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450-1066
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Old English/Anglo-Saxon Period
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written literature devloped from oral tradition
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Old English/Anglo-Saxon Period
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Beowulf, German epic poem
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Old English/Anglo-Saxon Period
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Caedmon and Cynewulf, two poets who wrote on biblical themes
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Old English/Anglo-Saxon Period
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1066-1500
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Middle English Period
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first age of secular literature
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Middle English Period
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Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
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Middle English Period
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Middle English Period
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Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur
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Middle English Period
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1500-1660
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Renaissance
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rebirth of classical ideals of architecture, music and thought
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Renaissance
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England became world power
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Renaissance
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rise of merchantilism
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Renaissance
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Enclosure acts
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Renaissance
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Thomas More
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Renaissance
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1558-1603
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Elizabethan Age (Renaissance)
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medieval tradition blended with Renaissance optimism
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Elizabethan Age (Renaissance)
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major styles were lyric poetry, prose and drama
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Elizabethan Age (Renaissance)
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William Shakespeare
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Elizabethan Age (Renaissance) and Jocobean Age (Renaissance)
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Edmund Spenser
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Elizabethan Age (Renaissance)
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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Elizabethan Age (Renaissance)
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Ben Jonson
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Elizabethan Age (Renaissance) and Jocobean Age (Renaissance)
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1603-1625
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Jacobean Age (Renaissance)
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sohphisticated, sombre, conscious of social abuse and rivalry
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Jacobean Age (Renaissance)
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rich prose and drama
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Jacobean Age (Renaissance)
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John Donne
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Jacobean Age (Renaissance)
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Francis Bacon
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Jacobean Age (Renaissance)
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Thomas Middleton
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Jacobean Age (Renaissance)
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1625-1649
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Caroline Age (Renaissance)
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elegance and refinement
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Caroline Age (Renaissance)
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last dramatists to write in Elizabethan tradition
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Caroline Age (Renaissance)
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Cavalier Poets who wrote about courtly love
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Caroline Age (Renaissance)
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Sons of Ben: Richard Lovelace and William Davenant
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Caroline Age (Renaissance)
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1649-1660
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Commonwealth Period/Puritan Interregnum (Renaissance)
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theatres closed down
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Commonwealth Period/Puritan Interregnum (Renaissance)
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lack of drama
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Commonwealth Period/Puritan Interregnum (Renaissance)
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John Milton's political writings and Paradise Lost
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Commonwealth Period/Puritan Interregnum (Renaissance) and Restoration (Neoclassical/Enlightenment), respectively
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Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan
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Commonwealth Period/Puritan Interregnum (Renaissance)
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Andrew Marvell's prose
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Commonwealth Period/Puritan Interregnum (Renaissance)
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1660-1785
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Neoclassical/Enlightenment
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first age of English literary criticism
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Neoclassical/Enlightenment
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known for philosophy, reason, skepticism, wit and refinement
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Neoclassical/Enlightenment
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triumph of reason: human intellect can fix anything, ended when condience in reason was shaken
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Neoclassical/Enlightenment
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Alexander Pope and his heroic couplets
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Augustan Age/Age of Pope (Neoclassical/Enlightenment)
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Jonathan Swift's Gulliver Travels
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Augustan Age/Age of Pope (Neoclassical/Enlightenment)
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1660-1700
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Restoration (Neoclassical/Enlightenment)
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reason and tolerance over religious and political passion
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Restoration (Neoclassical/Enlightenment)
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abundance of prose and poetry
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Restoration (Neoclassical/Enlightenment)
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comedy of manners called " " comedy
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Restoration (Neoclassical/Enlightenment)
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John Dryden (important)
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Restoration (Neoclassical/Enlightenment)
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John Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester
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Restoration (Neoclassical/Enlightenment)
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John Locke
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Restoration (Neoclassical/Enlightenment)
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1700-1745
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Augustan Age/Age of Pope (Neoclassical/Enlightenment)
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satire, skepticism, classical ideas, refinement, clarity, balance of judgement
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Augustan Age/Age of Pope (Neoclassical/Enlightenment)
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Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
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Augustan Age/Age of Pope (Neoclassical/Enlightenment)
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Samuel Richardson's Pamela, a novel of character
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Augustan Age/Age of Pope (Neoclassical/Enlightenment)
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1745-1785
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Age of Sensibility/Age of Johnson (Neoclassical/Englightenment)
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emphasized instinct and feeling over judgement and restraint
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Age of Sensibility/Age of Johnson (Neoclassical/Englightenment)
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sympathy for Middle Ages
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Age of Sensibility/Age of Johnson (Neoclassical/Englightenment)
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Samuel Johnson (important)
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Age of Sensibility/Age of Johnson (Neoclassical/Englightenment)
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early novels of English lanugage: Samuel Richardson's "Clarissa" and Henry Fielding's "Tom Jones"
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Age of Sensibility/Age of Johnson (Neoclassical/Englightenment)
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1785-1830
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Romantic Period
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personal nature, use of feeling, explore nature and supernatural
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Romantic Period
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literature should be spontaneous and free
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Romantic Period
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Gothic literature born
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Romantic Period
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time of crisis in England (Franch Civil Wars, American independance)
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Romantic Period
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beginning of industrialization, poor city conditions
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Romantic Period
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nature becomes an entity to be focused on
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Romantic Period
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high regard for common person's experience
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Romantic Period
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hoped for democratic future but looked with nostalgia on distant past
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Romantic Period
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abundant use of symbolism
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Romantic Period
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads (founder of period)
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Lake Poets (Romantic Period)
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William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads (founder of period)
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Lake Poets (Romantic Period)
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Jane Austen
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Romantic Period
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Lord Byron
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Romantic Period
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Anne Radcliffe
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Gothic (Romantic Period)
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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Gothic (Romantic Period)
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John Keats (important poet)
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Romantic Period
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Lake Poets (what period)
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Romantic Period
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Lake Poets (characteristics)
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nature and sublime
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Lake Poets (authors)
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Wordsworth and Coleridge
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1832-1901
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Victorian Period
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dealt with problems of day, such as Industrial Revolution, early feminist movement, Darwin's theory of evolution
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Victorian Period
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began with REform Bill whiched ended Corn Laws and price amneuvering
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Victorian Period
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rising middle class wanted to rise further because political stability allowed it
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Victorian Period
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concerned with health, correct living and morality
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Victorian Period
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repressive social views regarding sexuality
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Victorian Period
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includes view of negative child-father relationship
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Victorian Period
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Victorian Period
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Elizabeth Barrett
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Victorian Period
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Robert Browning
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Victorian Period
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Matthew Arnold
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Victorian Period
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Charles Dickens's Great Expectations
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Victorian Period
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Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
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Victorian Period
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George Eliot's Middlemarch
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Victorian Period
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Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure
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Victorian Period
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Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
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Victorian Period
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1848-1860
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Pre-Raphaelites (Victorian)
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aimed at returning painting to a style of simplicity and religious devotion that reigned before Renaissance...incorporated into literature
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Pre-Raphaelites (Victorian)
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti and sister Christina
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Pre-Raphaelites (Victorian)
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1880-1900
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Aestheticism and Decadence (Victorian)
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experimentation, opposed dominance of scientific thinking
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Aestheticism and Decadence (Victorian)
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art does not have to teach moral values
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Aestheticism and Decadence (Victorian)
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Oscar Wilde
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Aestheticism and Decadence (Victorian)
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1901-1914
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Edwardian Period
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British empire at its height, but 4/5 England lived in poverty
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Edwardian Period
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attacked social injustice and selfishness of upper class
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Edwardian Period
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George Bernard Shaw
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Edwardian Period
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HG Wells
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Edwardian Period
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William Butler Yeats
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Edwardian Period
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Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
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Edwardian Period
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Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book
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Edwardian Period
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Henry James (American and British)
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Edwardian Period in Britain and Realistic Period in America
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EM Forster
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Edwardian Period
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1910-1936
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Georgian Period
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rural subject matter
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Georgian Period
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Edward Marsh, publisher
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Georgian Period
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1914-1945
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Modern Period
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relativity, uncertainty, ideas about war
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Modern Period
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T.S. Eliot's the Wasteland
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Modern Period and American Modernist Period and The Lost Generation
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James Joyce's a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Modern Period
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Dylan Thomas's Do Not Go Gentle into that Night
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Modern Period
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Seamus Heaney
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Modern Period
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Virginia Woolf
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Modern Period
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Noel Coward
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Modern Period
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Samuel Beckett
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Modern Period
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DH Lawrence
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Modern Period
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1607-1776 (1620-1750)
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Colonial Period
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religious poetry, sermsons, instructive literature
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Colonial Period
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John Winthrop
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Colonial Period
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Cotton Mather
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Colonial Period
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Ben Franklin
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Colonial Period and Revolutionary Age
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Anne Bradstreet's "Upon the Burning of Our House"
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Colonial Period
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Edward's Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God
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Colonial Period
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Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation
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Colonial Period
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1765-1790 (1750-1800)
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Revolutionary Period
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political pamphlets, persuasive writing
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Revolutionary Period
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Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
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Revolutionary Period
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Thomas Paine's Common Sense
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Revolutionary Period
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Federalist Papers, US Constitution
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Revolutionary Period
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Patrick Henry
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Revolutionary Period
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1775-1828
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Early National Period
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beginning of American literature
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Early National Period
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Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Early National Period and American Romantic Period
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James Fenimore Cooper
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Early National Period and American Romantic Period
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Early National Period and American Romantic Period and Dark Romanticism/Gothic
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1828-1865 (1800-1860)
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American Romantic Period/American Renassiance
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more fiction than poetry
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American Romantic Period/American Renassiance
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awareness of history
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American Romantic Period/American Renassiance
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character sketches, slave narratives, short stories
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American Romantic Period/American Renassiance
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value intuition over reasoning, celebrates idnividual, nature, imagination, emotions
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American Romantic Period/American Renassiance
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instill proper behavior for men and women
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American Romantic Period/American Renassiance
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Herman Melville's Moby Dick
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American Romantic Period/American Renassiance
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Whitman's Leaves of Grass
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American Romantic Period/American Renassiance
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Emily Dickinson
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American Romantic Period/American Renassiance and Dark Romanticism/Gothic
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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American Romantic Period/American Renassiance and American Transcendentalism
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlett Letter
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American Romantic Period and Dark Romanticism/Gothic
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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American Romantic Period
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Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
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American Romantic Period
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Henry David Thoreau
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American Romantic Period and American Transcendentalism
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1830-1880
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American Transcendentalism and Dark Romanticism/Gothic
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self-reliance, independence from technology
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American Transcendentalism and Dark Romanticism/Gothic
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American Transcendentalism (authors?)
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Thoreau and Emerson
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man is inherently sinful, nature is mysterious
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American Dark Romanticism/Gothic
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George Lippard
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American Dark Romanticism/Gothic
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1865-1900 (1850-1900)
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American Realistic Period
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focuses on ordinary and commonplace, objective narrator, not idealized
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American Realistic Period
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Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage
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American Realistic Period and Naturalistic Period
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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American Realistic Period
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Twain's Huckleberry Finn
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American Realistic Period
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Kate Chopin's The Awakening
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American Realistic Period
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Edith Wharton's Ethan frome
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American Realistic Period and Modernist Period
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Willa Cather's My Antonia
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American Realistic Period and Modernist Period
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Bret Harte
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American Realistic Period
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Frank Norris
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American Realistic Period
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Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
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American Realistic Period
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1900-1914
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Naturalistic Period
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scientific objectivity, frank writing, heredity and environment control us
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Naturalistic Period
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Theodore Dreiser
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Naturalistic Period
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Jack London
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Naturalistic Period
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1914-1939 (1900-1950)
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American Modernist Period
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thmes of alienation and disillusionment
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American Modernist Period
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experimental: interior monologue, stream of consciousness
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American Modernist Period
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Robert Frost
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American Modernist Period
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William carlos williams
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American Modernist Period
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edna st. Vincent Millay
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American Modernist Period
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ee Cummings
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American Modernist period
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Sinclair Lewis
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American Modernist period
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Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
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American Modernist period
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1920s
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Harlem Renaissance, Jazz Age (American Modernist period)
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Fitzgerald's The Great Gasby
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American Modernist period and the Jazz Age and the Lost Generation
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Hemingways's A Farewell to Arms
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American Modernist period and the Lost Generation
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Tennessee William's The Glass Menagerie
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American Modernist period
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Arthur Miller's The Death of a Salesman
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American Modernist period
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William Faulkner
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American Modernist period
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Eugene O'Neill
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American Modernist period
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blues song, gospel music
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Harlem Renaissance (American Modernist Period)
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superficial stereotypes revealed as complex characters
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Harlem Renaissance (American Modernist Period)
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Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun
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Harlem Renaissance (American Modernist Period)
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Richard Wright's Native Son
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Harlem Renaissance (American Modernist Period)
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Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes were Watching God
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Harlem Renaissance (American Modernist Period)
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Langston Hughes
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Harlem Renaissance (American Modernist Period)
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decadence, Roaring Twenties
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Jazz Age
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1920s-1930s
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The Lost Generation
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disillusionment with WWI, moved to Europe
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The Lost Generation
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Gertrude Stein
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The Lost Generation
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Ezra Pound
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The Lost Generation and Imagism
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Waldo Pierce (painter)
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The Lost Generation
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1950s-persent
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American Postmodernism
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no heroes, unusually humorless, isolation
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American Postmodernism
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feminist and ethnic issues
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American Postmodernism
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values are not permanent
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American Postmodernism
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