English classics
Austen, Dickens, Brontë
English classics refers to foundational works of English literature—the novels, plays, and poetry that form the traditional canon.
Shakespeare, Milton, Austen, Dickens, and the Brontës appear on most lists.
The term also describes academic study of these works: She majored in English classics.
What qualifies as a classic shifts over time, with the canon expanding to include previously excluded voices.
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- playRecreation or staged drama
- tragic heroCharacter whose flaw causes ruin
- adaptationsChanges to fit conditions
Jane Austen · Pride and Prejudice · unrequited love · novel · boarding school · translations · anthologies · John Milton · Paradise Lost · Emily Brontë · Wuthering Heights · Victorian era · Geoffrey Chaucer · Canterbury Tales · poem · George Eliot · morality · Beowulf
- English LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Jane Austen, Bronte, Chaucer
- translationtranslator, literal translation, literary translation, free translation, French translation
- Italian translationstranslated poetry
English classicscontemporary fiction
Recently written realistic novels
modern novels · debut novels · contemporary authors · works in progress
English classicspulp fiction
Sensational cheap literature
dime novels · airport novels · penny dreadfuls · potboilers · genre fiction
English classicsRussian classics
Canonical literature from Moscow's tradition
French classics · foreign literature · world literature · translated literature
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