Grade 9-Anglo-American Literature

PERIODS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

ROMANTICISM 1800-1860

*Value feeling and intuition over reasoning; Journey away from corruption of civilization and limits of rational thought toward the integrity of nature and freedom of the imagination

Helped instill proper gender behavior for men and women

*GENRE/STYLE: Character sketches; Slave narratives; Poetry; Short stories

Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle and Poems of Walt Whitman

AMERICAN RENAISSANCE/ TRANSCENDENTALISM

1840-1860

(Note overlap in time period with Romanticism -- some consider the anti-transcendentalists to be the"dark"romantics or gothic)

Transcendentalists: True reality is spiritual; Idealists; Self-reliance & individualism

Anti-Transcendentalists: Used symbolism to great effect; Sin, pain, & evil exist

* GENRE/STYLE: Poetry; Short Stories; Novels

* Sample Literary Masterpiece: Poems and essays of Emerson & Thoreau ; Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Black Cat"

REVOLUTIONARY/ AGE OF REASON 1750-1800

*Patriotism grows; Instills pride; Creates common agreement about issues; National mission and the American character.

*GENRE/STYLE: Political pamphlets; Travel writing; Highly ornate style and Persuasive writing

* Sample Literary Masterpiece: Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac

PURITAN/COLONIAL 1650-1750

* Instructive and reinforces authority of the Bible and church.

*GENRE/STYLE: Sermons, diaries, personal narratives ; Written in plain style

* Sample Literary Masterpieces: Rowlandson's "A Narrative of the Captivity" and Edward's "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

GOAL!

AMERICAN LITERATURE

American literature is the literature written or produced in the area of the United States and its preceding colonies. During its early history, America was a series of British colonies on the eastern coast of the present-day United States. Therefore, its literary tradition begins as linked to the broader tradition of English literature. However, unique American characteristics and the breadth of its production usually now cause it to be considered a separate path and tradition.

LITERARY PERIODS IN ANGLO LITERATURE

Modern Period

*English literary modernism developed out of a general sense of disillusionment with Victorian era attitudes of certainty, conservatism, and belief in the idea of objective truth.

*GENRE/STYLE: Modernist novels using

the stream of consciousness technique; Science Fiction

* Sample Literary Masterpieces: The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner and Lady Chatterley’s Lover

by D.H Lawrence

LITERARY PERIODS IN ANGLO LITERATURE

NEO-CLASSICAL PERIOD: Restoration Age:(1660-1700)

Augustan literature (1700-1750) and Age of sensibility: (1750-1798)

* The 18th century literature reflected the worldview of the Age of Enlightenment (or Age of Reason): a rational and scientific approach to religious, social, political, and economic issues that promoted a secular view of the world and a general sense of progress and perfectibility.

* GENRE/STYLE:Pastoral and Mock-heroic

* Sample Literary Masterpiece: Gulliver’s Travel of

Jonathan Swift

LITERARY PERIODS IN ANGLO

LITERATURE

English Renaissance: 1500-1660

a.Elizabethan and Jacobean period (1558-1625)

b. Late Renaissance:1625-60

*The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th and early 16th centuries to the 17th century.

The Renaissance saw the rise of English theatrical drama, most notably William Shakespeare but also from authors such as Christopher Marlowe.

* GENRE/STYLE:Vernacular Literature; Comedy; Tragedy

* Sample Literary Masterpiece: Book of Common

Prayer; Works of William Shakespeare; The Faerie Queene

by Edmund Spenser

LITERARY PERIODS IN ANGLO LITERATURE

*Middle English Literature: 1100-1500

In this period religious literature continued to enjoy popularity and Hagiographies were written, adapted and translated.

* GENRE/STYLE: Romance; Bible Translations

* Sample Literary Masterpieces: The Canterbury Tales

of Geoffrey Chaucer and Sir Gawain and the

Green Knight

LITERARY PERIODS IN ANGLO LITERATURE

Old English Literature (450-1100)

* Encompasses literature written in Old English in Anglo-Saxon England

* GENRE/STYLE :Epic poetry; Hagiography; Sermons; Bible Translations; Chronicles

Sample Literary Masterpiece: Beowulf

ANGLO-AMERICAN LITERATURE

ANGLO OR ENGLISH LITERATURE

A GLIMPSE OF THE PAST

Anglo is a prefix indicating a relation to the Angles, England, the English people, or the English language, such as in the term Anglo-Saxon language. It is often used alone, somewhat loosely, to refer to people of British Isles descent in The Americas, New Zealand and Australia.

Anglo is a Late Latin prefix used to denote English. The word is derived from Anglia, the Latin name for England, and still the modern name of its eastern region. Anglia and England both mean land of the Angles, a Germanic people originating in the north German peninsula of Angeln.