Literary History - part 2

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Literary History

Part 2

Terminology

How well do you know the terminology that belongs to literary history?

Enlightenment

Which form of literature was created the most during the Enlightenment Period?

1. poetry
2. drama
3. essays
4. fiction

Where did the interests lie of the followers of the Enlightenment Period?

A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Poor Richard's Almanac

Candide

Voltaire

Mary Wollstonecraft

Ben Franklin

Neoclassicism

What is one of the most defining features of 18th-century literature?

What is the modern-day word for sequential art?

Gulliver's Travels

The Rape of the Lock and The Dunciad

Robinson  Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

Jonathan Swift

Alexander Pope

Romanticism

Where did the interests lie of the followers of Romaticism?

What are the characteristics of Romantic prose?

1. departure from reason
2. focus on nature
3. element of the supernatural

Wuthering Heights

Frankenstein

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Emily Brontë

Mary Shelley

Part 1:

• Medieval Period
• Renaissance
• Caroline / Interregnum / Restoration

Part 3:

• Victorianism
• Moderism
• Postmoderism