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ENGLISH LITERATURE - Coggle Diagram
ENGLISH
LITERATURE
late 18th-
mid 19th century
the Romantic
age
reaction against the
industrial revolution
Jane Austen
Pride and
Prejudice
social irony
critics of conventions
status of women
18th - 19th
century
the Gothic novel
gloomy atmosphere
sinister settings
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Faust myth
moral responsibility
of science
Edgar Allan
Poe
the Black Cat
irrational mind
perversity
subconscious
guilt and
paranoia
1837 - 1901
the Victorian age
industrial progress
victorian compromise
(social reforms/
extreme poverty)
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
(Oliver asks for more)
poverty
injustice
childhood innocence
Hard Times
(a classroom definition
of a horse)
anti-utilitarianism
dehumanization
Oscar Wilde
the Picture of
Dorian Gray
aestheticism
the double
hedonism
early 20th
century
the Modern age
trauma of WWI
psychoanalysis
Owen
Dulce et
Decorum est
brutal realism
anti-heroism
“old lie”
Sassoon
a Soldier’s
Declaration
political criticism
sacrifice of
soldiers
James Joyce
Eveline
paralysis
duty vs freedom
epiphany
Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway
subjective time
identity
mental health
a room of one’s own
gender inequality
female autonomy
Dystopia and
the Absurd
George Orwell
Animal Farm
corruption of ideas
totalitarianism
russian revolution
1984
totalitarianism
loss of
individuality
Samuel Backett
Waiting for Godot
the absurd
problem of time
loss of language