English history and literature. Vol. 2

Presentazione CHAPTER 1 Historical context - The American Revolution CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF EVENTS Literary context - The Pre-Romanticism 1) Poetry 2) Prose Great Writers 1) William Blake Questions Answers and explanations CHAPTER 2 Historical context - The Industrial Revolution CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF EVENTS Literary context - The Romanticism 1) Poetry 2) Prose Great Writers 1) William Wordsworth 2) Samuel Taylor Coleridge 3) George Gordon Byron 4) Percy Bysshe Shelley 5) John Keats 6) Walter Scott 7) Jane Austen Questions Answers and explanations CHAPTER 3 Historical context - The Victorian Age CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF EVENTS Literary context - The Victorian literature 1) Poetry 2) Prose Great Writers 1) Alfred Tennyson 2) Robert Browning 3) Elizabeth Barrett Browning 4) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 5) William Morris 6) Charles Dickens 7) William Makepeace Thackeray 8) The Brontà«s (Charlotte, Emily, Anne) 9) George Eliot 10) Oscar Wilde Other Authors 1) Thomas Carlyle 2) Thomas Babington Macaulay 3) Benjamin Disraeli 4) Edward Fitzgerald 5) Elizabeth Gaskell 6) Charles Reade 7) Anthony Trollope 8) Arthur Hugh Clough 9) Charles Kingsley 10) John Ruskin 11) Matthew Arnold 12) Coventry Patmore 13) Wilkie Colins 14) George Meredith 15) Christina Georgina Rossetti 16) Lewis Carroll 17) James Thomson 18) Algernon Charles Swinburne 19) Walter Pater 20) Thomas Hardy 21) Gerard Manley Hopkins 22) Robert Louis Stevenson 23) Arthur Conan Doyle Questions Answers and explanations CHAPTER 4 Historical context - The 20th Century: the First World War CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF EVENTS Literary context - The First Half of the 20th Century 1) Poetry 2) Prose 3) Drama Great Writers 1) Thomas Stearns Eliot 2) Joseph Conrad 3) James Joyce 4) Virginia Woolf 5) David Herbert Lawrence Other Authors 1) Henry James 2) George Bernard Shaw 3) William Butler Yeats 4) Rudyard Kipling 5) Ford Madox Ford 6) William Somerset Maugham 7) Edward Morgan Forster 8) Aldous Leonard Huxley 9) Evelyn Arthur Waugh 10) George Orwell 11) Graham Greene 12) Wystan Hugh Auden Questions Answers and explanations CHAPTER 5 Historical context - The 20th Century: from the Second World War to the End of the Millennium CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF EVENTS Literary context - The Second Half of the 20th Century: Anger, Absurd and Modern Writing 1) Poetry 2) Prose 3) Drama Great Writers 1) Samuel Beckett Other Authors 1) William Golding 2) Lawrence Durrell 3) Angus Wilson 4) Anthony Burgess 5) Muriel Spark 6) Doris Lessing 7) Iris Murdoch 8) Philip Larkin 9) John Braine 10) Kingsley Amis 11) John Barrington Wain 12) Alan Sillitoe 13) Thom Gunn 14) Ted Hughes 15) Harold Pinter 16) Tom Stoppard 17) Ian McEwan Questions Answers and explanations GLOSSARY