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1485 BCE
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
Introduction to the Reformation. The Reformation was a 16th-century movement in western Europe that aimed at reforming some doctrines and practices of the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the establishment of the Protestant churches. -
1200 BCE
THE CLASSICAL PERIOD
Was home to the great works of ancient Greece and Rome. You'll sometimes see the words Greco-Roman or antiquity used to refer to this millennia-old period. -
455 BCE
THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD
Is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (encompassing the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. -
The Enlightenment (Neoclassical) Period
This time period is broken down into three parts: the Restoration period, the Augustan period, and the Age of Johnson -
ROMANTIC PERIOD
Romanticism is characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of all the past and nature, preferring the medieval rather than the classical. It is a reaction to the ideas of the Industrial Revolution, the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment, and the scientific rationalization of nature. -
VICTORIAN PERIOD AND THE 19TH CENTURY
Victorian novels tend to be idealized portraits of difficult lives in which hard work, perseverance, love and luck win out in the end. They were usually inclined towards being of improving nature with a central moral lesson at heart. While this formula was the basis for much of earlier Victorian fiction, the situation became more complex as the century progressed. -
MODERN PERIOD
Occupied the years from shortly after the beginning of the twentieth century through roughly 1965. In broad terms, the period was marked by sudden and unexpected breaks with traditional ways of viewing and interacting with the world. -
POSTMODERN PERIOD
Is a form of literature which is marked, both stylistically and ideologically, by a reliance on such literary conventions as fragmentation, paradox, unreliable narrators, often unrealistic and downright impossible plots, games, parody, paranoia, dark humor and authorial self-reference.
