Brittany Aves - Literature
Brittany Aves - Literature
Brittany Aves - Literature
EUROPEAN LITERATURE
B R I T TA N Y AV E S
PERIODS OF LITERATURE:
• Renaissance: 1400’s-1600’s
• Enlightenment: 1650- 1800
• Romanticism: 1798 – 1870
• Realism/Naturalism: 1850-1914
• Victorian Period: 1832- 1901
• Modernism: 1870’s – 1965
• Post-Modernism: 1965- Present
(Wheeler, Lit. Timeline, Rickard)
RENAISSANCE (1400’S-1600’S)
(Wheeler, Kagan)
RENAISSANCE MEN
(Eder, Kagan)
RENAISSANCE MEN
(Eder, Kagan)
ENLIGHTENMENT (1650- 1800)
• Rousseau: Developed the idea of the Noble Savage, and pushed for
individualism, as well as individual human rights. His influence
was profound, and his distrust of civilization in general led to new
educational and political practices across Europe.
• Voltaire: Staunch deist, advocate of human rights and fighter of
injustice. He adamantly fought rigid religion and governmental
abuse of power. He opposed censorship and was a fierce critic of
society.
• Smith: Smith advocated a “Laissez-faire” system of economics in
which the government should stay out of the day to day economic
affairs, allowing for natural regulation in the free market economy.
(Eder, Kagan)
ENLIGHTENMENT THINKERS
(Eder, Kagan)
ENLIGHTENMENT THINKERS
(Eder, Kagan)
IMPORTANT ENLIGHTENMENT QUOTES