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Literature
1000 BC - Present
800BC-400BC: Ancient Greek
Literature
• Forms the basis of liberal arts education, and
has been taught since organized education
began. Includes philosophical treatises, epic
poetry, myths and plays.
• Aristotle, Poetics
• Plato, The Apology
• Sophocles, Antigone
• Homer, The Illiad & The Odyssey
450-1066: Anglo-Saxon (Old English)
Literature
• Primarily consists of poems already circulating
in oral form at the time they were first written
down. The bulk of the prose literature is
historical or religious in nature.
• Beowulf
• The transitional period between Anglo-Saxon
and modern English literature. This time
period saw a flowering of secular literature,
including ballads and allegorical poems.
• Petrarch Petrarchan sonnets
• Dante Aligheri The Divine Comedy
• Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales
1500-1660: The Renaissance
British Literature
• Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
• Mary Shelley Frankenstein
American Literature
• Washington Irving Rip Van Winkle
• James Fenimore Cooper Last of the Mohicans
• Victorian novels tend to be idealized portraits
of difficult lives in which hard work,
perseverance, love and luck win out in the
end; virtue would be rewarded and
wrongdoers are suitably punished. They often
contain a central moral lesson or theme.
Victorian Period (cont’d)
World Literature
• Henrik Ibsen A Doll’s House
• Victor Hugo Les Miserables
• Gustave Flaubet Madame Bovary
British Victorian Poetry
• Robert Browning
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
British Victorian Literature
• Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
• Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
• Charles Dickens Great Expectations
• A period during which American literature came of age
as an expression of a national spirit. These authors
utilized native dialect, history, landscape, and
characters in order to explore uniquely American
issues. Critics regard some of the short fiction
produced during the American Renaissance as some of
the best American fiction ever written.
• Emily Dickinson poetry
• Walt Whitman poetry
• Herman Melville Moby Dick & Billy Budd
• Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
1835-1860: Transcendentalism