Title: Past into present : an anthology of British and American literature
Abstract: Prologue: aims reading understanding critical appreciation character and language. Part 1 From the beginning: Old English - Battle of Maldon Middle English - Geoffrey Chaucer 15th century prose - Sir Thomas malory creative writing modern English chronology how have you got on? quiz. Part 2 The English Renaissance: poetry drama - William Shakespeare thee Elizabethan period prose - the Humanists Elizabethan prose chronology creative writing how have you got on? crossword. Part 3 The first half of the 17th century: the Metaphysical poets prose the Civil War - Milton, Marvell and the Cavalier poets chronology writing how have you got on? word search. Part 4 After the Restoration: diaries satire in verse literary criticism satire in prose the development of the novel the comedy of manners chronology creative/critical writing how have you got on? noughts and crosses. Part 5 The Romantic revival: poetry the novel the Lake poets (Wordsworth) Samuel Taylor Coleridge poetry - the later Romantics critical writing chronology creative writing how have you got on? quiz. Part 6 The Victorian age: the early and middle period (1837-1870) some Victorian literary themes - childhood work death and grief writing the Victorian novel the Americans more Victorian themes - men and women evolution critical writing chronology creative writing how have you got on? who is it? Part 7 Into the 20th century: the late Victorian period (1870-1901) the path to aestheticism the labour movement more Victorian themes - nature Europeans in Africa Henry James - Americans in Europe Rupert Brooke and Georgian poetry war writing chronology how have you got on? anagrams. Part 8 Modern times: new poety fiction the 20s in Britain writing the USA after World War I the Depression a new naturalism anti-Utopianism and fear World War II and after disillusion and the Angry Young Men American and its search for itself feminism recent years writing chronology literary terminology how have you got on?
Publication Year: 1990
Publication Date: 1990-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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