Introduction to British and American Literature: Prepare with Confidence
Explore the rich worlds of British and American literature with our comprehensive introduction. Master key themes and authors to excel in any course or test.
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🎬 TIMESTAMPS
SECTION 1: ELIZABETHAN & JACOBEAN DRAMA
0:00:00 - The History of Drama
0:10:07 - Elizabethan Drama
0:21:48 - William Shakespeare
0:27:45 - Elizabethan Drama Quiz
0:27:45 - Hamlet: A Synopsis of the Play
0:31:18 - Hamlet: An Analysis of the Play
0:49:48 - Hamlet's Soliloquies
0:54:47 - Hamlet Quiz
0:54:47 - Jacobean Literature: Poetry and Prose
1:06:21 - Puritanism and the English Civil War
1:17:11 - Metaphysical Poetry
1:25:07 - Jacobean Literature Quiz
SECTION 2: METAPHYSICAL POETS
1:25:07 - Metaphysical Poets: John Donne
1:33:17 - George Herbert
1:38:29 - Andrew Marvell
1:45:32 - John Milton
1:53:13 - Metaphysical Poets Quiz
SECTION 3: RESTORATION & RISE OF THE NOVEL
1:53:13 - The Restoration and Glorious Revolution
1:59:03 - The Novel
2:06:32 - Early Novelists: Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding
2:18:01 - The Rise of the Novel Quiz
2:18:01 - English Satire: John Dryden & Alexander Pope
2:23:43 - Jonathan Swift & Gulliver's Travels
2:34:02 - Swift's "A Modest Proposal"
2:41:41 - Satire Quiz
SECTION 4: EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE
2:41:41 - Colonialism & John Smith
2:48:58 - Pilgrim Writers
2:59:14 - The Revolutionary Period Writers
3:06:43 - The Emergence of American Literature Quiz
3:06:43 - The Knickerbocker Era: Washington Irving
3:20:48 - Frontier Fiction: James Fenimore Cooper
3:30:34 - Early American Literature Quiz
SECTION 5: TRANSCENDENTALISM
3:30:34 - The Westward Expansion
3:34:47 - Transcendentalism: Ralph Waldo Emerson
3:44:52 - Transcendentalism: Henry David Thoreau
3:52:36 - Anti-Transcendentalism: Nathaniel Hawthorne
3:57:30 - Transcendentalism Quiz
SECTION 6: NEW ENGLAND RENAISSANCE
3:57:30 - Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter
4:05:28 - Herman Melville
4:10:51 - Edgar Allan Poe
4:17:08 - Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado"
4:21:53 - Poe's "The Raven"
4:29:04 - The Three Greats of the New England Renaissance Quiz
SECTION 7: AMERICAN CIVIL WAR WRITERS
4:29:04 - The American Civil War Era & Harriet Beecher Stowe
4:35:52 - Walt Whitman
4:44:57 - Whitman's "Drum Taps"
4:51:23 - Emily Dickinson
4:59:53 - American Civil War Writers Quiz
SECTION 8: THE GILDED AGE
4:59:53 - The Gilded Age
5:06:52 - Local Color Writing: Mark Twain
5:15:06 - Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn
5:26:08 - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
5:32:51 - The Gilded Age Quiz
SECTION 9: FEMALE WRITERS & THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
5:32:51 - Female Writers & The French Revolution
5:44:24 - Mary Wollstonecraft
5:53:33 - Helen Maria Williams
6:01:45 - Female Writers and the French Revolution Quiz
6:01:45 - Unitarianism
6:05:43 - Harriet Martineau
6:17:29 - Anna Laetitia Barbauld
6:22:47 - Lucy Aikin
6:27:40 - Unitarianism and Women Writers Quiz
SECTION 10: BRITISH ROMANTICISM
6:27:40 - The Napoleonic Wars
6:35:33 - The Romantic Period
6:40:13 - William Blake
6:47:43 - William Wordsworth
6:56:04 - British Romanticism Quiz
6:56:04 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
7:04:10 - Percy Bysshe Shelley
7:11:40 - John Keats
7:20:23 - Lord George Gordon Byron
7:27:39 - Romantic Poets Quiz
SECTION 11: 19TH CENTURY NOVELS
7:27:39 - Gothic Novels
7:37:42 - Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
7:51:25 - Victorian Novels
8:00:00 - 19th Century Novels Quiz
8:00:00 - Emily Brontë and Wuthering Heights
8:11:29 - Charles Dickens and Great Expectations
8:26:15 - Victorian Novels Quiz
SECTION 12: MODERNISM & 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE
8:26:15 - Anti-Victorianism & Edwardian England
8:30:50 - Imagism & Gertrude Stein
8:36:13 - Post War Literature & Ezra Pound
8:46:02 - T.S. Eliot
8:58:48 - William Carlos Williams
9:03:17 - Archibald MacLeish
9:08:33 - Imagism Quiz
9:08:33 - Modernist Fiction
9:15:20 - Henry James
9:22:13 - James Joyce
9:29:00 - Joyce's "Araby"
9:47:55 - Joyce's Ulysses
9:54:48 - Virginia Woolf
10:01:17 - To the Lighthouse
10:13:44 - Modernist Fiction Quiz
10:13:44 - Ernest Hemingway and the Lost Generation
10:18:17 - Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises
10:27:48 - F. Scott Fitzgerald
10:32:09 - Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
10:40:23 - Fiction Writers of The Lost Generation Quiz
10:40:23 - ee cummings
10:45:53 - Robert Lowell
10:50:54 - The Beat Generation & Allen Ginsberg
11:02:20 - Poets of The Lost Generation Quiz
11:02:20 - End of Course
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