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LITERATURE, Language changes, Tyndale's New Testament (1525) - first…
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Language changes
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By the end of the 16th century, English became the language of learning
The Renaissance : many word were coined which did not survive.
- Introducing prefixes and suffixes
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Vowels became to be spelled in a more predictable way: (double-vowel convention [soon], silent -e [name], double consonant sound [sitting]
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Renaissance pronunciation: symbols were used to show where to breathe, how long to pause and how to use emphasis & rythym
Thou or You? --> You became the norm instead of ye. Ye and thou forms were restricted to archaic, religious or literary contexts.
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Romanticism (early 1800s)
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads (1798)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Lord Byron
Victorian Literature (1837–1901)
Charles Dickens – Great Expectations, Oliver Twist
Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Thomas Hardy
Themes: industrialization, social reform, morality
American Renaissance (1830s–1860s)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman
Herman Melville – Moby-Dick
Modernism (early 1900s–1945)
Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce – experimental styles
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway
Postmodernism (1945–1980s)
George Orwell – 1984
Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Samuel Beckett
Contemporary Literature (1980s–present)
Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro
Margaret Atwood, Colson Whitehead, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary (1755)
First major comprehensive English dictionary.
Helped standardize spelling and definitions.
Influenced formal written English for centuries.
The Fall of “Thou” and “Thee” (1700S-1800s)
“You” replaces “thou/thee” in most contexts.
Reflects shift toward social neutrality, and simplification.
“Thou” survives mainly in poetry, religious texts, and regional dialects.
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languages used: Anglo-Saxon/Old English, Old Norse (with Vikings raids) + Latin
Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night
John Milton: Paradise Lost (1667)
-Explores themes of temptation, free will, the fall of man.