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Antiquity
Middle ages
Renaissance
Enlightenment
The Romantic era
Realism/Naturalism
Modernism/Postmodernism
Elizabethan era 1558-1603
Georgian era 1714-1837
Regency era 1795-1837
Victorian era 1837-1901
Eras English Eras
Regency era
Georgian era
Elizabethan era
Victorian era
1564-1616
1775-1871
Jane Austen
William Shakespeare
1558-1603
1714-1837
1795-1837
1837-1901
English renaissance
The Elizabethan era is considered the height of
English renaissance.
It is a time period that coincides with the reign of Elizabeth 1. 1558-1603
The English renaissance was different from the pan-european renaissance
in that the English focuses
on literature and music.
Society during this time
England's population doubled in size
Prices rocketed, rents followed
Intellectual revolution
Religious revolution
So the literary revival of the time occurred in a society rife with tensions, uncertainties, and competing versions of order and authority, religion and status.
Shakespeare
William Shakespeare 1564 -1616
"He is not of an age, but for all time"
- Ben Jonson
Poet, dramatist and actor
Certain things are know about Shakespeare,
other things are shrouded in mystery.
"The Lost years" 1585-1592
Shakespeare
Globe theatre
Totus mundus agit historiem
"All of the world is a stage"
Flags
The Pit & The galleries
Shakespeare
Timeless, retellings, adaptations
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The romantic era
The revolutions:
United states (1776)
The French (1798)
The industrial
The rise of liberal movements and the state's counterrevolutionary measure
Radical ideas were brought forth in pamphlets
and in demonstrations:
reform, suffrage, abolitionism, atheism
Jane Austen
1775-1871
Four novels where published during her lifetime:
Sense and sensibility, Pride and prejudice, Mansfield park and Emma.
Two were published after her death: Persuasion and Northanger Abbey.
Jane Austen
Trend breaker
Free indirect discourse - the inner thoughts of her characters
She is active during what we would lable the romantic era and during realism, the English regency era.
She does not fit the characteristics of the eras she is active in.
She wrote anonymously - "By a lady".
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Jane Austen
Realism
Art and literature should depict reality.
Ordinary people, ordinary settings.
The authors convey reality by
details, details, details!
Realism in England is also called the Victorian era
Society at this time
Queen Victoria reigned between 1837-1901
The Victorian era.
England was a class-based society
The right to vote was growing in numbers and suffragettes were fighting for Women's right to vote
"The British Empire"
Building and ruling
Charles Dickens
1812-1870
The greatest writer of the Victorian era
had a humble background. His father ended up in debtor's prison after some financial troubles and Dickens had to start working in a shoe factory at the age of 12.
He later learned to take stenography and used that skill to become a journalist.
Two major events shaped his later authorship.
Charles Dickens
His works include: Oliver Twist, The Pickwick club. Nicholas Nickleby, A tale of two cities, Great expectation and
A Christmas carol.
His style and the quality of his writing could appeal to many, both the simple and the sophisticated.
Serialized in magazines
And he became in his own lifetime
immensely popular
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Dickensian
The Brontë Sisters
Charlotte
Emily
Anne
Branwell Brontë?
The Brontë Sisters
Charlotte Brontë
1816-1855
wrote under the pseudonym Currer Bell.
Famous for
Jane Eyre
The Brontë Sisters
Emily Brontë
1818-1848
wrote under the pseudonym Ellis Bell.
Famous for
Wuthering heights
The Brontë Sisters
Anne Brontë
1820-1849
wrote under the pseudonym Acton Bell.
Famous for
Agnes grey &
The tenant of Wildfell hall
Modernism
New inventions and new ideas
World Wars and a Pandemic
New voices and untraditional values
Individualism, experimentation, symbolism
absurdity and formalism
Inte en pipa?
En bok!
Beat Generation
or Beatniks
The term was coined by the author Jack Kerouac in 1948 to mark the difference between his generation and the so called Lost-generation of which Ernest Hemingway is an example.
Beat in the meaning of tired, down and out
but also beat as in the rhythm of Jazz music
and beat as in beatific.
By calling it the beat generation
he marked a change in style.
Jack Kerouac
1922-1969
Maybe best known for On the road and
Dharma bums.
Influenced by a longing for freedom, eastern religion
and experiments with form and language.
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Sylvia Plath
1932-1963
Most known for The Bell Jar and her poetry.
She suffered from bipolar disorder and that had consequences for her writing.
Was married to Ted Hughes.
She commited suicide
Dyra och goda råd av Jonathan Unge och Bianca Meyer
Ted Hughes och Sylvia Plath
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