The Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Periods 449-1485 English 12 British Literature - Unit One.
The Anglo-Saxon & Medieval Period
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The Anglo-Saxon
&Medieval
Period
Epic PoetryChivalric CodeChaucerKnightsFeudalismPlagueBeowulfKing Arthur
RenaissancePeriod
ShakespeareElizabethan ReignWar of the RosesProtestantismMilton’s Paradise LostSonnetsEngland Controls:
IrelandJamaica, the Bahamas“The Americas”
The Enlightenment & Restoration
The Age of ReasonRevolutionary War in America
Rise in women writersSatire
Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s TravelsIrish Potato Famine
England Controls Scotland (Becoming Great Britain,) Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and India
Romanticism
Tintern AbbeyInspiration from NatureFrankensteinLake PoetsGothic StyleBeethovenEngland Controls:
EgyptSingaporeHong Kong
The Victorian Era
Industrial RevolutionCharles DickensOliver TwistOscar WildeQueen VictoriaChild LaborOvercrowded CitiesCharles DarwinGreat Britain Controls:
South Africa
Modernism Stream of Consciousness
StyleYeatsGeorge Orwell’s 1984Virginia WoolfWorld Wars I and IIImperialismGandhi/ Indian Independence
Treaty of Versailles Gives Great Britain Control over:
PalestineIraq
Contemporary