Post on 17-Dec-2015
INTRO TO BRIT. LIT.SURVEY
Just a quick overview of what is to come…
“ENGLAND”
Early Celtic
Old English
Medieval , Middle
English
Early Modern +• Renaissance• Restoration• Romantics• Victorians
GROUPINGS OF THE LIT.
Rome prior it all
Invasions
Oral tradition origins
Drastic change
Political influence
Mixed languages
CELTIC AND OLD ENGLISH
MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE
RESTORATION & ROMANTICS
19TH C NOVEL
Austen, Dickens, Mary Shelly
Dickens, Bran Stroker, HG Wells
VICTORIANS & MODERN
Kipling, IF
Oscar Wilde
Robert Louis
Stevenson
Thomas Hardy
James Joyce
Virginia Wolfe
MORE
George Orwell
Tolkien
Anthony Burgess
Ian Flemming
Roald Dahl
Douglas Adams