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Period
Anglo-SaxonAge (450-1066)MedievalAge(1066-1485)EnglishRenaissance (1485-1625)Enlightenment (1625-1790)Romantic Age(1790-1830)VictorianAge (1830-1900)Modernism(1900-1945)Post-Modernism(1945-present)
Literature
BeowulfCanterbury TalesArthurianRomanceMacbethParadiseLostFrankenstein,Rime of AncientMarinerHeart of Darkness,Dr. Jekylland Mr.Hyde1984GrendelIntellectual,political,cultural,“truthcandidates” TribalwarlordsGermanicPaganismDruidicCultureEarlyChristianityHeroicIdealDivineRightAbsoluteMonarchyFeudalism/HierarchyMagnaCartaCatholicismPtolemaicUniverseChivalriccode/CourtlyLoveConstitutionalMonarchyHumanismProtestantReformationPre-ChristianclassicismSeculartheaterCopernicanUniverse Telescope/PrintingpressEnglish civilWarParliamentarygovernmentMonism/DeismDemocratic(secular)humanismNewtonianUniverseRationalityScientificMethodAmerican/French revolutionsConstitutionalDemocracyDeification of natureGothicismEarlyFeminismImagination/IndividualismAnti-rationalism“Noblesavage”Imperialism/BritishpowerCulturalConservatismSensibility/ProprietyExploitationvs. justiceDarwinNascentExistentialismIndustrialRevolutionFascism/CommunismWorld War/HolocaustExistentialism/AtheismFreudianPsychoanalysisSolipsismConfusion/Alienation/FragmentationMarxismCold warNuclearpower andthe bombPost-colonialismRelativismand theotherCivil rights/ImmigrationSpaceexplorationComputerrevolutionScientific
 
Materialism/NihilismMultiple Choice questions- Romantic to ModernismPeriod matching Questions- everything
Romanticism—study guide
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Schama Romantic Age Video
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Frankenstein
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Poetry of Coleridge
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Kubla Kahn
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Poetry of Blake
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Songs of innocence
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Proverbs of hell
Victorian Age—study guide
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Schama Victorian Age video
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Hear of Darkness
Modernism study guide
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1984
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As soon as the A-bomb drops this period begins
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Orwell is influenced by World wars
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 This is a bloody time period
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Freud
 
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Gives vocab to psychology
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Allows writes in the modern time to go inside the character’s mind
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Solipsism
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 You can only know truth in your mind
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 There is no external truth
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 This is often negative
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Marxism in 1984
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 The common man (the proles) will overthrow the government
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Confusion/Alienation/Fragmentation
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Winston has these qualities within his life and society
Romanticism SchamaGothicism
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Imitative, grotesque form of Medievalism
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 Themes
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 The mysterious, the fantastic the psychologically terrifying
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 The supernatural the mock religious, the transgressive
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Gothicism as a response to the dissolution of “order” (king and church)
Science fiction
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Speculative fiction rooted loosely in the laws of probability as understood through the naturalsciences
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 Themes
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Moral implications of human knowledge/potential “truth through science
Romanticism
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 The French revolution was occurring next door
 The people could and would take back their rights
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Rousseau
Reshaped the mental habits of an entire generation

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