"Literary period" suggests: works produced within a similar time span each period has its own set of characteristics stemming from shared "system of norms" which include such things as intellectual, linguistic, religious, and artistic influences.
Literary Periods
What do we mean by "literary period"
Age of Reason appr. 1685 - 1815
The Enlightenment
followed the Renaissance: 1400s-1600s age of REASON ➡️ science and knowledge no more 👻(superstition), ❓ (ignorance) and ⛪ (religious extremism) confidence & optimism equal rights (but not for women and slaves...?)
The Enlightenment - appr. 1685 - 1815
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (Joseph Wright - 1768)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Gulliver's Travel by Jonathan Swift Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Enlightenment
Key elements of The Enlightenment:
Being Natural - appr. 1770 - 1850
The Romantic Period
age of NATURALISM no more 🧠 (reason) and ⚗️(science) alone our best guide is the ❤️ imagination & nature poetry and gothic stories
The Romantic Period -appr. 1770 - 1850
The Hay Wain - John Constable 1821
poem "London" by William Blake poem "Song to the Men of England" by Percy Bysshe Shelley Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
The Romanic Period
Draw your best Frankenstein's monster:
Being Realistic - 1837 - 1901
The Victorian Age
age of REALISM The Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840 Duality economic progress vs. abject poverty stability vs. urban misery righteousness vs. class division hypocrisy
The Victorian Age - 1837 - 1901
Old Hetton Colliery, Newcastle
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Victorian Era
What were some elements of Victorian workhouses?
Fragmentation & alienation
Modernism 1900 - Post-modernsim 1945 -