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

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George Orwell

Tolkien

Anthony Burgess

Ian Flemming

Roald Dahl

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