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Primogeniture
Medieval literature
The Bubonic/Black Plague
“end of the Renaissance period”
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen
John Donne
“literature about exploration of distant lands, usually by means of sailing”
“political interests were incorporated into literature”
Charles I
John Milton’s Paradise Lost
Charles II
Locke
Enlightenment
imperialism
“deals very strongly with the religion/religious beliefs of the time…saturated with hymns and
practices”
“writing deals with the way in which personal morals and ethics begin to conflict with religion”
“religion vs. science started to come out”
Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (“addressed slavery and British expansion”)
“novel came out for the first time”
“transatlantic slave trade”
“continued exploration of the globe”
“issues of colonialism, independence, and freedom”
“British writers were trying to define themselves against other European writers”
“elitist culture vs. ‘the rest’”
neo-classical
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (“often considered the first novel in English”)
Swift (“a satirical genius”), Gulliver’s Travels
“novels in epistolary form or journal-type form”
Alexander Pope
Rousseau
Great Britain at war with the American colonists (or “because King George was a jerk”)
“awareness of the American Revolutionary War” “struggle for American independence”
Jefferson
“rise in discussion of the British empire”
“canonized texts [that] are long-winded and stuffy”
“most literature based in rules and manners”
“awareness and ‘folding in’ of world culture”
“focus on work and human labor”
“rise in discussion of civil liberties”
“authors…tied nature and spirituality together…solitude…nature and humanity…symbolism of
nature and personifying it”
Mary Wollstonecraft (“wrote about the liberation of the female sex”)
“writing [by] slaves…not revealing too many secrets and replacing names was common…some
traveled and marked their travels…with their masters”
Wordsworth
Romantic Poets
Mary Shelley
Lord Byron
Sedgewick, A New-England Tale
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park
Poverty laws
Keats
“there was a lot of talk about industrialism within poetry”
Browning
Poe
Dickens
Thackeray, Vanity Fair
Yeats
Robert Frost
William Burroughs