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450
Old English 450-1066
This period is known like Anglo-Saxon literature encompasses the surviving literature written in Old English in Anglo-Saxon England that include genres such as epic poetry, hagiography, sermons, Bible translations, legal works, chronicles and riddles. -
1066
Middle English 1066-1500
English experienced different variations and developments after the period of old English due because there were significant changes in their vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation and spelling. During the period of Middle English, many grammatical features of old English were simplified like Inflections of nouns, adjectives and verbs by reducing. In addition, there were changes in pronunciation, particularly with long vowels and diphthongs. -
1500
English Renaissance 1500-1660
The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th to the early 17th century. The dominant art forms of the English Renaissance were literature and music. -
Puritan 1653-1660
The Puritans were English Protestants who sought to purify the Church of England from Roman Catholic practices. The Puritans were not satisfied with the limited scope of the English Reformation by forming several religious groups advocating greater purity of worship and doctrine, as well as the personal and corporate piety. becoming an important political force in England coming to power as a result of the First English Civil War. -
Restoration age 1660-1700
During this period there were several changes in life and literature due corruption was rampant in all walks of life, morality was in decline, the king was surrounded by corrupt and degenerate ministers. also that he had several lovers and numerous children.
During the Restoration period there was a rapid development of science as with rational research, Scientific and objective perspective. On the other hand, French manners and fashion extended from the court to the aristocracy. -
18th Century 1700-1798
The 18th century was known as the Age of Reason because they had a rational and scientific approach to religious, social, political and economic issues. Promoting a vision and sense of progress and perfectibility directed by the philosophers Isaac Newton, Descartes , John Locke and Francis Bacon who They considered the state as an instrument of adequate and rational progress. that later led to deism and also contributed to the subsequent reaction of romanticism. -
Romanticism 1798-1837
Romanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. During this period natural poetry prevailed where romantics generally made meditations on "an emotional problem or personal crisis" -
Victorian 1837-1901
In this period the novel became the leading literary genre in English because in it the women played an important role as authors and as readers, in addition to narrating about the abuses of government and industry, the suffering of the poor, which is not benefited from the economic prosperity of England. -
Modern Literature 1901-1940
The modern literature was an important literary movement that occurred in the first decades of the new century and that was influenced by the ideas of Charles Darwin (1809–1882), Ernst Mach (1838–1916), Henri Bergson (1859–1941), Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), James G. Frazer (1854–1941), Karl Marx (1818-1883) (Das Kapital, 1867) and the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), among others. -
Post Moderns 1940-2000
Postmodern literature is the continuation of the modernist period based on fragmentation, paradoxes, and questionable narratives, etc. Postmodern literature, such as postmodernism as a whole, is difficult to define and there is little agreement on the exact characteristics, what can be mentioned are some postmodern writers as the most representative such as Americans Henry Miller, William S. Burroughs, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, Truman Capote, and Thomas Pynchon. -
Contemporany
a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from about 1945 to the present.
After 1945, science began a transformation as with spaceflight, nuclear technology, laser and the technology itself were developed alongside molecular biology and genetics, particle physics, and the standard model of quantum field theory. Meanwhile, the first computers were created, followed by the Internet, beginning with the information age.
