Literary Movements and Their Characteristics
Major literary movements from Renaissance to Postmodernism: key characteristics, representative authors, and defining works that shaped each era.
The data
Movements
| Name | Characteristics | Key authors | Historical context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renaissance (14th-17th century) |
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| Fall of Constantinople (1453), printing press, exploration age |
| Enlightenment / Neoclassicism (17th-18th century) |
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| Scientific revolution, French Revolution, age of reason |
| Romanticism (late 18th-mid 19th century) |
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| Industrial Revolution backlash, French Revolution aftermath |
| Realism (mid-late 19th century) |
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| Industrialization, urbanization, rise of sociology |
| Modernism (early-mid 20th century) |
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| World Wars, Freud, Einstein, collapse of old order |
| Postmodernism (mid-late 20th century) |
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| Cold War, consumer culture, media saturation, post-structuralism |
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