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Mary Shelley Wollostonecraft (1797-1851)

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Noveliste, editor, travel writer, married to P.B shelley.
«Frankenstein or the modern Promotheus» 1818 => sublime

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John Keats (1795-1821)

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Romantic poet from the 2nd gen. «To Autumn, 1819» or «Lamia»,1819

Negative capability
Capablity of humans to stay in unvertainties, awareness of the existence of parts we do not control

La Belle Dame Sans Merci: The pull of the past / Poem in ballad style

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Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

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Poet, satirist, romantic leading figure,
«Don juan, 1819», she walks in beauty, 1813

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William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

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Older and more reclused than other romantic poets,
Helped to launch the romantic age with Samuel Taylor Coleridge with «Lyrical Ballads»
It defined the aesthetic of romantic literature.
«Lines, composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey»
«Crossing Simplon Pass» (pastoral, idealisation)

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William Blake (1757-1827)

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Poet, painter, printmarker, romantic. More exentric than the others.
«The lamb, the chimney sweeper, the little black boy» and such works

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Lyrical Ballads, 1798

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Wordsworth and Coleridge, published anonymously at first. (Many issues with add-ons)
Normative aspect, setting up rules of romantic language, simplicity, sincerity, the poet with a «special gift»

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Husband to Mary Shelley
Romantic writer:
«Mont Blanc»

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Neo-classicism vs romanticism

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  1. Order, symetry, regularity, rules, ancient models had authority, society is well-governed, academic training is the only way to be a good artist, gardens and landscapes kept under control, human reason and logic as measure of everything
  2. Freedom, originality, genius, feeling, past is mostly an object of aesthetic contemplation and inspo, a refuge. Individual freedom vs social constraints, intuition, imagination, introspection, myths, nature, symbolism, untouched nature, affective responses to it. The exotic, uncanny, supernatural are interesting.
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Edmund burke

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The picturesque and the Sublime
A philosophal enquiry into the origin of the sublime and beautiful (1757)

1790: Reflections on the Revolution in France

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Thomas Paine (1791)

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Rights of Man

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Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)

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Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)
Idem…of Woman (1792)

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Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa)

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1745-1797
Interesting narrative

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Mary Prince (1831)

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History
Slve brought from Jamaica to England

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Queen Victoria

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1837-1901 : reign

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Matthew Arnold

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«Dover Beach», 1867
Victorian period

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Thomas Babington Macaulay
John Stuart Mill

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Victorian period optimistic

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John Ruskin (1819-1900)

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Art critic, criticism of social changes in the victorian period
Conservative

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Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

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Critic, poet of the victorian period
Culture and Anarchy (1869)

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Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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Scottish writer from the victorian period, critical of industrialisation, antipathy against machines

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George Eliot (woman) (1819-)

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Victorian novel writer
Middlemarch (1871)
Very popular,with a male pseudonym
Realism

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Victorian period
Poet, painter and translator
«The Girlhood of Virgin Mary», with 2 sonnets
«The blessed Damozel», 1878
Member of the preraphaelite brotherhood (7 members)

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John Everett Millais

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Victorian period
Painter
Member of the pre raphaelite brotherhood

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William Holman Hunt

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Victorian period
Painter
Member of the pre raphaelite brotherhood

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The Germ

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Pre raphaelite magazine
Victorian period

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Charles dickens
Criticism of the preraphaelite’s painting Victorian period
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Elizabeth Barret Browning
Victorian period Aurora Leigh, 1856 « How do I love thee ». Sonnet
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Christina Rossetti
Preraphaelite wider circle, poet (goblin market, 1862)
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Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre, 1847 Victorian period, novel, awareness of emancipatory movements
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
Victorian Period « The lady of Shalott », 1832
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Oscar Wilde
Important victorian playwright Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1895 The Importance of being Earnest, 1895 Famous dandy figure, victorian period «The Picture of Dorian Grey», 1890
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George Bernard Shaw Dion Boucicauld
Important victorian playwrights The philanderer, 1893 The Octoroon, 1859
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Henrik Ibsen
A Doll’s House => victorian play
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Sarah Stickney
Victorian period Conduct book on women Realm of a woman = her home
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Coventry Patmore
« The Angel in the House » Victorian period (mid XIXe) The angel as opposed to the fallen woman
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Amy Levy (Romance of a Shop, 1888)
Example of the new woman in the victorian period, strive towards emancipation
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George Beau Brummell
Associated with the dandy style in the victorian period
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Walter Pater (1839-1894)
Victorian period Aestheticism and decadence « The Renaissance »
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Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
Victorian period. Theme : imperialism and colonialism « Heart of darkness » (1899) about congo, human psyche, etc
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Leopold II
King of Belgium Owned Congo (personnally) Brutal regime there for its people
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Names of 4 british and irish modernists (20ieth century)
James Joyce Dh Lawrence Wh Auden Wb Yeats
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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Modernist writer Ms Dalloway, 1925 « Kew Gardens », 1919 (illustrated by Vanessa Bell, short story)
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T.S Eliot (1888-1965)
Modernist writer, nobel prize winner « The Love song of J. Alfred Prufroch », 1915
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T.E Hulme
Modernism, british critic, 1924 : predicted modernism as a period of dry, hard, classical verse as contrasted to romantic litterature
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Ezra Pound
modernist writer, example of visuality of modernist poetry « A retrospect », 1918 (imagist poetry) « In a station of the metro », 1916 « L’art », 1916
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Amy Lowell
Example of the visuality of modernist poetry « Opal », 1919
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James Joyce
« Ulysses », 1922 Example for the concept of « stream of consciousness »
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William James
American psychologist who introduced the term « stream of consciousness » in 1890 (useful to modernism)
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W.H. Auden
Musée des beaux-Art, poem about Bruegel the elder’s painting : landscape with the fall of Icarus  Briding period btwn modernism and post modernisn (20ieth century)
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Post war drama
Angry young men (50s) Theatre of the Absurd : 50s-early 60s
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Samuel Backett (1906-1989)
Irish novelist, playwright, etc Theatre of the absurd « Waiting for Godot », 1952
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Harold Pinter (1930-2008) Tom Stoppard (1937-)
Theatre of the absurd ? English poets and playwrights - The birthday party, 1957 / the homecoming, 1964 - Travesties, 1975 / Arcadia, 1993
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George Orwell Aldous Huxley
Landmarks of dystopian writing 1984, 1949 Brave New World, 1932
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Sam Selvon (triniad) VS Naipaul (triniad) Stuart Hall (jamaica)
Authors of the windrush generation - lonely londoners, 1956 .. Hall is a sociologist, research in cultural studies
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Andrea Levy
Author, windrush gen ? Jamaican descent « Small Island » 2004 « The Long Song » 2010
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Monica Ali
Multicultural britain Author of bangladeshi descent « Brick Lane » 2003
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Salman Rushdie
Magic realism, the twentieth century « at the auction of the ruby slippers », 1994 British american novelist and essayist
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Examples of feminist literary studies (1960s-onwards)
Elaine Showalter : A literature of their own, 1977 Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar : The madwoman in the attic, 1979
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Angela Carter (1940-1992)
Feminist writing + magic realism, XXc - « The bloody chamber », 1979, retelling of european fairy tales. (Bluebeard,etc) -« The magic toyshop », 1967
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Dereck Walcott (1930-2017)
New literatures in english, XXe From saint lucia, postcolonial literary theory : Dream on Monkey Mountain, 1967 1964 : A far cry from Africa 1990: Omeros
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J.M. Coetzee (1940-)
New literatures in english, XXe Southafrican australian novelist « waiting for the Barbarians », 1980
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Michael Ondaatje (1943-)
Srilanka-canadian. Poet, fiction writer, etc and filmmaker - In the skin of a lion (1987)
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Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932-2018)
New literatures in english, XXe Trinidad and tobago, british. Fiction and non fiction in english « The Enigma of Arrival », 1987
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Kiran Desal
The inheritance of loss, 2006 Subplot, in india, us
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British postmodernist authors (4)
- Julian Barnes. Flaubert’s Parrot (1984) - A. S. Byatt. Possession(1990) - Ian McEwan. Atonement(2001) - Salman Rushdie. Midnight’s Children (1981)
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Tom Stoppard
« Rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead », 1990 Example of intertextuality and intermediality Adaptation of the classic « Hamlet », 1602 Postmodernism
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Jean Rhys
Rewriting of Jane Eyre (1847) ==> « Wide Sargasso Sea », 1966 Postmodernism
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Michael Cunningham
The Hours, 1998 Spinoff, prequel or sequel example of Mrs Dalloway (1925) Postmodernism
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John Fowles
« The french lieutenant’s woman », 1969 Metafiction, postmodernism
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Daphne du Maurier
« Rebecca », 1938 => novel that was adapted in various media forms during the XXe and in 2020 on netflix => the adaptations are postmodernist.
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Art Spiegelman
Maus comics, 1980 Postmodernism example of the blurring of boundaries
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Jean-François Lyotard
The postmodern condition, 1984 Critic of postmodernism, « all style, no substance ? »
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Jean Baudrillard
Simulacre et simulation, 1981 Critique of postmodernism « Copies of the copy only ? » Concept of the hyperreal
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Frederic Jameson
Postmodernism, or the cultural logic of late capitalism, 1991 Critique of postmodernism Discussion of pastiche vs parody, « pastiche is an emply parody » Examples : the use of history in films
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Zadie Smith (1975-)
British novelist, essayist 21st century « White teeth », 2000 « The Lazy river », 2017-19
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Bernardine Evaristo (1959-)
British Novelist, etc 21st century Girl, woman, other (2019) Crossing national, historical, generic boundaries
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- Ali Smith (1962-) - A.L Kennedy (1965-)
Scottish authors - The accidental, 2005 (+ four seasons 2016-2020) - Paradise, 2004, the little snake, 2018
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Julian Barnes (1946-)
Writer and critic. Fascination with french literature and life. 21st century, also postmodernist Flaubert’s parrot, 1984
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Ian Mcewan (1948-)
Novelist and screenwriter (novels adapted to film) also postmodernist Enduring love, 1997 Atonement, 2001 21st century
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Hilary Mantel (1952-2022)
British writer, historical fiction, about england 21st century. Grotesque, madness, etc Thomas Cromwell series (2009-2020) Every day is Mother’s day series (1985-6)
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John Lanchester
Dystopias today, 21st century The Wall, 2019

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