HERMAN MELVILLE: MOBY DICK 1851 (1st person narrative, narrated by
Ishmael) EDGAR ALLAN POE POEMS (The Raven, Annabel Lee, Eldorado) Short Stories (The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Purloined Letter, Murders in the Rue Morgue)Gothic Fiction, Inventor of the detective story
ROMANTICISM/TRANSCEDENTALISM
WALT WHITMAN: LEAVES OF GRASS 1851
RALPH WALDO EMMERSON: SELF-RELIANCE
HENRY DAVID THOREAU: CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
MARK TWAIN: THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN 1884 (1st
person, narrated by the main character)
VICTORIAN AGE (Queen Victoria 1837-1901)
CHARLES DICKENS GREAT EXPECTATIONS 1861, DAVID COPPERFIELD
1850 (REALISM Bildungsroman, 1st person narrative, narrated by the main character)
LEWIS CAROL ALICES ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND 1865 (nonsense
literature, absurd fiction) 3rd person narrative, omniscient narrator
HENRY JAMES THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY, 1881 (psychological novel,
multiple point of view)
THOMAS HARDY TESS OF THE DURBERVILLES, 1891 (NATURALISM,
realist novel, 3rd person, omniscient narrator)
LATE VICTORIANISM/EDWARDIAN PERIOD (King Edward 1901-1914)
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW CESAR AND CLEOPATRA 1901, PYGMALION
1912? (modernist drama) BRITISH MODERNISM
JOSEPH CONRAD HEART OF DARKNESS 1902 (first person, narrated by
Marlow), LORD JIM 1900(3rd person omniscient, then 1st person, narrated by Marlow)
T.S. ELIOT WASTELAND 1922
JAMES JOYCE ULYSSES 1922 (stream of consciousness, multiple point of view,
narrated by Bloom, Stephen and Molly)
VIRGINIA WOOLF MRS DALLOWAY 1925 (stream of consciousness, multiple
point of view, narrated by Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith)
AMERICAN MODERNISM
A. THE JAZZ AGE/THE ROARING TWENTIES
1.SCOTT FITZGERALD: THE GREAT GATSBY 1925 (1st person, narrated by
Nick Carraway, minor character in the novel)
2. ERNEST HEMINGWAY: SHORT STORIES (several collections between
1923-1938)
WILLIAM FAULKNER: ABSALOM, ABSALOM! 1936 (multiple points of view, 4
main narrators)
EXPRESSIONISM
EUGENE ONEILL: MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA 1931
POSTMODERNISM
British
WILLIAM GOLDING: LORD OF THE FLIES 1954 (third person omniscient)
JOHN FOWLES: THE MAGUS 1965( existentialism, 1st person point of view, narrated by the main character Nicholas Urfe)
American
KURT VONNEGUT : SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 OR THE CHILDRENS
CRUSADE: A DUTY DANCE WITH DEATH, 1969 (3rd omniscient and 1st person
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