CHAPTER THREE
The Seventeenth Century up to the Restoration (1601-1660) Jacobean Drama /129 JACOBEAN DRAMA Q.20. Discuss the element of decadence in Jacobean drama. (Agra 1964) Or Q. Write a note on Jacobean drama. (Rohilkhand 1979) – r : (Himanchal 1989) Q. Write a short essay on any one of the following:- (b) Jacobean Drama (and five […]
<strong>CHAPTER TWO</strong>
The Sixteenth Century THE INFLUENCE OF THE RENAISSANCE ON ENGLISH LITERATURE Q.8. Trace the impact of the Renaissance on Elizabethan literature. (Rohilkhand 1988) Or Q. Discuss the impact of the Renaissance on the literature of the Elizabethan era. (Puravanchal 1992) Or Q. Bring out the influence of the Renaissance on English literature. (Garhwal 1991, Gorakhpur […]
<strong> CHAPTER ONE</strong>
Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century THE AGE OF CHAUCER Write a brief essay on one of the following :- (a) The age of Chaucer. (and four more topics) (Agra 1988) Or ”Chaucer’s world was medieval, yet it was also the world of the coming Renaissance shaken and stimulated by new ideas’. Discuss. (Rohilkhand 1984) Or […]
CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE (Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century). 1 2. The Age of Chaucer 3 3. Chaucer as a Representative and Chronicler of his Age 9 3. Chaucer as a Realist ,• > .\. . • 16 4. Chaucer and the Common People 22 5. Chaucer’s Contribution to English Language and Literature 27 6. Fifteenth-Century English […]
A History of English Literature by T Seng
Contents Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century The sixteenth Century The 17th Century up to Restoration The 17th century after the restoration The Eighteenth Century The Romantic Age The Victorian Age The Twentieth Century Important Literary Works after 1700 Important Literary works from 1701 to the present day
CpartHI
An Introduction, A Complete View of * The Anglo-Saxon Period > The Anglo-Norman Period * The Renaissance Period > The Age of Pope * The Romantic Age > The Victorian Age > The Modern Age > The Contemporary (Today) Period Introduction English Literature is one of richest literatures of the world. Being the literature of […]
Appendix
<Historicof, Sociaf, q^efi^ious ^d cpofiticaf qjadcgrouraf Qf (English literature 1. The Medieval Period The Medieval Period in English history and literature has been divided into two periods-(a) The Anglo-Saxon Period (600-1066) and (b) The Middle English Period or Anglo-Norman Period (1066-1500). (a) The Anglo Saxon Period (600-1066) Before the Roman conquest of Britain (classical name […]
Conclusion
We have now come to the end of the journey. In the first part of the book the general theory of literature has been dealt with giving the reader the basic information about the essential elements- in literature. In the second part of the book the development of English literature from its early beginning from […]
The Contemporary period (1939 to £Joda-£)
The end of the Second World War in 1945 did not make the world a peaceful place. When atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan in 1945, people understood that the whole world could end at any moment. There was now a Cold War between communist countries and the West which ended […]
Modern Novelists
The novel of the Victorian period had social themes. The novel of the twentieth century has more personal, individual themes. But at the same time as the novel examines the problems of the individual, it also becomes an examination of the tvhole world. England is no longer the main scene – many writers use the […]