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    This document provides a timeline overview of major periods and developments in European literature from 2000 BC to 1989 AD. It summarizes the key features and seminal texts of 8 periods: Classical, Medieval, Renaissance, Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Victorian, Modernism, and Post-Modernism. The timeline traces the evolution of literature from ancient Greek and Roman myths and oral traditions to modern experimental and postmodern works that question objective truths.

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    Timeline of European Literature

    Classical Period Medieval Period Renaissance Neo-Classicism


    (2000BC-0) (500-1500)
    (1550-1650) (1650-1800)

    main features:
    main features: main features:
    main features: - Age of Enlightenment,
    - all about myths, - mainly in Latin, Chivalry Restoration in England,
    code, OLd English- Middle - Aristotles unities, Classic
    Oral Tradition, myth and heroes, Classical Order, Accuracy and
    English Periods, Christian
    Structure, Religious Solace,
    Fundamental Morality. Period reborn, Finding
    Exploration.
    Religious texts, often place for humans in a
    changing world, Birth of - Science can help
    centered on royalty. understand nature.
    novel, Free expression.

    - Early secular medieval


    - This period was literature often consists of
    home to some of the prayers, sermons, and
    Seminal texts:
    most influential homilies. In King Arthur's - The Renaissance was a
    time, the figure of the king period of significant change - French drama Racine,
    writers in ancient in the history of literature
    attracted the attention of Moliere, Corneille,
    Greece and Rome. early writers. and art. It promoted the
    Among them were Dryden (strict heroic
    rediscovery of ancient couplets).
    Aristotle, Plato, and philosophy and art.
    Virgil.
    Victorian
    Romanticism
    (1850-1900) Modernism Post- Modernism
    (1800-1850)
    (1900-1945) (1945-1989)
    main features:
    - Realism, main features:
    main features: main features:
    Industrialisation, - Nihilism, Rejection of Past,
    - Nature mysterious, Respectability, Here &
    imaginations, beauty, Mortality Emopwering humans, - No single truth, Parody,
    Now. Practical experimentation, Pastiche, Disillutionment with
    & Mutability, Search for the
    sublime, personal emotion & New ways of reaching the same meta-narrative, The world does
    experience. end. Introspection. not offer answers, Meta-
    - Developed into Gothis Period. fictional writing, Boundaries
    During this era, Britain was transformed
    European modernism are crossed.
    from a predominantly rural, agricultural encompassed a wide range
    society to an urban, industrial society of experimental and avant-
    garde literary and artistic Postmodernism is a socio-cultural and
    during this time. Railroads and the steam literary theory as well as a shift in
    - The new role of individual printing press, for example, brought trends in the late perspective that has appeared across a
    thought and personal experience Britons together physically and nineteenth and early wide range of fields, including the
    is the most remarkable element intellectually. twentieth centuries, and social sciences, art, architecture,
    of the poetry of the time. has had a significant literature, fashion, communications,
    impact on contemporary and technology.
    (Western) literature, film,
    and the arts.
    Whereas the main trend in 18th-
    century poetics was to praise the . Although the Victorian era is now known The postmodern change in
    for its prim and conservative moral values, perspective is widely
    general, to see the poet as a acknowledged to have begun in
    spokesman of society speaking to the Victorians saw their world as rapidly
    changing. the late 1950s and is likely to
    a cultivated and homogeneous continue. Postmodernism is
    audience with the delivery of linked to the post-World War
    "truth" as his goal, the II era's power shifts and
    Romantics found the source of dehumanization, as well as the
    onslaught of consumer
    poetry in the particular, unique capitalism.
    experience.

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