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- The Literature Network: Online classic literature, poems, and quotes . . .
Welcome to The Literature Network! We offer searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index We currently have over 3500 full books and over 4400 short stories and poems by over 260 authors Our quotations database has over 8500 quotes, and our quiz system features over 340 quizzes Have a
- Existentialism - Literature Periods Movements
Contemporary literature adopts, discards, and modifies so many philosophical and aesthetic perspectives that holistic points of view like existentialism gets washed out by all the competing voices
- Modernism - Literature Periods Movements
Modernism The Modernist Period in English Literature occupied the years from shortly after the beginning of the twentieth century through roughly 1965 In broad terms, the period was marked by sudden and unexpected breaks with traditional ways of viewing and interacting with the world Experimentation and individualism became virtues, where in the past they were often heartily discouraged
- The Bloomsbury Group - Literature Periods Movements
The Bloomsbury Group The Bloomsbury Group was a small, informal association of artists and intellectuals who lived and worked in the Bloomsbury area of central London Most prominent of these was novelist and essayist Virginia Woolf In all, only about a dozen people at any one time could have called themselves members of the group Beginning shortly before 1910, the Bloomsbury Group gathered
- The Enlightenment - Literature Periods Movements
The Enlightenment The Enlightenment, sometimes referred to as the Age of Reason, was a confluence of ideas and activities that took place throughout the eighteenth century in Western Europe, England, and the American colonies Scientific rationalism, exemplified by the scientific method, was the hallmark of everything related to the Enlightenment Following close on the heels of the
- Ch. 5: Masculine Literature
Literature Network » Charlotte Perkins Gilman » The Man-Made World » Ch 5: Masculine Literature Ch 5: Masculine Literature When we are offered a "woman's" paper, page, or column, we find it filled with matter supposed to appeal to women as a sex or class; the writer mainly dwelling upon the Kaiser's four K's--Kuchen, Kinder, Kirche, Kleider
- Literary Periods Timeline - online literature
Literary Periods History Timeline Here you will find our graphical timeline representing literary periods movements, as well as major events or authors from literature history To learn more about specific eras you can browse back to our Literary Periods page You may purchase this timeline in poster form here
- Realism - Literature Periods Movements
Realism The dominant paradigm in novel writing during the second half of the nineteenth century was no longer the Romantic idealism of the earlier part of the century What took hold among the great novelists in Europe and America was a new approach to character and subject matter, a school of thought which later came to be known as Realism On one level, Realism is precisely what it sounds
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