ERAS

Anglo-Saxon Period

Heroism, Fate, Loyality, Exile

Medieval Period

Morality, Pilgrimage, Social Satire

Renaissance Period

Humanism, Virtue, Beauty, Ambition, Free Will vs. Fate

Enlightenment Period

Reason, Satire, Social Order, Morality

Romantic Period

Emotions, Nature, Imagination, Individualism, Sublime

Victorian Period

Social Class, Industrialization, Morality, Science vs. Faith, Empire

Modernist Period

Fragmentation, Alienation, Identity Crisis

Themes from Ireland Literature

Nationalism, Identity, Exile, Mythology

Themes from the Caribbean Literature

Colonialism, Cultural Hybridity, Identity, Displacement

Themes from African Literature

Colonial Impact, Traditional vs. Modernity, Identity, Displacement

Themes from Indian Literature

Postcolonial Identity, Hybridity, History, Politics

Irish Authors

W.B Yeats, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney

Caribbean Authors

Derek Walcott, Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid

African Authors

Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Ngugi Wathiong'o

Indian Authors

Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, R.K. Narayan

Modernist Authors

Virginia Woolf, T.S Eliot, James Joyce

Victorian Authors

Charles Dickens, Brontes sisters, Thomas Hardy

Romantic Authors

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Mary Shelly

Enlightenment Authors

Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope

Renaissance Authors

William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Phillip Sidney, Ben Johnson

Medieval Authors

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

Anglo Saxon Story

Beowulf (oral epic)

Anglo-Saxon Styles

Oral Tradition, Alliteration, Kennings

Medieval Styles

Allegory, Religious Influence, Rise of Vernacular English

Renaissance Style

Sonnets, Drama, Epic Poetry

Enlightenment Style

Structured Forms, Heroic Couplets

Romantic Style

Reaction against Enlightenment Rationalism, Focus on the Personal and Natural World

Victorian Style

Grapples with Modernity, Empire, and Social Change

Modernist Style

Streams of Consciousness, Nonlinear Narratives

Ireland Literature Significance

Grapples with Colonial History and Culture Revival

Caribbean Literature Significance

Voices of Resistance and Cultural Reclamation

African Literature Significance

Critiques Colonialism and Asserts Indigenous Cultures

Indian Literature Significance

Explores India's Colonial Past and a Multicultural Identity