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Literary Periods & History Timeline - online literature
Here you will find our graphical timeline representing literary periods & movements, as well as major events or authors from literature history. To learn more about specific eras you can browse back to our Literary Periods page. You may purchase this timeline in poster form here.
Literary Periods, Movements, and History - online literature
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. English Literature History
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The Enlightenment - Literature Periods & Movements
Citizens would gather to read whatever literature was available, to engage in heated conversation with neighbors, or to ponder the affairs of state. What made this kind of revolution in free time possible was an increasingly urban, sophisticated population coupled with the steady progress of industrialization.
Trancendentalism - Literature Periods & Movements
The literary productions of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman shifted the balance of power in English literature away from the British Isles and towards the United States. The new American literature was bold, fresh, and young. It encompassed the sweep of the prairies and the energies of the explorers.
Existentialism - Literature Periods & Movements
Contemporary literature adopts, discards, and modifies so many philosophical and aesthetic perspectives that holistic points of view like existentialism gets washed out by all the competing voices. However, the influence of existential thought is not totally swept away, as many filmmakers and novelists still claim the likes of Kafka or Sartre ...
The Mysterious Island - online literature
Mar 23, 2010 · mysterious island. I had an old copy of MI. Way back in 1961 I read the book and was facinated. I had some doubts: What is Brqueral cell, what is the real motive power of Nautilus, how the islanders could survive the tremendous heat and other problems of the volcanic eruption and how the telegraphic messages were sent and recieved.
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The Beat Generation - Literature Periods & Movements
The publication of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl in 1956 marks a turning point in the history of Beat literature, not to mention American literature in general. The long-form poem is intended to be read aloud, almost chanted, a sort of return to an oral tradition that had been neglected in literature for a long time.