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British Literature - Coggle Diagram

- - - - epic poem
      - unknown author
      - Scandinavia (around 500-600 AD)
      - heroism and bravery
      - inspired Hobbit
  - - - “the Father of English Literature”
      - The Canterbury Tales
        
        unfinished collection of comic and moral stories
        
        pilgrims tell stories
  - - - Gulliver’s travel - an adventure satire, critique of society, politic system and corruption
    - - Robinson Crusoe
        
        based on the adventures of a Scottish sailor
    - - romanticism - love, hatred, anger
      - fought against Turkish occupation in Greece (hated injustice and oppression)
      - Childe Harold´s Pilgrimage
        
        main heroe - moody, melancholic, bitter
    - - Scottish history
      - Scottish ballads
      - Ivanhoe
        
        the reign of King Richard the Lionheart
    - - Frankenstein (Gothic novel)
    - - first great woman novelist
      - rural England
      - higher middle classes
      - main theme - marriage
      - Sense and Sensibility & Pride and Prejudice
  - - - inspiration for his novels in his own life
      - criticism of society
      - Oliver Twist & David Copperfield
    - - Jane Eyre
  - - - The Hobbit
      - The Lord of the Rings
      - fantasy literature
    - - The Harry Potter series
  - - - Paradise Lost - biblical story about The Fall of Man