RESEARCH TERMS:

 These terms will familiarize you with much information that will add significantly to your understanding of the material taught in the course. To find definitions, consult textbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, other reference books,  and the library's computer catalogue for books on the topic. I also have placed reference works in the Reserve room of the library (ask for materials for DANIEL ENG 3331. You do not have to turn in anything. You will only take an in-class test. You will be asked to match the term with a major identifying characteristic of 40 or 50 of the terms.

 


I. MIDDLE AGES

1. Anglo‑Saxon Chronicle

2. Chivalry

3. Gothic

4. ``Sir Gawain and the Green Knight''

5. Grail Legend

6. Feudalism

7. Ptolemaic universe

 

 

II. RENAISSANCE AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

8. Francis Bacon

9. Petrarchan Courtly Love

10. Baroque

11. The Popish Plot

12. Guy Fawkes

13. Arianism

14. Socinian

 

III. RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

15. South‑Sea Bubble

16. Coffee House

17. Robert Walpole

18. Ossian

19. Strawberry Hill

20. Sentimental Drama

21. The Beggar's Opera

22. Age of Sensibility

23. The sublime

24. Laughing Comedy

25. Laurence Sterne

26. Edward Gibbon

27. David Hume

28. Henry Fielding

29. Thomas Gray

30. Edmund Burke

31. Oliver Goldsmith

32. Gothic Romance

 

IV. ROMANTICISM

33. Robert Southey

34. Thomas DeQuincey

35. Mary Shelley

37. Natural supernaturalism

38. William Hazlitt

39. Jane Austen

40. The Regency (in England)

41. Sir Walter Scott

42. Charles Lamb

 

V. VICTORIANS

43. John Stuart Mill

44. George Eliot

45. Rudyard Kipling

46. Dissenters

47. Victorian Philistines

48. The Great Exhibition of 1851

49. Benjamin Disraeli

50. English Radicalism (ca. 1865)

51. Samuel Smiles

52. Robert Louis Stevenson

53. H.G. Welles

54. E. M. Forster

55. John Galsworthy

56. Yellow Nineties

57. Rupert Brooke

 

 


VI. MODERN

58. Robert Graves

59. Ezra Pound

60. Arnold Toynbee

61. Lytton Strachey

62. Arnold Bennett

63. Wyndham Lewis

64. Samuel Beckett

65. George Orwell

66. Stephen Spender

67. D. H. Lawrence

68. Edith Sitwell

69. Evelyn Waugh

70. Surrealism

71. Dadaism

72. Futurist

73. Minimalism

74. Formalism

75. G. K. Chesterton

76. Ted Hughes