Ms. Mariz Geraldine A.

Jose, LPT
Anglo-American
Literature
AN INTRODUCTION
 Anglo-Saxon Literature
 Old English
 From the mid-5th century to the
Norman Conquest of 1066 (600
years)
 Includes genres such as epic
poetry, hagiography, sermons, Bible
translations, legal works, chronicles,
riddles, and others

The initial page of the Peterborough Chronicle, 1150, one of the major sources of the Anglo-
Saxon Chronicle. © CS McGill CA - Google
 ANGLIA, LATIN

Anglo FOR ENGLAND,

THE LAND OF
THE ANGLES
 Great Britain and adjacent islands in
the 5th century AD, before the invasion
and subsequent founding of Anglo-
Saxon kingdoms.

©Google
The Emigrants (1844) Two Celtic Britons (c. 1574)
© Google © Google
 GERMANIC
TRIBES WHO
Saxons & Jutes SAILED ACROSS
THE NORTH SEA
TO RAID AND
EVENTUALLY,
INVADE GREAT
BRITAIN.
English Literature
PERIODS
 GENRE: EPIC POETRY,

Old English Literature

HAGIOGRAPHY,
SERMONS, BIBLE

(450-1100)
TRANSLATIONS,
CHRONICLES
E.G. BEOWULF
 GENRE: ROMANCE,
BIBLE TRANSLATIONS
Middle English E.G. THE
Literature (1100- CANTERBURY TALES
OF GEOFFREY
1500) CHAUCER;
SIR GAWAIN AND THE
GREEN KNIGHT
 GENRE: VERNACULAR
LITERATURE,
COMEDY, TRAGEDY

English Renaissance E.G. WORKS OF

WILLIAM
(1500-1660) SHAKESPEARE AND
CHRISTOPHER
MARLOWE;
THE FAERIE QUEENE
BY EDMUND SPENSER
 Neo- GENRE: PASTORAL
AND MOCK-HEROIC
Classical/Restoration E.G. GULLIVER'S

Age (1660-1785) TRAVEL OF

JONATHAN SWIFT
 GENRE: POETRY,
DISCURSIVE
PROSE, DRAMA
E.G. SONGS OF
Romantic Period INNOCENCE BY
WILLIAM BLAKE
(1785-1830) REFLECTIONS ON
THE REVOLUTION
IN FRANCE BY
EDMUND BURKE
(1790)
 GENRE: STREAM OF
CONSCIOUSNESS,
SCIENCE FICTION

Modern Period E.G. THE SOUND AND

THE FURY BY
(1914-1945) WILLIAM FAULKNER;
LADY CHAT TERLEY’S
LOVER BY D.H.
LAWRENCE
 GENRE: FICTION,
POETRY, DRAMA
Postmodern Period E.G. T.S. ELLIOT’S
VERSE PLAYS;
(1945-present) THE WHITE
GODDESS BY
ROBERT GRAVES
American Literature
PERIODS
 GENRE: SERMONS,
DIARIES, PERSONAL
NARRATIVES
E.G. HISTORIES OF
VIRGINIA BY JOHN
SMITH;
RELIGIOUS BOOKS BY Puritan/Colonial (1650-
1750)
JOHN WINTHROP
AND NATHANIEL
WARD;
THE TENTH MUSE
LATELY SPRUNG UP
IN AMERICA (1650)
BY ANNE
BRADSTREET
 GENRE: POLITICAL
PAMPHLETS, TRAVEL
WRITING
E.G. THE FEDERALIST
PAPERS (1787 -88)
BY ALEXANDER
HAMILTON, JAMES
MADISON, AND
JOHN JAY;
Revolutionary/Age of
BENJAMIN Reason (1750-1800)
FRANKLIN’S
AUTOBI OGRAPHY ;
THE POWER OF
SY MPATHY BY
WILLIAM HILL
BROWN
 GENRE: CHARACTER
SKETCHES, SLAVE
NARRATIVES, POETRY,
SHORT STORIES
E.G. RIP VAN
WINKLE, THE LEGEND
OF SLEEPY HOLLOW Romanticism (1800-
BY WASHINGTON
IRVING; 1860)
POEMS OF WALT
WHITMAN;
THE RAVEN BY
EDGAR ALLAN POE
 GENRE: POETRY,
SHORT STORIES,
NOVELS American Renaissance
E.G. ESSAYS OF
RALPH WALDO / Transcendentalism
EMERSON;
WALDEN BY HENRY
(1840-1860)
DAVID THOREAU
 GENRE: NOVELS,
SHORT STORIES
E.G. CLOTEL AND THE
ESCAPE BY WILLIAM
WELLS BROWN

Realism (1855-1900)
(1853)
UNCLE TOM’S CABIN
BY HARRIET BEECHER
STOWE;
THE ADVENTURES OF
TOM SAWYER BY
MARK TWAIN
 GENRE: NOVELS,
PLAYS, POETRY
E.G. THE GREAT
GATSBY BY F. SCOTT
FITZGERALD; Modernism (1900-1950)
THE SUN ALSO RISES
BY ERNEST
HEMINGWAY (1926)
GENRE: NARRATIVES,
METAFICTION, AND
MAGIC REALISM
E.G. LOLITA BY
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Postmodernism (1950-
(1955); present)
THE COLOR PURPLE
BY ALICE WALKER
(1982)
 Fin.
Thank you.