Periods of British Literature: 450-1066: Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) Period 1066-1500: Middle English Period 1500-1660: The Renaissance 1558-1603: Elizabethan Age 1603-1625: Jacobean Age 1625-1649: Caroline Age 1649-1660: Commonwealth Period (or Puritan Interregnum) 1660-1785: The Neoclassical Period 1660-1700: The Restoration 1700-1745: The Augustan Age (or Age of Pope) 1745-1785: The Age of Sensibility (or Age of Johnson) 1785-1830: The Romantic Period 1832-1901: The Victorian
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In 1871‚ a new form of colonisation emerged in Europe and was later differentiated from the Empires of Spain and Portugal in the 15th and 16th centuries as New Imperialism. Intelligibly‚ it is also referred to as ‘the Scramble for Africa’‚ as a result of the swift rate at which nations clamoured to gain control of weaker regions in deviated areas from the 1600’s. There is much speculation surrounding the reasoning of such accelerated expansion‚ however‚ there is a clear correlation of events that
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Intro/Chap 1 Hegemony- ideological domination. Basic premises of Cultural Studies Basic premise semiotics (the study of how things are made to mean) For human beings‚ there are no necessary or inherent meaning in anything . Things have to be made to mean. Basic premises of semiotics Making things mean is a social and political process‚ practice‚ and struggle. Therefore‚ our sense of reality is socially and politically constructed. Basic premises of cultural studies In societies marked by institutionalized
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Tom Jones and Morality The two hundredth anniversary of Henry Fielding is very justly celebrated‚ even if‚ as far as can be discovered‚ it is only celebrated by the newspapers. It would be too much to expect that any such merely chronological incident should induce the people who write about Fielding to read him; this kind of neglect is only another name for glory. A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read. This is not in itself wholly unjust; it merely implies a certain
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The Industrial Revolution changed the world forever. It helped progress us forward to how things are ran today. It made work faster and more efficient. A thought process that we will have forever. Moving the textile business out from people’s homes and in to the factory was a big necessary step. While some aspects of a factory are different‚ the process that was used during the Industrial Revolution is the same. The industrial Revolution changed the way we fought our wars‚ interacted with other countries
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LISPETH OK‚ so to Lispeth. An early Kipling‚ written in 1886‚ age 20. This is a typical Kipling story of the conflict between Occident and Orient in a colonial setting. The basic plot is this: a character crosses the divide; and crossing the disaster inevitably leads to disaster. Let us remind ourselves of the opening paragraph of this story‚ since it describes perfectly what we’re talking about: But there is the curious thing about Kipling: in his Indian tales‚ the white characters can often be
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avoid looking like a fool” in front of a crowd of onlookers‚ even though he knows it isn’t what he “ought to do.” What scares Orwell more than what Kipling describes as “the threat of terror” that comes with living among “new-caught‚ sullen peoples‚ / Half-devil and half-child” (Kipling) is “the judgment of [his] peers” (Kipling). However‚ unlike Kipling‚ Orwell’s peers are the subjugated people that exist around him‚ not contemporary white citizens of white nations‚ who are obviously smarter and more
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significance of White Imperialists in civilizing other dark places of the world by teaching European customs‚ morals‚ culture values‚ economy and government types to backward societies. In fact‚ Kipling also demonstrates his admiration for White Imperialists through gratitude and appreciation. Unlike Kipling and Conrad‚ Eliot demonstrates a more spiritual tone in order to describe his viewpoints on
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White Man’s Burden Vs Black Man’s Burden The Argument Kipling was trying to make that its white man’s responsibility to guide and convey their culture on non white people. The main idea Kipling was talking about in his poem was that even though it may seem bad or annoying‚ European and other white people should go and educate other people even if they don’t want to be educated. His believe was that white man are superior any other race. He specifically talked about Africans being uncivilized. In
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remaining egg (Kipling). The book’s plot is very similar‚ without a single difference in the major plot line. The setting in the book is “the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment”
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