*ENG 501: Approaches to Research: Literature

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Literary Periods:

• Age of Goethe, 1774-1832
• Age of Sensibility, 1745-1785
• American Colonial Period, 1607-1765
• American Confessional Period, 1960-
• American Conformity and Criticism Period, 1930-1960
• American Naturalistic and Symbolistic Period, 1900-1930
• American Realistic Period, 1865-1900
• American Romantic Period, 1830-1865
• Ancient Greek Period, ca. 1100 BC-600 AD
• Ancient Hebrew Period, to 70 AD
• Anglo-Norman Period, 1100-1350
• Anglo-Saxon Period, 600-1100
• Augustan Period, 1700-1745
• Canadian Colonial Period, ca. 1610-1867
• Canadian Confederation Period, 1867-1920
• Canadian Contemporary Period, 1960-
• Canadian Modern Period, 1920-1960
• Commonwealth Interregnum Period, 1642-1660
• Early Victorian Period, 1837-1860
• Edwardian Period, 1901-1914
• Eighteenth Century, 1700-1799
• Elizabethan Period, 1558-1603
• Inter-War Period, 1918-1939
• Jacobean and Caroline Period, 1603-1660
• Late Victorian Period, 1880-1901
• Medieval Period, 1100-1500
• Mid-Victorian Period, 1860-1880
• Middle English Period, ca. 1350-1500
• Modernist Period, 1899-1945
• Neoclassical Period, 1660-1785
• Nineteenth Century, 1800-1899
• Postwar Period, 1945-1999
• Renaissance Period, 1500-1660
• Restoration Period, 1660-1700
• Revolutionary and Early American Period, 1765-1830
• Roman Period, ca. 500 BC-600 AD
• Romantic Period, 1780-1837
• Siglo de Oro (Spanish Golden Age), 1500-1681
• Tudor Period, 1500-1603
• Twentieth Century, 1900-1999
• Twenty-First Century, 2000-
• Victorian Period, 1837-1901