745 – 1798 ] . Samuel Johnson .

- American Colonialism ends [ 1775 ] . Nationalism begins .

-Franklin and Jefferson [ American Revolution [ 1775 ] .

-1800 English Romantic Period to 1832 .

Revolt against Neoclassicism in art and literature . Wordsworth and Byron .

-American Transcendentalism and Romanticism [ 1823 – 1865 ]. Ralph Waldo Emerson .

-Holmes and Poe [ American Civil War [ 1861 – 1865 ] .

-Victorian England [ 1832 – 1901 ] .Emphasis on respectability . Dickens  , Browning , Rossetti .

=American Realism [ 1865 – 1900 ] . Art and literature mirror life . Twain and Hawthorne .

-1900 Edwardian England [ 1901 – 1910 ] . Emphasis on elegance . Yeats and Kipling .

-American Naturalism to 1930 . Literature includes environmental realism.      - England’s Georgian Age to 1940 .

- Modern literature [ 1914 – 1965 ] .

- Postmodern literature [ 1965 – up till now .