ELAR - Literature Movements and Periods

Groups of authors writing in a similar styles whose works express similar worldviews. These movements can span different nations

• Literary movements

• Modernism

• Neoclassical

• Contemporary Literature

A general term currently used to describe literature written since the end of the Second World War in 1945. There is no widely agreed upon literary period to describe works written after 1945 because periods are set by scholars long after the era has ended.

• American Literature

• British/English Literature

• Contemporary Literature

• Renaissance

The literary movement that championed nature, romantic love, the individual, and the imagination.

Literary period that shifted the focus of literature from society and its demands to the feelings of the individual.

Literature Works from the romanticism literary period

• Hamlet (ca. 1600) by William Shakespeare

• The Canterbury Tales (ca. 1400) by Geoffrey Chaucer

• Lyrical Ballads (1798) by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843) by Edgar Allan Poe "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843) by Edgar Allan Poe

• The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The literary movement that called for a break from traditional values and style, concentrating on the interior lives of characters.

• Romanticism

• Modernism

• Neoclassical

• transcendentalism

Often used stream of consciousness and other recently developed literary techniques to engage with a world being transformed by industry and modern society.

Modernism often used stream of consciousness and other recently developed literary techniques to engage with a world being transformed by industry and modern society.

• Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce

• Great Expectations (1860) by Charles Dickens

• The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf

Era of English literature written in Old English featuring poetry with Christian and heroic themes; the early era of medieval literature in England (500-1066)

Beowulf (ca. 750) Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (ca. 890)

500-1066