OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE (7-11th c)
Anglo-Saxon period
The Song of Beowulf (700) - brave life of a pagan hero
MIDDLE ENGLISH (11-15th c.)
Geoffrey Chaucer (1345-1400) - Canterbury Tales
frame story
THE RENAISSANCE (16th c.)
DRAMA
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
Life, sonnets, why so important
Comedies: Much Ado about Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night´s Dream
Tragedies: Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet
Historical plays: Richard II, Henry IV, Julius Caesar
THE RISE OF THE NOVEL (17th c.)
Jonathan Swift - (1667-1745) - satire
A Modest Proposal (1729)
Gulliver´s Travels (1726)
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
Moll Flanders (1722)
Robinson Crusoe (1719)
Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
Joseph Andrews (1743)
Jonathan Wild the Great (1743)
Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749) - 1st English novel
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1760-1837)
Lake Poets:
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Lyrical Ballads (with Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Hours of Idleness - first poem
Childe Harold´s Pilgrimage
Don Juan - the longest satirical poem in English
Percy Byshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Prometheus Unbound
John Keats (1795-1821)
Odes, Endymion, Hyperion
PROSE
Gothic novels - Ann Radcliffe
Jane Austen (1775-1817) - realistic novel
Pride and Prejudice
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Historican novels
Waverly, Talisman, Ivanhoe
VICTORIAN PERIOD (1837-1901)
Topics: negative features of the rich bourgeoisie, misery of poor people
Critical realism, naturalism
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Life - reflection in his books
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Oliver Twist
David Copperfield
Little Dorrit
Nicholas Nickleby
Great Expectations
Emily Bronte (1811-1848)
Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)
Jane Eyre
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
naturalism
Far From the Madding Crowd (1874)
Tess of the D´Urbervilles (1891) - masterpiece
Jude the Obscure (1895)
Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Conan Doyle - the character of Sherlock Holmes
Edgar Wallace
DRAMA
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) - novel
The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose - fairy tales
Plays:
The Importance of Being Earnest
An Ideal Husband
Lady Windermere´s Fan
BRITISH LITERATURE - 20th CENTURY
PROSE
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) - The Jungle Book
John Galsworthy (1867-1933) - Forsyte Saga
Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim
H.G. Wells - The Time Machine, The Invisible Man
Aldous Huxley - Point Counter Point, Brave New World
D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers
Lady Chatterley´s Lover
Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
Mrs. Dalloway
James Joyce
Dubliners
Ulysses - stream of consciousness
Angry Young Men:
John Wain - Hurry on Down
John Braine - Room at the Top
Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim
Women - Iris Murdoch, Doris Lessing
DRAMA:
G.B. Shaw (1856-1950) - satire
Widower´s Houses
Mrs. Warren´s Profession
Pygmalion
John Osborne (AYM) - Look Back in Anger
Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
CONTEMPORARY BRITISH NOVEL
Kingsley Amis - Ending Up (1974)
Jake´s Thing (1978)
Old Devils (1988)
John Wain - Winter in the Hills (1970)
William Golding - Lord of the Flies (1954) - masterpiece
John Fowles - The Collector (1963)
The French Lieutenant´s Woman
CAMPUS NOVEL
(Amis - Lucky Jim)
Malcolm Bradbury - Eating People is Wrong, The History Man
David Lodge - The British Museum is Falling Down
Changing Places (1975)
Small World (1984)
Women:
Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, Doris Lessing, Margaret Drabble, Beryl Bainbridge
New names:
Martin Amis, Peter Ackroyd, William Boyd, Kazuo Ishiguro
Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses (1988)
AMERICAN LITERATURE
Puritan literature - not of high literary value, mostly documents
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) - Declaration of Independence
Benjamin Franklin (17O6-1790) - political documents
19th century
PROSE
Symbolism: Herman Melville - Mobby-Dick (1851)
AMERICAN HUMOUR:
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910)
Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer
The Prince and the Pauper
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur´s Court
POETRY
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Romanticism
The Raven
Crime stories
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Leaves of Grass - patriotism
20th century
Realism + Naturalism
Muckrakers - deep social criticism
Frank Norris, Stephen Crane
Jack London (1876-1916) - The Call of the Wild
Martin Eden - authobiographical features
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) - The Jungle
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) - An American Tragedy - naturalistic school
Novel after WWI
Lost Generation
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961)
short style, theory of the ice-berg
The Sun Also Rises (= Fiesta)
A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea
Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
This Side of Paradise
Tales of the Jazz Age
Tender is the Night
The Great Gatsby
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
East of Eden
Novel after WWII
About the war:
Norman Mailer - The Naked and the Dead
Joseph Heller - Catch 22
Jerome D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
William Styron - Lie Down in Darkness
Sophie´s Choice
Beat Generation:
William Burroughs - Junkie
Jack Kerouac - On the Road
POETRY
Beat Group:
Allen Ginsberg - Howl and Other Poems
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Gregory Nunzio Corso
DRAMA:
Eugene O´Neill (1888-1953)
Mourning Becomes Electra
Desire Under the Elms
William Saroyan - plays + short stories
Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman