British literature

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British literature by Mind Map: British literature

1. Victorian literature(1832-1900)

1.1. Charles Dickens

1.1.1. Our Mutual Friend

1.1.2. Little Dorrit

1.2. The Bronte sisters

1.2.1. Jane Eyre

1.2.2. Wuthering Heights

1.3. Detective novels

1.3.1. Sherlock Holmes

1.4. modern fantasy

1.4.1. George MAcDonald

1.4.1.1. The Princess and the Goblin

1.5. Children's literature

1.5.1. Alice's adventures in Wonderland

1.5.2. The Tale of Peter Rabbit

2. Influence

2.1. Society

2.1.1. Social Class

2.1.1.1. Great Expectation

2.1.1.2. Jane Eyre

2.1.1.3. An Inspector Calls

2.1.2. Social Injustice

2.1.2.1. A Christmas Carol

2.1.3. Redemption

2.1.3.1. A Christmas Carol

2.1.4. Crime and Law

2.1.4.1. Great Expectation

2.2. Culture

2.2.1. Celtic Motif

2.2.1.1. Historia Regun Britanniae

2.2.2. Establishing English as a literacy language

2.2.2.1. Wycliffe's Bible

2.2.3. Legitimacy of the Vernacular

2.2.3.1. Geoffrey Chaucer

2.2.4. Italian Culture

2.2.4.1. John Florio

2.3. Religion

2.3.1. Bible

2.3.1.1. Wycliffe's Bible

2.3.2. Christian Salvation

2.3.2.1. The Somonyng of Everyman

2.4. Politics

2.4.1. 1984

2.4.2. Animal Farm

2.4.3. Utopia

3. The Renaissance(1485-1660)

3.1. Shakespere

3.1.1. King Lear

3.1.2. Anthony and Cleopatra

3.2. Revenge play

3.2.1. Gorboduc

3.2.2. The Spanish Tragedy

3.2.3. Hamlet

4. The Restoration (1669-1700)

4.1. English comedy

4.2. Heroic couplet

4.2.1. John Dryden

4.2.1.1. MacFlecknoe

4.3. London Life&Cultural scene

4.3.1. Diarists John EVelyn

4.3.2. Samuel Pepys

5. 18th-century

5.1. The Augustan age(1701-1750)

5.1.1. Roman counterparts

5.1.1.1. John Dryden

5.1.1.2. Henry Fielding

5.2. Gothic fiction

5.2.1. The Castle of Otranto

5.3. graveyard poets

5.3.1. Thomas Gray

5.3.2. Wiliam Cowper

5.4. Sentimental novel

5.4.1. Pamela

5.4.2. The Vicar of Wakefield

5.5. Novel of manners

6. Romanticism(1798-1837)

6.1. William Blake

6.1.1. Songs of Innocence

6.1.2. Songs of Experience

6.2. The Lake Poets

6.3. Jane Austen

6.3.1. Pride and Prejudice

6.3.2. Persuasion