Do you love history and literature?
Well, whether you do (and will know what we’re talking about here and probably feel a bit superior about the whole thing) or don’t (who has time for that stuff, anyway?) there’s a good chance you’ll get a chuckle out of these “layman’s” summaries of histories literary movements.
Courtesy of World Circus.
Please. Enjoy.
Old English
Middle English
Elizabethan
Jacobean
Late Renaissance
Age of Enlightenment
Sturm und Drang
Romanticism
Victorian
Transcendentalism
Gothic Literature
Post-Colonialism
Literature of the Absurd
Realism
The Beat Generation
The Lost Generation
The Harlem Renaissance
Modernist
Surrealism
Post-Modernism
Magical Realism
There you have it – don’t you feel smarter now? I know I do!