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Oral medieval literature: Beowulf, Geoffrey Monmouth and the

Arthurian legend, Geoffrey Chaucer
Shakespeare & Elizabethan Drama
Great Britain in the XVIIIth century:
The Restoration (Stuarts Age); the Enlightment: the age of Pope
(Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe etc.); the Rise of the novel: the Age of
Johnson (Samuel Richardson; Laurence Sterne); the Pre-romantic period
and the gothic novel (Horace Walpole; Ann Radcliffe)
Historic configuration of the USA: The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel
Hawthorne) and The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane). Also:
Edgar Allan Poe; Herman Melville; Washington Irving
The industrial revolution in England. Charles Dickens
Romanticism in Great Britain: Novel and Poetry. Poetry: William Blake,
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Lord Byron; Percy
Bysshe Shelley, John Keats// Novel: Sir Walter Scott, Jane Austen, Mary
Shelley; terror novelists: Horace Walpole; Anne Radcliffe
The Victorian Novel: the Brnte sisters; Charles Dikens; William
Makepeace Thackeray; George Eliot; Thomas Hardy; Henry James;
Joseph Conrad; Rudyard Kipling
Irish dramatists: Oscar Wilde and Bernard Show
Novel, tale and poetry in the USA: Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe
and Walt Whitman
Humour: Mark Twain, Henry James and cosmopolitanism
Lost generation: Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway,
William Faulkner
Irish authors: Sean OCasey and James Joyce
The United Kingdom in the interwar period and during the second world
war: Hugh Auden, Dylan Thomas and Yeats (poetry); David Lawrence,
Virginia Woolf, Edward Morgan Forster, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell,
Graham Green; James Joyce
UK and Ireland since 1945: Dylan Thomas, Ted Hughes (poetry), Bertolt
Brecht, Samuel Becket, John Osborne and Harold Pinter (theatre);
William Golding, Graham Greene, George Orwell and J. Tolkien (prose)
USA since 1945: Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton; Sylvia Plath, Allen
Ginsberg, John Ashbery (poetry); Eugene ONeill, Tenessee Williams,
Arthur Miller (drama), Katherin Anne Porter, Vladimir Nabokov, Toni
Morrison, Alice Walker, J.D. Salinger, John Updike
Northamerican hard-boiled novels: Dashiell Hammett and Raymond
Chandler// Detective English Novel: P.D. James
The Commonwealth: E.M. Forster, Doris Lessing and Nadine Gordimer