Periods of ENGLISH LITERATURE by BELANI ASMARA HADI - 3B2

Periods of English Literature

Periods in literature are named for rulers, historical events, intellectual or political or religious movements, or artistic styles.

In general, there are 8 periods of English Literature, Old English Period (5th-11th century), Middle English Period (12th-15th century), Renaissance (16th-17th century), Augustan Age (18th century), Romantic Period (first half of 19th century), Victorian Age (second half of 19th century), Modernism (first to Second World War), and Postmodernism (1960s and 1970s).

-The Old English or Anglo Saxon Period, the earliest period of English literature, is regarded as beginning with the invasion of Britain by Germanic (Anglo-Saxon) tribes in the 5th century AD and lasting until the French invasion under William the Conqueror in 1066.
-The Middle of English Period, a number of texts from various literary genres have been preserved. The long list includes lyrics poetry and epic "long poem" with religious contents, such as Piers Plowman (c. 1367-1370).
-The English Renaissance is also called the early new English Period, a term which focuses o the history of the language, and the Elizabethan Age (Queen Elizabeth I) or Jacobean Age (King James), division based on political rule. Particularly notable in this period is the revival of classical genres, such as the epic with Edmund Spenser's (c. 1552-1599).
-In Augustan Age period (which also referred to as the Eighteenth Century,the Neoclassical, or Golden Age), classical literature in literary theory were adapted to suit contemporary culture.
-Romanticism marks the beginning of a new period in traditional English Literary history. One of the most important representative of English Romanticism is William Blake (1757-1827). Romanticism is commonly considered to be the beginning of a new period in which nature and individual, emotional, experience play an important role.
-In the Victorian era (1837-1901), the novel became the leading form of literature in English. Most writers were now more concerned to meet the tastes of a large middle class reading public than to please aristocratic patrons. The best known works of the era include the emotionally powerful works of the Brontë sisters, the satire Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, and the realist novels of George Eliot.
-Modernism discovered innovative narrative techniques such as stream-of-consciousness or structural forms such as collage and literary Cubism. Modernism innovations manifest themselves under the influences of psychoanalysis and other cultural-historical phenomena.
-In Postmodernism, modernist issues regarding innovative narrative techniques are taken up again and adapted in an academic, sometimes formalistic way.Narrative techniques with multiple perspectives, interwoven strands of plot and experiment in typography characterize the texts of this era.

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