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| | 6. Literature in English. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The separation of British from American literature is somewhat misleading, particularly in the case of older literature. |
 | | Usual practice divides our literature into the following periods: the Middle Ages (e.g., Chaucer), the Renaissance (e.g., Shakespeare), the eighteenth century (e.g., Samuel Johnson), the Romantic period of the early nineteenth century (e.g., Wordsworth), the Victorian period of the later nineteenth century (e.g., Dickens), and the twentieth century (e.g., T. Eliot). |
 | | In the twentieth century, literature written in English tended to be international as well as national in flavor, as in writers like Salman Rushdie. |
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