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Literary periods - Coggle Diagram
Literary periods
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The Romantic
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Society/history
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Revolutions: USA (1776), France (1789)
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Charcteristics
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Freedom of genre, of language, of love, from rules
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Fascination with death, the exotic and the mysterious, the unusual
Idealising the past, children, women, beauty
Feelings/emotions, passion! :<3:
NAture is good: Poets went out in nature, home reflecting and produced a poem: giving back to nature
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The outsider = romanticised, intriguing
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The Enlightenment
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Society/history
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Middle class of merchants developing, manufacturers
More people wanted education, but school is not obligatory
Coffee houses, reading clubs and debate societies
Reform! FIght injustice, lack of knowledge, CHARITY
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The Printing press: more books, newspapers, magazones
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Girls are taught soft subjects: dance, grace, moral, manners, cards, decoration, religion
Religious tolerance: God as creator, but not micro-managing people.
Arranged marriages, but considering the match
Characteristics
Order and civility, proper manners
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Rationality, rather than feeling: A Wish to fiight superstition
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Man in society/civilisation: the outsider = a madman, an egoist
The Victorian Era
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Society/history
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Reforms relating to housing standard, working hours, safety , child labour and obligatory education
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Communication; the telegraph, the railroad
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Modernism
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Characteristics
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Experimentation
In art, literature, drugs, language
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Post modernism
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Society and history:
WWII
Holocaust, Hiroshima snd Nagasaki
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POPular culture, popular music
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