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1. Medieval Literature (c. 500–1500)
Key Works: Beowulf, Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
Features: Religious texts, epic poetry, chivalric romance, and folklore
2. The Renaissance (c. 1500–1660)
Key Writers: William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, John Milton
Features: Humanism, classical influences, poetry (sonnets), drama, and exploration of individualism
3. The Enlightenment / Neoclassicism (c. 1660–1790)
Key Writers: Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson
Features: Reason, order, satire, wit, and moral instruction
4. Romanticism (c. 1790–1830)
Key Writers: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley
Features: Emotion, nature, the supernatural, individualism, and rebellion against rationalism
5. Victorian Literature (c. 1837–1901)
Key Writers: Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde
Features: Realism, social critique, industrialization, morality, and gothic fiction
6. Modernism (c. 1900–1945)
Key Writers: Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence
Features: Stream of consciousness, fragmentation, alienation, experimentation in form
7. Postmodernism (c. 1945–present)
Key Writers: Samuel Beckett, Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan
Features: Playfulness, metafiction, unreliable narrators, skepticism towards grand narratives
8. Contemporary Literature (c. 1980–present)
Key Writers: Zadie Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hilary Mantel
Features: Multiculturalism, globalism, identity, technology, and postcolonial themes
Windrush Generation Literature (c. 1948–Present)
Key Themes: Migration, racism, identity, belonging, cultural heritage.
Notable Writers & Works:
Sam Selvon – The Lonely Londoners (1956)
George d – The Emigrants (1954)
Andrea Levy – Small Island (2004)
Linton Kwesi Johnson – Mi Revalueshanary Fren (2002)
Zadie Smith – White Teeth (2000)
