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CONTENT

Unit 1: The Anglo-Saxon Literature and the Norman French Period 1
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Unit 2: The Age of Chaucer 8
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Unit 3: Medieval Drama and the Early Renaissance: Age of Queen Elizabeth I 16
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Unit 4: The Renaissance-Elizabethan Age 23
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Unit 5: The Renaissance-University Wits and Contribution of Shakespeare to This Age 30
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Unit 6: The Puritan Age or Age of Milton: Milton as a Poet and His Contribution 36
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Unit 7: The Restoration Period or Beginning of Neoclassicism, Comedy of Manners 42
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Unit 8: The Restoration Period or Beginning of Neoclassicism (Dryden’s Contribution, 49
Glorious Revolution of 1688)
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Unit 9: The Augustan Age or the Triumph of Neoclassicism (Age of Prose and Reason) 59
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Unit 10: The Augustan Age or the Triumph of Neoclassicism (Pope and Heroic Couplet, 67
Poetic Diction and Satire)
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Unit 11: The Augustan Age or the Triumph of Neoclassicism (Devotional Verse, Popularity of 75
Periodical Essays)
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Unit 12: The Age of Johnson-The Decline of Neoclassicism (Gothic Novel) 85
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Unit 13: The Eighteenth Century-Approach/Transition Towards Romanticism (Progress of Education, 98
Philosophical Thought and Science)
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Unit 14: The Eighteenth Century-Approach/Transition Towards Romanticism (Decline of Novel, 104
Agricultural Revolution and Industrial Revolution)
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Unit 15: The Triumph of Romanticism (Social, Economic, Political and Cultural Conditions) 113
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Unit 16: The Triumph of Romanticism (Renascence of Wonder and Influence of French Revolution 120
on Poets of The Age)
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Unit 17: The Triumph of Romanticism (Elements of Medievalism, Escapism and Supernaturalism) 130
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