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Download Research Project History of English Literature In pairs you will be
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Research Project History of English Literature In pairs you will be given one of the following periods of English Literature to research and to prepare an interesting powerpoint presentation on + you will also prepare a condensed version of your research so that everyone will have 1 sheet of A4 with information on: Old English Literature + Middle English Literature (up to 1500) Tudor and Stuart Literature – including Shakespeare (1500-1700) Augustan and Romantic Literature – including Gothic Literature (1700-1837) Victorian Literature until 1880 Late Victorian Literature (1880-1900) + Ends and beginnings (1901-1919) – including the war poets From Post War – Post War (1920-1955) - including Modernism New Beginnings 1955-1980 – also include contemporary writers + post-modernism American Literature Greek/Roman Literature With your allocated area you must produce the following: A contextual overview of the period (ie: historical and cultural events) Some key writers and key texts from the period Some key features of the literary movement/s of the period The role of female writers during the period Hints on each period Period Old English Literature + Middle English Literature (up to 1500) Tudor and Stuart Literature – including Shakespeare (1500-1700) Augustan and Romantic Literature – including Gothic Literature (17001837) Victorian Literature until 1880 Hints Anglo Saxons Oral traditions Aldhelm, Bede, Caedmon Heroic Poetry Christian Literature Beowulf Battle Poetry Impact of French, printing… Epic, romance Chaucer Courtly Literature Drama King Arthur Medieval Renaissance Reformation Bible Elizabethan Literature The Jacobeans King James Christopher Marlowe Shakespeare John Donne Metaphysical Poets Milton The Restoration The Enlightenment Alexander Pope Jonathan Swift Daniel Defoe Gothic Fiction Pre-Romantic Sensibility The Dictionary Robert Burns The Novel The Romantic Poets Mary Shelley Jane Austen The Victorian Age Charles Darwin Tennyson Elizabeth and Robert Browning The Rossettis The Brontes Elizabeth Gaskell Charles Dickens George Elliot Lewis Carroll Late Victorian Literature (18801900) + Ends and beginnings (19011919) – including the war poets From Post War – Post War (19201955) - including Modernism New Beginnings 19551980 – also include contemporary writers + post-modernism American Literature Greek/Roman Literature Hardy James Wilde GB Shaw Edwardians Kipling Wells Joseph Conrad EM Forster The War Poets and the First World War Modernism Lawrence Joyce Woolf Yeats Eliot Twenties and Thirties – Non-Modernism Auden Greene Orwell CS Lewis Tolkien Beckett Osbourne Pinter Novels Galore Golding Spark Murdoch Larkin Heaney Post Modernism Notable recent novels Overview of Literature and Historical Contexts Overview of Literature, Influences and Historical Contexts
