Anglo SaxonEnlightenment

RomanticContemporary

• 400-1066 AD• Most referred to as Vikings• English literature originated from the Anglo

Saxon culture

ENLIGHTENMENT

ERA• 18th century• Originally developed in

France, Great Britain, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Portugal & American Colonies

• English (British) language used a lot of Latin roots

• Great literature came from this era

ERA.• Second half of the 18th century

• Poetry, art, music, dancing

• Had a major impact on education and language

1951-present

• Developed in the 19th century

• Post-romantic, and impressionism literature

• Mix of all genres of literature, in

one

Shakespeare• Tragedy

• Written in 1606 in England

• Used foreshadowing

• A lot of reading

Jonathan Swift• Written in 1726, Ireland

• About a man who travels all around the world pretending different people

• Became a very popular novel right away

Mary Wollstonecraft

Shelley

• Written in Switzerland in 1816, and London 1816-1817

• Tone - Gothic, Romantic, Emotional, Tragic, Fatalistic

Charles Dickens• Published in 1866 as part of

the Mugby Junction collection.

• “The Signalman” was haunted by a ghost

• Two train collision caused by phantom warnings which really happened five years earlier

• Many readers relate to the text

GRAHAM GREENE

• Tragic story of a boy’s father who was killed by a falling pig

• Pigs were kept on balconies in Italy

• The pig got too fat and broke the balcony

JOSEPH CONRAD

• Novella written in 1898-1899, England

• Events in the story take place in Brussels, in the Congo, and then a Belgian territory

• A lot of symbolism used

Elisabeth RennerCITED

• www.sparknotes.com• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver's_Travels• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Signal-Man• http://www.enotes.com/graham-greene/q-and-a/

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• http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/heart/facts.html