Literature seen from historical and thematic approaches
If you've ever thought of approaching literature from a historical approach (English through the ages, if you like) or from a thematic approach (Romantic, realism, Naturalism), this website is a great starting point.
The site considers the different literary periods, and is really very thorough:
Literary Periods
- Renaissance Literature
- The Enlightenment
- Romanticism
- Transcendentalism
- Victorian Literature
- Realism
- Naturalism
- Modernism
- Bloomsbury Group
- Existentialism
- Beat Generation
English Literature History
- From the Conquest to Chaucer 1066-1400
- From Chaucer to Spenser 1400-1599
- The Age of Shakespeare 1564-1616
- The Age of Milton 1608-1674
- From the Restoration to the Death of Pope 1660-1744
- The Death of Pope to the French Revolution 1744-1789
- The French Revolution to the Death of Scott 1789-1832
- From the Death of Scott to the Present Time 1832-1893
- Appendix
American Literature History
If you would rather see the evolution through a clear timeline, try here
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