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| show | Period from 1965 to current. A time of continuance and contemplation. Spiritual malaise defined by Margaret Drabble in The Ice Age. (denial of order, fragmented universes)
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| show | Period of American literature in 1960s to current. Find chief values in self rather than society; importance in introspection and confession. Anne Sexton, Theodore Roethke, John Updike.
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| show | Period of American literature between 1900 and 1930, divided by World War I.
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| show | A period of American literature between the formation of the national government and the "Second Revolution" of the Jacksonian Democracy.
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| show | Period from 1832-1870; a time of gradual tempering of the romantic impulse and the steady growth of realism.
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| show | Period of English literature 1870-1901; full flowering of movement to realism
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| show | The period around the restoration of the Stuarts in 1660; reflects the reaction against Puritanism, receptiveness to French influence, and dominance of classical points of view.
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| show | Interval between 1750 and 1798. Neoclassicism was yielding to Romanticism. An interest in the past, in the primitive, and in the literature of the folk was developing.
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| show | 1625-1660; also the Puritan Age, because during the period, Puritan standards prevailed in England, and also because the greatest literary figure it was named for was a Puritan. The puritans struggled for righteousness and liberty
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| Age of Reason | show 🗑
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| show | Period in England 1798-1832; Wordsworth and Coleridge published Lyrical Ballads and ended in 1832 with the death of Scott.
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| show | Ended with the "second revolution" and represented by the ascendency of Jacksonian democracy. 1765-1830. Revolutionary ideas gave way to Federalists.
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| show | Period of English literature beginning in 1914 (WWI) and ended by 1965; strenuousness of WWI, then uncertainty.
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| show | The period between the death of Victoria in 1901 and the beginning of WWI in 1914. Attitude of criticism and questioning.
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| show | During the reign of James I of England 1603-1625. Breach between puritan and cavalier widened. Growth of cynicism. Followed Elizabethan age.
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| show | 1500 - 1557; Literary experimentation and importation from French and Italian; Tottel's Miscellany published; Saint Thomas More and Sir Thomas Elyot were important figures.
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| show | Age of Charles I of England (1625-1642) and the spirit of the court. Covers Cavalier/Puritan literature or the royalist group.
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| show | Period in England between the replacement of French by Middle English as the language of court and early appearance of definitely Modern English writings 1350-1500
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| show | Period in England between invasion by the Teutonic tribes around 428 and establishment of Norman rule around 1100 following conquest by William the Conqueror.
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| show | Period between the execution of Charles I in 1649 and restoration under Charles II in 1660. Only significant new drama was "The Siege of Rhodes" by Davenant; a lot of prose written, such as Milton and Hobbes
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| show | Specifically refers to the age of the emperor that it was named after (27 BC to AD 14); notable for perfection of letters and learning; applied to other eras when literary culture was high
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| show | Last half of the 18th century in England, earlier called the Age of Johnson. Interval between 1750 and 1798 is a seed field for emerging romantic qualities in literature; originality of individual talent.
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| show | 1940-1965 English literature. Elizabeth II crowned 1952. Weakened foreign influence and major internal economic and political problems.
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| show | 1950s America, strong emphasis on traditional roles, suburban living, adherence to social norms.
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