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
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.
61.
Lytton Strachey
62.
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