LITERARY PERIODS OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE

BRITISH LITERATURE THROUGH TIME

600-1200 Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Beowulf

1200-1500 Middle English
KING ARTHUR

Geoffrey Chaucer 

1500-1660 The English Renaissance
 
1500-1558 Tudor Period Humanist Era
Thomas More, John Skelton 

1558-1603 Elizabethan Period High Renaissance
Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare



1603-1625 Jacobean Period Mannerist Style (1590-1640) other styles: Metaphysical Poets; Devotional Poets
Shakespeare, John Donne, George Herbert, Emilia Lanyer

1625-1649 Caroline Period
John Ford, John Milton  

1649-1660 The Commonwealth & The Protectorate Baroque Style, and later, Rococo Style 
Milton, Andrew Marvell, Thomas Hobbes
  
1660-1700 The Restoration
John Dryden 

1700-1800The Eighteenth Century The Enlightenment; Neoclassical Period; The Augustan Age
Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson


1785-1830 Romanticism The Age of Revolution
William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, Jane Austen, the Brontës



1830-1901 Victorian Period Early, Middle and Late Victorian
Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Robert Browning, Alfred, Lord Tennyson 

1901-1960 Modern Period The Edwardian Era  (1901-1910); The Georgian Era  (1910-1914)
G.M. Hopkins, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot

1960- Postmodern and Contemporary Period
Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, John Fowles, Don DeLillo, A.S. Byatt

LITERARY PERIODS OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE

SHAKESPEARE
ROMEO AND JULIET
ROMEO AND JULIET
MUCH ADDO ABOUT NOTHING
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
TWELFTH NIGHT
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
HAMLET
A MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT DREAM
MACBETH
THE TEMPEST
JULIUS CAESAR
KING RICHARD III
JONATHAN SWIFT
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
DANIEL DAFOE
ROBINSON CRUSOE
MOLL FLANDERS
OSCAR WILDE
THE CANTERVILLE GHOST
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GREY
THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE
THE SELFISH GIANT
THE HAPPY PRINCE
CHARLES DICKENS
THE PICKWICK PAPERS
OUR MUTUAL FRIEND
DAVID COPPERFIELD
OLIVER TWIST
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
TALE OF TWO CITIES
HARD TIMES
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT
MARK TWAIN
THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
JANE AUSTEN
NORTHANGER ABBEY
EMMA
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
PERSUASION
MANSFIELD PARK
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
BRIDE AND PREJUDICE (INDIAN VERSION)
THE BRONTËS
JANE EYRE
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
THE SCARLET LETTER
WASHINGON IRVING
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
THE RED CIRCLE
HERMAN MELVILLE
MOBY DICK
EDGAR ALAN POE
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
THE RAVEN
THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE
SCOT FITZGERALD
THE GREAT GATSBY
E. M. FORSTER
A ROOM WITH A VIEW
HOWARDS END
MAURICE
WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD
THOMAS HARDY
THE WOODLANDERS
D. H. LAWRENCE
WOMEN IN LOVE
SONS AND LOVERS
W. M. THACKERAY
VANITY FAIR 
HENRY JAMES
THE BOSTONIANS
THE TURN OF THE SCREW
THE HEIRESS
ELIZABETH GASKELL
WIVES AND DAUGHTERS
RETURN TO CRANFORD
EDITH WARTON
THE BUCCANEERS  
STELLA GIBBONS
COLD COMFORT FARM