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EUROPEAN LITERATURE  Table of contents Renaissance – 1485- 1680 Enlightenment – 1650- 1800 Romanticism – 1798 – 1870 Realism – 1820-1920 Victorian Period – 1837- 1901 Modernism – 1910 – 1965 Post-modernism – 1965- Present RENAISSANCE PERIOD ✓A time of redisc...

EUROPEAN LITERATURE  Table of contents Renaissance – 1485- 1680 Enlightenment – 1650- 1800 Romanticism – 1798 – 1870 Realism – 1820-1920 Victorian Period – 1837- 1901 Modernism – 1910 – 1965 Post-modernism – 1965- Present RENAISSANCE PERIOD ✓A time of rediscovering ancient ideas, focusing on art, science, and human potential. Famous artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.  Important Renaissance Works Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron Petrarch, Canzoniere, Trionfi Sir Francis Bacon, New Atlantis Sir Thomas More, Utopia John Milton, Paradise Lost Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus ENLIGHTENMENT PERIOD ✓ People started using reason and science to question old beliefs and traditions. Thinkers like Voltaire and Rousseau were important.  Important Enlightenment Works Montesquieu, Spirit of the Laws John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Marry Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe Voltaire, Candide Denis Diderot, Encyclopedie ROMANTICISM PERIOD ✓ Focused on emotions, nature, and individual feelings. Writers like William Wordsworth loved to express the beauty of nature.  Important Romanticism Works Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Victor Hugo, Les Miserables Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads Friedrich Schlegel, Lucinde Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust Sir Walter Scott, Tales of the Crusaders Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes and Hero-Worship Chateaubriand, Genius of Christianity Hegel, Phenomenology of Mind REALISM PERIOD ✓Showed everyday life as it really was, without idealizing it. Writers like Leo Tolstoy wrote about ordinary people.  Important Realism Works Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House George Benard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession Charles Dickens, The Adventures of Oliver Twist Claude Bernard, Introduction to the Study of Experimental Science Emile Zola, L'Assommoir Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment Leo Tolstoy, War, and Peace VICTORIAN PERIOD ✓ Time of Queen Victoria’s reign. Literature focused on society, morals, and social change. Charles Dickens wrote about life during this period.  Important Victorian Works Robert Browning Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest George Eliot Elizabeth Barret Browning Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights Thomas Hardy Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist Matthew Arnold Gerard Manley Hopkins Anthony Trollope, Chronicles of Barsetshire Lord Alfred Tennyson MODERNISM PERIOD ✓ Artists and writers broke away from traditional ways of doing things, experimenting with new forms. Famous writers include T.S. Eliot and James Joyce.  Important Modernism Works Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own Leonard Woolf James Joyce, Ulysses Franz Kafka William Butler Yeats, The Tower Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness D. H. Lawrence Alfred Doblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz Hugo von Hofmannsthal POST-MODERNISM PERIOD Questions reality and ✓ embraces complexity, often with humor and irony. Writers like Thomas Pynchon explore this style. Important Post-Modernism Works Vladimir Nabokov, Mother Night John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman VenediktErofeev, Moscow-Petushki Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory George Perec, Life: A User's Manual Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler Alasdair Gray, Lanark: A Life in Four Books Alan Moore, Watchmen Dmitry Galkovsky, The Infinite Deadlock Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum Walter Abish, How German Is It