British Literature

Title/author/year

W.Shakespeare The Sonnets (1609)

W.Shakespeare Romeo&Juliet (mid1590) W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1599)

W.Shakespeare Hamlet (1603)

W.Shakespeare A midsummer's.. (1600)

Canon

Renaissance, Elizabethan age, Humanism

Renaissance, Elizabethan age, Humanism

Renaissance, Elizabethan age, Humanism

Renaissance, Elizabethan age, Humanism

Genre

Historical context

Narrative

sonnet

Elizabeth I (1558*18- young 1603), James I (1603- man, 130 - dark 1625) lady

drama tragedy

point of view of Elizabeth I (1558Romeo and 1603), James I (1603Juliet, 1625) occasionally servants'

tragedy

drama revenge tragedy

Elizabeth I (15581603), James I (16031625)

Elizabeth I (15581603), James I (16031625)

Renaissance, drama Elizabeth I (1558Elizabethan age, comedy 1603), James I (1603Humanism fantasy farce 1625)

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Setting

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14th-15th c, Verona and Mantua

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Themes love, 130 mocks the Petrarchan metaphors-love don't need conceits to be real forcefulness of love, love as cause of violence, indiv. Vs. Society anxiety of Elizabethan England over succession of leadership

late medieval indecision, son and period, mother, Denmark impossibility of certanty, mystery of death, nation as a diseased body

elements of friendship,treacher Ancient Greece y, difficulty of love, and magic, nature of Renaissance dreams, fantasyEngland reality

Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe (1719)

Neoclassical Augustan A. Enlightment Classicism

Title/author/year

Canon

Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels (1726)

Neoclassical Augustan A. Enlightment Classicism

btw 19th &20th Jane Austen c., btw Pride and Prejudice Classicism & (1813) Romanticism

Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights (1847)

Victorian era

dissenters, the self-awareness, adventure restoration, 1st & 3rd person 1659-1694 colonial attitudes, novel novel of colonialism, glorious fictional York, Brazil, fear, human isolation revolution England in autobiography Trinidad island condition,money, 1719 industrialization

Genre

Historical context

Narrative

Setting

Themes

novel satire

England in the 1720s, unreliable England, the Restoration, the author, 1st Lilliput, Glorious Revolution person narrator, Blefescu, and War of Spanish ppl as they Brobdingnag, Succession, Ireland, appear to him Houyhnhnms the Enlightnment

indiv. Vs. Society, limits of human understanding,

comedy of manners, novel of manners

J.A.'s England, the 3rd pers French Revolution and omniscient Napoleonic Wars, n.,Elizabeth's English Regency point of viewsociety indirect speech

1797-1815 Napoleoniv Wars, Longbourn

marriage, love, reputation, class, pride, prejudice and tolerance, change and transformation

The Victorian Age (1837-1901), Illness, Death, Funeral Lockwood, gothic novel, Customs, Literary Nelly(not an realist fiction traditions and omniscient n.) romanticism, Inheritance and social position

1770-1802 Yorkshire moors: Wuthering Heights, Thruschross Grange

the destructiveness of love that never changes, the precariousness of social class, revenge, violence and cruelty, supernatural

Charles Dickens Great Expectations (1861)

Victorian era

social criticism bildungsroma n, autobiographi cal fiction

novella, fairy Lewis Carroll tale, children's Alice's Adventures Victorian period fiction, satire, in W. (1865) allegory

Title/author/year Henry James The portrait of a Lady (1881) Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891)

Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness (1902)

Canon

Genre

industrialization,

1st pers n., n. +protagonist=Pi p

the Victorian Age in England, Victorian views of childhood, the early development of children's literature

3rd pers, occasionally 1st and 2nd pers, anonymous narrator

Historical context

Narrative

Setting

Themes

limited point of view, through the eyes of Isabel

Albany, NY, England, Florence

Americans living in Europe, social and emotional maturation

1880s-1890s Wessex,SW England

social ostracism, men dominating women, fate&chance, God&religion, sex

Realistic period psychological claimed by both Enlightenment ideas realism AM&ENG

Victorian Realism

20th c., Edwardian period, Modernism

Darwin & Social Darwinism,Industrializ omniscient, obj. regional, ation and Rural 3rd pers n. tragic novel England, Women in Anonymous n. Victorian Society

mid19th c., Kent and London

ambition, desire of self-improv.,guilt, innocence, maturation, affection, loyalty, victim, victimization

tragic inevitable victorian era, loss of childhood England, innocence, life as a Wonerland meaningless puzzle

novella, 1st narrator 1876-1892, colonial lit., uses 1st pers pl, Thames River, frame story, Marlow Brussels, adventure European presence in narrates in the Congo Africa, the Ivory tale, romantic 1st pers. Sg. Trade, Belgian traits:symboli atrocities in the sm, Congo supernatural, heroism

civilisation, hypocrasy of Colonialism, madness as a result of imperialism, absurity of evil, race&racism, violence, moral corruption

James Joyce A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

Modernism

E.M. Forster A passage to India (1924)

Modernism

Title/author/year

Canon

Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway (1925)

William Golding Lord of the flies (1954)

Modernism stream of consciousness

Contemporary Age

bildungsroma n, 3rd pers autobiographi Joyce's Ireland: the narrator, cal novel, use historical and political Stephen of stream of context, literary Dedalus' point consciousnes context of view s

psychological Forster's England, the omniscient 3rd novel Indian context pers n.,

Genre

modernist, formalist, feminist

novel, allegory

Historical context

Narrative

anonymous omniscient n., point of view changes the new modern era, constantly:strea WWI m of conscio., free indirect discourse 3rd

1882-1903, Dublin and surrounding area

development of individual consciousness, religion extremism, the role of the artist, the need of Irish autonomy

1910s-1920s, India: Chandrapore, Mau

difficulty of ENGIND friendship,, unity of all living things, muddle of India, negligence of British colonial gov.

Setting

Themes

mid June 1923, flashbacks fragmentary post Bourton WWI England, summer 1890, consiousness, London disillusionment neighborhood with the British E. of Westminster Fear of death, threat of opression

Golding and WWII, the anonymous 3rd geography of a pers n., near future, a tropical island, omniscient, deserted political climate ofthe character's tropical island 1950s inner thoughts

civilisation vs. Barbarism, loss of innocence, innate human evil, good and evil, reason&emotion, morals&morality

John Fowles The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)

Between modernism and postmodernism

Victorian setting, metafiction techniques

Existentialism, the New Woman

narrator has a double vision and double voice

Lyme Regis, Exeter

social constraints, freedom

Motifs

Symbols

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light/dark imagery, opposite points of view

poison, thumbbiting, Queen Mab

incestuous the ghost, desire, Yorick's death and skull suicide, darkness and the supernatura l, misogyny love out of balance, contrast

Theseus and Hippolytaorder, stability

counting, measuring, eating

footprint, cross, crusoe's bower

Motifs

Symbols

LilliputiansB robdingnagi foreign ans, languages, Laputans, clothing Houyhnhnm s

courtship, journeys

Pemberley

doubles, repetition, the moors, conflict btw ghosts nature and culture

crime, criminalitydi sappoin. Expect., weatherdramatic events, doubles

stopped clocks, obj relating to crime and guilt, Satis House, Joe, marsh mist

dream, subversion, garden, curious, mushroom nonsense, confusing

Motifs

Symbols

birds, book Prince, of Genesis, d'Urberville variant family names vault, Brazil darkness, hyperbolic language, inability to find words, upriver vs. Downriver

rivers, fog, women,sev ered heads, maps, ''whited sepulchre", man trying to fll bucket with hole in it

music, flight, prayers, secular songs, Latin phrases

green&mar oon, Emma, the girl on the beach

echo, the Marabar EasternCaves, the Western green bird, architect., the wasp Godbole's song

Motifs

Symbols

the Prime time, minister, shakespear weapons, e,trees&flo old woman wers, waves in the & water window biblical parallels, natural beauty, bullying of the weak by the strong

conch shell, Piggy's glasses, signal fire, the beast, Lord of Flies,boys