영문학사 요약(English)

목차

1. The Beginnings of English: Old and Middle English 600-1485
2. The Renaissance 1485-1649
3. The Commonwealth and Restoration 1649-1713
4. Augustan to Gothic 1713-1789
5. The Romantic Age 1789-1832
6. The Victorian Period 1832-1900
7. The Twentieth Century to 1939
8. The Contemporary Period: 199 to Today 46

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1. The Beginnings of English: Old and Middle English 600-1485
I. Setting the Scene
The first literature period in English: AD 410 – 1066
Romans left Britain in 410, Norman Conquest began the late medieval period of history in 1066
Britain was invaded by many peoples from Europe (Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings and Normans)
The Old English: the first literature in English
Anglo-Saxon period: Christian culture and Heroic culture
In 1066, the Norman Conquest at the Battle of Hastings
William → The Normans brought French language mix with Old English
In 1215, the Magna Carta reduced the power of the king
In 1265, the first parliament
In 1362, English became the language of national law

II. Old English
i. PERSONAL AND RELIGIOUS VOICES
The language of the earliest English literature came from many different places
The subject of the first literature: war, religion, personal sadness, happiness
It was Christian monks in the monasteries who first wrote down the words of the early literature

참고 자료

The Penguin Guide to English Literature