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๐Ÿ“šBritish Literature12 chapters

Old & Middle English (500 TO 1300 AD)

Introduction to Anglo Saxon PeriodFREE
Important Works of Anglo Saxon Period
Introduction to Anglo Norman LiteratureFREE
Important Works of Anglo Norman Period

Age Of Chaucer (1300 TO 1400 AD)

Introduction to the Age of ChaucerFREE
Geoffrey Chaucer
William Langland
John Wycliffe
John Mandeville
John Gower
Thomas Hoccleve
John Lydgate
John of Trevisa

Age of Revival (1400 to 1550 AD)

Introduction to Age of Revival
Printing in England: William Caxton
Popular Bible Translations
Robert Henryson
William Dunbar
Thomas Wyatt
Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey)
Sir David Lyndsay
John Skelton
Roger Ascham
Thomas More
Thomas Malory
Richard Tottel
William Tyndale
Miles Coverdale
Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Elyot
Nicholas Udall
Desiderius Erasmus

Elizabethan Age (1550 to 1600 AD)

Introduction to Elizabethan Age
History & Background of English Theatre
Early Elizabethan Plays
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Thomas Norton & Thomas Sackville
Thomas Nashe
Thomas Kyd
John Lyly
Robert Greene
George Peele
Thomas Lodge
John Heywood
John Still
Edmund Spenser
Philip Sidney
George Gascoigne
Michael Drayton
Francis Bacon
Richard Hooker
Stephen Gosson
Samuel Purchas
Lewis Bayly
Walter Raleigh
Richard Hakluyt
John Knox
John Foxe
William Camden
Raphael Holinshed

Civil War & Interregnum (1640 to 1660)

Introduction to Civil War & Interregnum Period
John Milton
Lucy Hutchinson
Margaret Cavendish
John Bunyan
Sir Thomas Browne
Jeremy Taylor
Richard Baxter
Thomas Fuller
Izaak Walton
Gerrard Winstanley

Jacobean & Caroline Age (1600 to 1640)

Introduction to Jacobean & Caroline Age
King James I
Robert Burton
Robert Cawdrey
Ben Jonson
John Webster
Thomas Middleton
Thomas Heywood
Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher
George Chapman
Thomas Dekker
John Marston
Philip Massinger
James Shirley
Cyril Tourneur
William Rowley
George Villiers
John Ford
John Donne
Andrew Marvell
George Herbert
Abraham Cowley
Henry Vaughan
Thomas Carew
Richard Lovelace
Robert Herrick
John Suckling
Francis Quarles
William Cartwright
Richard Corbet
Thomas Randolph
Edward Herbert (Lord Herbert of Cherbury)
Richard Crashaw
Sir William Davenant
Edmond Waller

Restoration Age (1660 to 1700 AD)

Introduction to Restoration Age
Samuel Pepys
Thomas Rymer
Jeremy Collier
John Evelyn
William Dampier
William Congreve
Aphra Behn
William Wycherley
George Etherege
Thomas Otway
John Vanbrugh
George Farquhar
Nahum Tate
Colley Cibber
John Dryden
Samuel Butler
John Gay
John Wilmot (2nd Earl of Rochester)

Enlightenment Age (1700 to 1800 AD)

Introduction to Age of Enlightenment
Samuel Johnson
Jonathan Swift
Joseph Addison
Richard Steele
James Boswell
Oliver Goldsmith
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Daniel Defoe
Laurence Sterne
Henry Fielding
Samuel Richardson
Tobias George Smollett
William Beckford
William Blake
Alexander Pope
Thomas Gray
Robert Burns
James Thomson
Thomas Chatterton
Thomas Percy
Robert Blair
William Cowper
William Collins
George Crabbe
Edward Young
Thomas Parnell
Matthew Prior
Sarah Catherine Martin

Romantic Age (1800 to 1850 AD)

Introduction to Romantic Age
William Wordsworth
John Keats
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lord Byron
Robert Southey
John Clare
John Stagg
Jane Taylor & Ann Taylor
William Miller
Joanna Baillie
Anna Yearsley
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L)
Charlotte Smith
Mary Robinson
Felicia Hemans
Charles Lamb (Elia)
Mary Lamb (Bridget Elia)
William Hazlitt
Thomas De Quincey
Leigh Hunt
Walter Savage Landor
Hannah More
Jane Austen
Walter Scott
Mary Shelley
Frances Burney (Fanny Burney)
Ann Radcliff
William Godwin
Horace Walpole
Thomas Love Peacock
Maria Edgeworth
Matthew Gregory Lewis
Charles Maturin

Victorian Age (1850 to 1900 AD)

Introduction to Victorian Age
Robert Browning
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Christina Rossetti
Gerard Manley Hopkins
A.C. Swinburne
William Morris
Robert Williams Buchanan
Edward Carpenter
Arthur Hugh Clough
John Keble
Alfred Austin
Coventry Patmore
Edward Fitzgerald
Charles Dickens
Thomas Hardy
George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans)
William Makepeace Thackeray
Charlotte Bronte
Anne Bronte
Rudyard Kipling
Anthony Trollope
Emily Bronte (Ellis Bell)
Elizabeth Gaskell
Wilkie Collins
Robert Louis Stevenson
Samuel Butler
Benjamin Disraeli
R.M. Ballantyne
Bram Stoker
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
Arthur Conan Doyle
George Meredith
Jerome K. Jerome
George Gissing
Charles Kingsley
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Charles Reade
Matthew Arnold
Thomas Carlyle
John Ruskin
Walter Pater
Thomas Babington Macaulay
John Henry Newman
Henry Mayhew
John Richard Green
Harriet Martineau
Oscar Wilde
A.W. Pinero

Modern Age (1900 to 1950 AD)

Introduction to Modern Age
Virginia Woolf
D.H. Lawrence
James Joyce
E.M. Forster
Joseph Conrad
George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
Graham Greene
Evelyn Waugh
Aldous Huxley
Arnold Bennett
H.G. Wells
Ford Maddox Ford
C.S. Lewis
Wyndham Lewis
Elizabeth Bowen
J.M. Barrie
Arthur Koestler
C.P. Snow
L.P. Hartley
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
May Sinclair
Nevil Shute
George Bernard Shaw
John Galsworthy
John Millington Synge
Seรกn O'Casey
J.B. Priestley
T.S. Eliot
W.B. Yeats
W.H. Auden
Dylan Thomas
Stephen Spender
Cecil Day-Lewis
Louis MacNeice
Robert Graves
Wilfred Owen
Siegfried Sassoon
Robert Bridges
John Masefield
A.E. Housman
Stevie Smith
Arthur Symons
Sidney Keyes
Alun Lewis
Rupert Brooke
Harriet Monroe
Edward Thomas
Alfred Noyes
H.H. Munro (Saki)
Katherine Mansfield
Lytton Strachey
Winston Churchill
John Strachey
Harriet Shaw Weaver
Dora Marsden

Post Modern & Contemporary Age (1950 onwards)

Introduction to Post Modern Age
William Golding
Somerset Maugham
Doris Lessing
Kingsley Amis
Ian McEwan
Peter Ackroyd
Malcolm Bradbury
John Fowles
David Lodge
A.S. Byatt
Jeanette Winterson
Agatha Christie
Christopher Isherwood
Graham Swift
Martin Amis
John Wain
Anthony Burgess
Iris Murdoch
Allan Sillitoe
Angela Carter
Eoin Colfer

๐Ÿ“šLiterary Theory12 chapters

New Criticism

What is New Criticism?
Cleanth Brooks
W.K. Wimsatt & Monroe C. Beardsley
John Crowe Ransom
R.P. Blackmur
Allen Tate
Mark Schorer
Paul H. Fry
I.A. Richards
William Empson
F.R. Leavis
Q.D. Leavis
R.S. Crane
Robert Penn Warren
Wayne C. Booth
Elder Olson

Formalism

What is Formalism?
Victor Shklovsky
Roman Jakobson
Boris Eikhenbaum

Structuralism

What is Structuralism ?
Ferdinand De Saussure
Roland Barthes
Mikhail Bakhtin
Claude Levi-Strauss
Vladimir Propp
Charles Sanders Pierce
Tzvetan Todorov
Jonathan Culler
Gerard Genette
Michael Riffaterre
Valentin Voloshinov
A.J. Greimas

Post Structuralism & Deconstructionism

What is Post Structuralism & Deconstructionism?
Michel Foucault

Post Modernism

Psychoanalysis Criticism

Archetypal Criticism

Reader-Response Theory

Marxism

Postcolonial Criticism

New Historicism

Critical Race Theory (CRT)

๐Ÿ“šLiterary Criticism7 chapters

Greek Critics

Roman Critics

Middle Age Critics

Enlightenment Age Critics

Romantic Age Critics

Victorian Age Critics

Modern Age Critics

๐Ÿ“šLiterary Movements7 chapters

Literary Movements associated with Renaissance

Literary Movements associated with Enlightenment Age

Literary Movements associated with Romantic Age

Literary Movements associated with Victorian Age

Literary Movements associated with Modern Age

Literary Movements associated with Post Modern Age

Literary Movements associated with Literary Theory and Critcism

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