EN 4 H Brit Lit Periods Review 1

Darwin, Marx, and Freud became dominant thought figures.

Literature of love and loss—Tennyson, Browning, Barrett-Browning, and Hopkins—attributed to this period.

Birth of Middle English after the invasion of Duke of Normandy marks a beginning for this period.

This era’s writers saw themselves as reformers of political, social, and moral matters.

Coleridge and a fellow poet published Lyrical Ballads.

King Alfred the Great reintroduced Christianity with beliefs that the afterlife was based on deeds, bravery, & loyalty.

Old English is the derivation of our basic vocabulary, and mythological gods gave us words for Thursday and Friday.

Pattern of loyal dependency fostered belief in bravery, fairness, and achieving fame such as in Beowulf.

People began asking “how” instead of “why,” thus leading to scientific explanations.

Animism (pagan) was the primary religion, but it began to mix with Christianity because of various invasions.

This period was given several labels: Augustan Age, Neoclassical Period, and Enlightenment.

Humanists sought for answers about life (why) in the works of earlier Latin and Greek classics.

Rebirth of intellect defined the period.

Signing of the Magna Carta is noteworthy during this period of a hierarchy.

Bubonic plague ruined feudalism.

The first version of the King James Bible was published in England.

Warfare was daily life.

Wars left writers with cynical views yet a yearning for diversity in writing styles.

Satire was the goal of Swift and Pope.

Expressions of human nature prevailed in writing and other arts.

Ideas of chivalry and courtly love governed knights.

Writers stressed imagination over reason.

Ironically, the woman novelist gained notoriety during this period of “no wars.”

The novel became an up-and-coming genre during a time when writing typically criticized political and social matters.

Radical new thinking in science, psychology, and economics challenged earlier convictions of “prudery.”