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LITERACY PERIODS - Coggle Diagram
LITERACY PERIODS
Neoclassicism
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Augustan Age
(1700-1745)
Writers of this period deliberately compared themselves to the poets of Rome’s “golden age” under Emperor Augustus
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Gothic
Characteristics
It blends horror, architecture,
mystery, and intense emotion
The supernatural enters literature, and reason steps aside
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Birth
In 1764, Horace Walpole translated a “recent discovered” Italian manuscript: The Castle of Otranto
Introducing key elements like ancestral prophecy, decaying architecture, and supernatural interventions
Romanticism
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Known works
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We are Seven, Simon Lee, The Thorn (Wordsworth)
Victorian
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Characteristics
Focus on daily life, socialclasses, and personal morality.
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