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1. Early American and colonial period
Aanne bradstreet,
John smith,
Jonathan edwards
6
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2. American revolutionary writers
Thomas paine,
Benjamin franklin,
John de crevecoeur cr v cu r
5
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3. American Romanticism in Fiction
Washington irving,
James fenimore cooper,
Edgar allan poe
6
cards
4. American Romanticism in philosophy
Ralph waldo emerson,
Henry david thoreau,
Frederick douglass
4
cards
5. American Modernism in poetry
Edgar allan poe,
Walt whitman,
Emily dickinson
4
cards
6. American Realism
A william dean howells,
B kate chopin,
C mark twain
5
cards
7. American Naturalism
A stephen crane,
B jack london,
C frank norris
6
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8. American Modernism
A ernest hemingway,
B f scott fitzgerald,
C william faulkner
5
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9. American Modernism in Poetry
A langston hughes,
B sylvia plath,
C robert frost
6
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10. American literature 1930-1960s
A john steinbeck,
B jd salinger,
C shirley jackson
7
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11. American Modern Gothic
A flannery o connor,
B harper lee,
C shirley jackson
7
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12. Reflections of WWI and WWII
A john dos passo,
B bernard malamud,
C philip roth
9
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13. Postmodernism and multicultural canon
A vladimir nabokov,
B kurt vonnegut,
C michael cunnigham
5
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14. Representative American Drama
A eugene o neill,
B arthur miller,
C edward albee
7
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15. African American Literature
A phillis wheatley,
B frederick douglass,
C paul laurence dunbar
9
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1. Old and Middle English
Anonymous works,
D venerable bede,
E cynewulf kinwulf
6
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2. Middle English Poetry and religious prose
Anonymous works,
F william the conqueror,
H john wycliffe
12
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3. English Renaissance Poetry
A edmund spenser,
B sir thomas wyatt,
C henry howard
7
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4. English Renaissance Drama
A thomas kyd,
B john heywood,
C thomas norton and thomas sackville
4
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5. William Shakespeare
When did he write comedies,
When did he write tragedies,
When did he write tragicomedies
9
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6. Key Texts 17th
A john donne,
B john milton,
C john bunyan
5
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7. Key Texts 18th
A alexander pope,
B johnathan swift,
C john gay
9
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8. Pre-romantic and Romantic Poetic Sensibility
Supposedly by a bard,
B thomas gray,
C horace walpole
4
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9. Romantic Poetry
A william wordsworth,
B samuel taylor coleridge,
C robert burns
7
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10. Romantic Fiction
A jane austen,
B walter scott,
C mary shelley
6
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11. Victorian Poetry
A alfred tennyson,
B robert browning,
C elizabeth browning
7
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12. Victorian Fiction (realism)
A charles dickens,
B elizabeth gaskell,
C william thackeray
12
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13. Literature of the Turn of the Century
A william butler yeats,
B james joyce,
C george bernard shaw
8
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14. Edwardian Literature (realists, proto-modernists)
A william butler yeats,
B joseph conrad,
C edward morgan foster
5
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15. British Modernist Fiction
A james joyce,
B virginia woolf,
C david herbert lawrence
6
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16. British Modernist Poetry
A ezra pound,
B thomas stearns eliot
2
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17. British Interwar Fiction and Poetry
A wystan hugh auden,
B christopher isherwood,
C aldous huxley
5
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18. British Drama of the 1950s
A samuel beckett,
B tom stoppard,
C john osborne
3
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19. British Literature of the 1950s and 1960s - poetry and fiction
A kingsley amis,
B alan sillitoe,
C angry young men
9
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20. British Drama of the 20th Century
A george bernard shaw,
B harold pinter,
C samuel beckett
7
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21. Multicultural British Fiction and Poetry
A andrea levy,
B zadie smith,
C benjamin zephaniah
6
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22. Postmodern British Literature
A anthony burgess,
B john fowles,
C martin amis
7
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23. Contemporary British Fiction (1990s until the present)
A helen fielding,
B zadie smith,
C ian mcewan
4
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24. British Poetry from the 1960s until the present
A seamus heaney,
B benjamin zephaniah,
C carol anne duffy
6
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