Lit History from the Professor’s Desk

30 Lectures on the History of English Literature

A chronological journey through the evolution of English literature — from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Contemporary age — in 30 immersive lectures penned with the professor’s clarity and historical insight.

Authored by ABS, The Literary Professor

A thousand years. One professor’s pen. Journey through the full sweep of English literature — from Beowulf to blogs, Shakespeare to stream-of-consciousness and the PRESENT 

History of English Literature From the Professor's Desk

Lectures  

 

  1. Anglo-Saxon History of English Literature Part I   

  2. Old English or Anglo-Saxon Period in English Literature Part II

  3. Middle English Period 1066 to 1400 AD

  4. Geoffrey Chaucer — Middle English Period

  5. Middle English Period 1066 to 1480: Poetic Visions, Religious Voices, and the Drama of the Middle English Mind

  6. Middle English Period 1066 to 1480: The Turbulent Close of the Middle Ages — War, Plague, Descent, and Change

  7. The Renaissance: When England Learned to Look Forward

  8. England’s Golden Age and Gathering Shadows Part 1: The Poetic Court

  9. England’s Golden Age and Gathering Shadows Part 2: Shakespeare’s Stage

  10. England’s Golden Age and Gathering Shadows Part 3: Jacobean Shadows and Stagecraft

  11. England’s Golden Age and Gathering Shadows Part 4: The Last Act — England’s Stage Faces the Final Curtain

  12. The Puritan Interregnum — England’s Literature in Chains and Shadows

  13. The Neoclassical Age — The Tyranny of Wit and the Triumph of Form

  14. The Augustan Age — When Reason Ruled the Rhyme

  15. The Last Flame of Wit — The Age of Johnson and the Late Neoclassicals

  16. The Transition Era — Pre-Romantics: When Poetry Began to Feel Again

  17. The Romantic Era Part I — Poetry Becomes a Blockbuster of the Heart: The Senior Romantics

  18. The Romantic Era Part II — Wild Hearts that Burn Too Bright: The Younger Romantics

  19. The Romantic Era Part III — Prose, Shadows and the Endless Tale

  20. Victorian Visions Part I — Faith, Fiction, and the Fractured Empire

  21. Victorian Visions Part II — The Victorian Novel: Fiction Becomes the Mirror of Society

  22. Victorian Visions Part III — The Late Victorian Poets and the Aesthetic Turn

  23. Modernism Part I — Literature in a Broken World

  24. Modernism Part II — The War that Shattered Words

  25. Modernism Part III — After the Guns Fell Silent: Literature Between Wars

  26. Modernism Part IV — Ashes, Absurdities, and Atomic Echoes: Literature Between the Wars and the Void

  27. Postmodernism Part I — Welcome to the Literary Funhouse: Chaos, Control and Cleverness

  28. Postmodernism Part II — Remix, Reboot, Reload: Postmodernism Goes Global

  29. Contemporary Literature Part I — After the Millennium: Voices, Visions, and Virtual Realities

  30. Contemporary Literature Part II — Stories in the Age of Destruction: Literature from 2012 to 2025  

 

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