Literary Periods + Conventions

What literary period spans between 1500 - 1660?

Renaissance

What literary period spans between 1558 - 1603?

Elizabethan

What literary period spans between 1603 - 1625?

Jacobean

What literary period spans between 1660 - 1700?

Restoration

What literary period spans between 1785 - 1832?

Romantic

What literary period spans between 1832 - 1901?

Victorian

What literary period spans between 1914 - 1945?

Modern

What literary period spans between 1945 - 2000?

Post-modern

What literary period spans between 2000 - present?

Contemporary

What are key concepts of the renaissance period?

Rebirth, enlightenment + technological advancement

What are key concepts of the Elizabethan period?

The golden age, patronage + morality

What are key concepts of the Jacobean period?

Religion, metaphysical ideas + dark themes

What are key concepts of the Restoration period?

Liberation, experimentation + neoclassicism

What are key concepts of the Romantic period?

Nature, Industrial Revolution + love

What are key concepts of the Victorian period?

Supernatural / gothic, treatment of women / children + technological advances

What are key concepts of the Modernist period?

Self-reflection, breaking with tradition + innovation

What are key concepts of the Post-modern period?

Fragmented narratives, skepticism + broken state of society (binary opposition)

Where did the renaissance originate from?

Florence, Italy

What is a prominent Jacobean theme used in Shakespears’s Othello?

Revenge