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Medieval 500-1500: Candide Falls in Love With The Baron's Young Daughter)

The document outlines major literary periods from Medieval (500-1500) through Postmodernism (1965-today) and provides 1-3 key works from each period. The Medieval period includes Beowulf, The Song of Roland, and The Nibelungenlied. The Renaissance period includes works by Shakespeare and Milton. The Enlightenment saw works by Franklin, Voltaire, and Rousseau. The Romantic period included Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, and Hawthorne. The Transcendental movement included works by Emerson and Thoreau. Major works of the Victorian era included Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Crime and Punishment. Realism, Naturalism

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Medieval 500-1500: Candide Falls in Love With The Baron's Young Daughter)

The document outlines major literary periods from Medieval (500-1500) through Postmodernism (1965-today) and provides 1-3 key works from each period. The Medieval period includes Beowulf, The Song of Roland, and The Nibelungenlied. The Renaissance period includes works by Shakespeare and Milton. The Enlightenment saw works by Franklin, Voltaire, and Rousseau. The Romantic period included Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, and Hawthorne. The Transcendental movement included works by Emerson and Thoreau. Major works of the Victorian era included Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Crime and Punishment. Realism, Naturalism

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Medieval 500-1500

Beowulf (circa 1000)


The Song of Roland (circa 1100)
The Nibelungenlied (circa 1200)
The Story of the Volsungs (circa 1300)
Geoffrey Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales circa 1390)

Renaissance (1500-1670)

William Shakespeare (born 1564)


The Faerie Queene (1590) – Edmund Spenser
Romeo and Juliet (1597) – William Shakespeare
Macbeth (1603) - William Shakespeare
Paradise Lost (1667) – John Milton

Enlightenment (1700-1800)

Poor Richard’s Almanac (1733) Benjamin Franklin (book of weather forecasts)


Encyclopedie (1750) – Denis Dedirot (The Encyclopédie is most famous for representing the
thought of the Enlightenment)
Candide (1759) – Voltaire (Candide falls in love with the baron's young daughter)
Emile (1762) – Jean Jacque Rousseau (Treatise of the nature of education or nature of man)

Romantic Period (1798 – 1870)

Lyrical Ballads (1798) - William Wordsworth


Frankenstein (1818) – Mary Shelley
Don Juan (1819-1824) – Lord Byron
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The Scarlet Letter (1850) – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby Dick (1851) – Herman Melville
Leaves of Grass (1855) – Walt Whitman (is a collection of poetrywritten over Walt Whitman's
entire lifetime organized thematically into sections.)
Transcendental Movement (1830-1860)

Nature (1836) – Ralph Waldo Emerson (poem emphasizes the unity of all manifestations of
nature, nature's symbolism, and the perpetual development of all of nature's forms toward the
highest expression as embodied in man.)

The American Scholar (1837) - Ralph Waldo Emerson (Originally titled "An Oration Phi Beta
Kappa Society, an honorary society of male college students with unusually high grade point
averages. At the time, women were barred from higher education, and scholarship was
reserved exclusively for men. )

Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845) – Margaret Fuller

Civil Disobedience (1849) – Henry David Thoreau (Thoreau's Civil Disobedience espouses
the need to prioritize one's conscience over the dictates of laws. It criticizes American
social institutions and policies, most prominently slavery and the Mexican-American
War.)
Walden (1854) – Henry David Thoreau

Victorian period (1837-1901)

Jane Eyre (1847) – Charlotte Bronte (story of young orphan girl)


Wuthering Heights (1847) – Emily Bronte
In Memoriam (1849) – Lord Tennyson (Their friendship was further solidified )
Men and Women (1855) – Robert Browning
Silas Marner (1861) – George Eilot
Crime and Punishment (1866) – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Realism (1820 -1920)

Madame Bovary (1857) – Gustave Flaubert


The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916) – Vicente Blasco Ibanez

Naturalism (1870 -1920)

Ethan Frome (1911) – Edith Wharton


The Red Badge of Courage (1895) – Stephen Crane
McTeague (1899) – Frank Norris
Sister Carrie (1900) – Theodore Dreiser
The House of Mirth (1905) - Edith Wharton

The Bloomsbury group (1903-1964)

Howard’s end (1910) – E. M. Forster


Eminent Victorians (1918) – Lytton Strachey

Existentialism (1850 –Today)

Nausea (1938) – Paul Sartre


The Stranger (1942) – Albert Camus
Waiting for Godot (1949) – Samuel Beckett

The Beat Generation (1945-1965)

Howl (1956) – Allen Ginsberg


On the Road (1957) – Jack Kerouac
Naked Lunch (1959) – William Burroughs

Modernism (1910-1965)

The Metamorphosis (1915) – Franz Kafka


Prufrock and other Observations (1917) – T.S. Eliot
Hymen (1921) – Hilda Doolittle
The Waste Land (1922) – T.S. Eliot
The Hollow Men (1925) - T.S. Eliot
The Great Gatsby (1925) – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Tower (1928) –William Butler Yeats
A Farewell to Arms (1929) –Ernest Hemingway
The Sound and the Fury (1929) – William Faulkner
The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1948) – Ezra Pound
POST Modernism (1965 – today)

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