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Events and Topics Profiles Completed, December 20051848: The Year of Revolutions
Abolitionism
Absurd, Prose
Accent (Stress)
Acmeism
Act in Restraint of Appeals
Act of Settlement
Act of Settlement of the Poor
Act of Supremacy
Act of Uniformity
Acts for relief of poor
Acts of Succession
Aestheticism
Agricultural crisis
Agricultural Enclosures: the major phase, 1760 onwards
Agriculture before the Enclosures
Alexandrine
Allegory
Alliteration
Allusion
Ambiguity
American Civil War
Anacrusis
Anal Phase
Analogy
Anapest
Ancient Rome - The Republic
Anglo-Saxon Saints' Legends
Anti-Corn Law League founded
Aporia
Apostrophe
Arabs cross the straits of Gibraltar
Arcadia
Archetypal Criticism
Arkwright's water frame
Assonance
Augustan Literature
Augustinian Typology and Christian Hermeneutics
Austrian-Jewish Literature
Autobiography
Balfour Declaration
Ballad
Ballad Stanza
Ballade
Bank of England founded
Banking Crisis and the Restriction Act
Bathos
Battle of Britain, and the Blitz
Battle of Hastings; the Norman Conquest
Battle of the Somme
Battle of Trafalgar
Beast Epic
Benedictines
Bildungsroman
Bill of Rights (USA)
Binary Oppositions
Black Death
Blank Verse
Blitzkrieg, Dunkirk evacuation, Fall of France
Bloody Sunday
Bloomsbury Group
Boustrophedon
Bow Street Runners
Bridgewater Canal opens
British Political Theatre
British Union of Fascists
Burlesque
Byliny [Russian Heroic Poems]
Caesura
Calendar Reform
Cambridge Platonists
Carnival, Carnivalesque, Carnivalisation
Carpe Diem
Cartwright's power loom
Castration Complex
Catachresis
Catalexis
Catharsis
Catholic Emancipation Act
Cato Street Conspiracy
Cavalier Poets
Changes in Copyright
Chanson de Geste
Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor
Cheap Repository Tracts
Chiasmus
Chicana Literature
Christanisation of the Roman empire
Chronotope
Church of Scotland founded
Circulating Libraries
Cistercians
Clarendon Code
Closed Couplet
Codification of Byzantine laws by Justinian
Comédie-ballet
Combination Acts
Common Measure
Competence, Linguistic
Complaint
Complementarity Principle
Conceit
Condensation [Verdichtung]
Conduct Book
Connotation
Consonance
Constancy Principle [Konstanzprinzip]
Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire
Conventicles Act
Copyright Act
Corn Laws introduced
Corporation Act
Council of Nicea
Couplet
Courtly Love, Amour courtois
Crompton's spinning mule
Cult of True Womanhood
Cybernetics
Dactyl
Dada
Dasein
Decadence
Deceased Wife's Sister Act
Declaratory Act
Decree of Star-Chamber Concerning Printing
Defamiliarisation
Denotation
Detective Fiction
Deus ex machina
Dialectic
Dialogism, Dialogical
Dialogism, Dialogical
Diction
Diegesis
Difference / différance
Dionysius / Dionysiac
Dirge
Discourse
Displacement [Verschiebung]
Dissolution of the Monasteries
Dissonance
Distich
Dithyramb
Division of the Roman Empire
Division of the Roman empire; Diocletian and the Tetrarchy
Drake’s Circumnavigation of the Globe
Drake’s Circumnavigation of the Globe
Dramatic Irony
Displacement [Verschiebung]
Early English Bible Translations
East India Company
Easter Rising
Eclogue
Edict of Nantes
Edinburgh Review, The
Education of Women 1650-1750
Ego
Elegy
Eli Whitney demonstrates the merits of the mass production of interchangeable parts
Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin
Elision
Elizabeth’s ‘Golden Speech’
Inghinidhe na h&Eagrave;ireann [the Daughters of Erin]
Skaz Narrative
Emblems and Imprese
Enclosures: 1200-1660
Enclosures: 1660-1760
Encomium
End-stopped-line
England breaks with Rome - the Henrician Reformation
Entail
Entropy
Envoy / Envoi
Envoy / Envoi
Epic
Epigram
Epigraph
Epilogue
Epiphany
Episteme
Epistemology
Epistolary Novel
Epitaph
Epithalamion
Epithet
Estrangement Effect
Ethics of Reading
Eulogy
Euphuism
Existentialism
Expansion of the Normans
Fable
Fall of Rome
Falling Meter
Famine; Speenhamland system of Poor Relief
Fancy
Fantastic, The
Fascism
Feminine line ending or caesura
Feminist Detective Fiction
Fetishism
Financial Revolution
First Atomic Bomb Tested
First Book of Common Prayer
First European contact with Japan
First Printed Books (Incunubula)
First Transatlantic Steam Voyage
First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable
Flyting
Folk song (British)
Foot
Frankfurt School
Free indirect discourse
French and Indian Wars : Anglo-French Conflict in North America
French Feminism
Fugitive Slave Law
Funeral of Nelson
Futurism
Futurist Exhibition in London
Gambling
Gay Liberation Movement
Gay Literature
General Strike
Genre, Genre Theory
Georgian Period
Georgian Poetry
Georgic
German Baroque Literature
German Courtly Romance
German Exile Literature 1933-1945
German Fairy Tales
German Novelle [Novella]
German Postcolonial Literature
German Resistance to National Socialism [The Nazi Party]
German Romanticism
Glencoe Massacre
Glorious Revolution, The
Gnosticism
Gothic Architecture
Gothic
Graphic Novel
Graveyard Poets
Great Crash
Great Exhibition and construction of Crystal Palace
Haiku
Hargreaves’ “Spinning Jenny”
Health and Morals of Apprentices Act
Hegemony
Hemistich
Heptameter
Heroic Couplet
Heroic Quatrain
Heteroglossia
Hexameter
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Historical Novel (British)
Historiographic Metafiction (USA)
Hong Kong ceded to the British
Horror
Hovering Stress
Hudson's Bay Company
Humanism
Hundred Years’ War
Hurricane Katrina
Hyde Park Riots, 1866
Hydrogen Bomb tested
Hyperbole
Hysteron Proteron
Iambic
Icelandic Sagas
Id
Idyll
Imaginary, The
Imagism
Impressionism
Indentured Labour
Indeterminacy Principle / Uncertainty Principle
Industrial Revolution
Influence
Interior Monologue
Intertextuality
Introjection
Irish Free State established
Ironbridge
Irony
Isosyllabics
Jacobin Novel
Jacobite, Jacobitism
James Carter
James VI of Scotland
Jansenism
Japan restricts commerce with foreigners
Joan of Arc
Jouissance
Jungian Literary Theory
Kailyard School
Kay’s “Flying Shuttle” invented
King Edward IV
King Edward VI
King Edward VII
King George's War
King Henry VIII
King Richard II
Labour Party
Displacement [Verschiebung]
Langue and Parole
Lapse of the Licensing Act
Lapse of the Licensing Act
Displacement [Verschiebung]
Latin Riddles [enigmata]
Lebenswelt [Lifeworld]
Leitmotiv, Leitmotif
Liberal Anglican Historiography
Library of America
Licensing Act
Lisbon Earthquake
Literature of the GDR
Literature of the Weimar Republic
Litotes
Logocentrism
Luddites
Lyric
Magic Realism, Magical Realism
Magna Carta
Margaret Thatcher
Marriage Act
Marriage Act [Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act]
Marroon [Maroon] Slaves
Martin Marprelate
Maxims (Old English)
Medieval Manuscript Culture
Meiosis
Displacement [Verschiebung]
Metafiction
Metaphor
Metaphysical Poets
Metonymy
Metre / Meter
Metropol’
Middle Ages
Middle English Lyric 1100-1500
Millbank Penitentiary opens
Minnesang
Mirror Stage, The
Modern Tragedy
Modernism
Monmouth’s Rebellion
Motif
Music in Anglo-Saxon England
Myth
Narcissus and Echo
Narrative
Narratology
Naturalism
Negative Capability
Neo-Classicism, Neoclassicism
Neville Chamberlain
New Criticism
New Woman novelists
New Zealand Association founded
Newcomen erects first Steam Engine
Newgate Prison
Newman converts to catholicism
Newton’ Laws of Motion
Nine Years War, War of the League of Augsburg, War of the Grand Alliance, King Williams' War, War of the English Succession
Nostalgia
Novel of Circulation (It-Narrative, Circulation Narrative)
Object Relations
Objective Correlative
Octosyllabic
Ode
Old English Charms
Old English Heroic Poetry
Old English Homilies (Homily)
Old English Poetic Form
Onomatopoeia
Opening of Japan
Opera
Anal Phase
Ossian
Ottava Rima
Anal Phase
Anal Phase
Oxford Movement
Oxymoron
Paen
Panegyric
Parapraxis
Paris-London Telegraph
Partition of Palestine, creation of a Jewish state
Party Names Whig and Tory come into use
Pastoral
Pathetic Fallacy
Penitentiary Act
Pentameter
Periphrasis
Persona
Personification
Peterloo Massacre
Phallic, The
Phenomenology
Phenomenology of Language
Photography, its Invention and Early History
Picaresque novel
Picturesque
Platonism, Neo-Platonism, Neoplatonism
Poet
Poetic Licence
Political Economy
Poor Law
Popish Plot and the Exclusion Crisis
Portion
Post-conquest Old English Literature
Postal Services and Letters
PostImpressionism, Post-Impressionism
Phallic, The
Prime Meridian Conference
Primogeniture
Projection
Prosody
Prosopopoeia
Prothalamion
Proverbs (Old English)
Prussia
Publication of the Tyndale Bible
Pun
Quantum Mechanics
Quatrain
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Mary I
Röntgen discovers the X-ray
Radium, Discovery of
Railway Mania
Real
Real
Realism (Literary)
Projection
Reconstruction of Saint Sophia in Constantinople
Reformation Parliament in England
Regency Crisis, Madness of George III
Relativity
Repeal of the Corn Laws
Repetition Compulsion
Repetition Compulsion
Restriction Act suspends specie payment by banks until one year after the end of the war.
Rhapsody
Rhetoric
Rhetorical Question
Rhyme
Rhyme Royal
Rhyme Scheme
Rising Metre
Roanoke Colony founded
Robin Hood
Roman a clef
Romanesque
Romanticism
Run-on Line, Enjambment
Run-on Line, Enjambment
Russian Literary Scholarship, 1830-1917
Russian Postmodernism
Sagas of Icelanders [The Icelandic Family Sagas]
Salem Witchcraft Trials
Samuel Morse granted a patent for electrical telegraphic transmission
San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
Satire and the Academic Novel
Satire
Scansion
Schlieffen Plan
Second Reform Bill - Representation of the People Act
Second World War begins
Secondary Revision
Semiotics, Semiology
Sestet
Seven Years' War
Shakespeare in Opera
Ship Money
Sign, The
Simile
Six Articles
Slavery, Slave Trade, The Triangular Trade
Sonnet
South Australia Act (South Australian Colonisation Act, Foundation Act)
South Sea Bubble
Soviet Literature - Samizdat, Tamizdat and Gosizdat publishing
Soviet Literature - Glasnost’
Soviet Literature - Perestroika [Reconstruction]
Soviet Literature - The “Thaw”
Soviet Literature - The Purges
(Soviet) Socialist Realism
Spanish Armada
Spenserian Stanza
Spiritual Autobiography
Repetition Compulsion
Spondee
Sprung Rhythm
St. Bartholomew Day's Massacre
St Brendan
Stage Licensing Act
Stamp Act
Stanhope Press
Stanley descends the Congo
Stanza
Stream of consciousness
Sturm und Drang [Storm and Stress]
Sublime
Submission of the Clergy
Super-Ego [Über-Ich]
Surrealism
Swiss-German Literature, 1945-2000
Symbolic Order, The
Synaesthesia
Synecdoche
Tara Arts Theatre Company
Tasman lands in Van Dieman's Land
Taste
Ten Hours Act
Tercet
Terza Rima
Test Act
Tetrameter
The ‘Playboy’Riots
The “Doctor’s Plot”
The 1696 Recoinage
The Abbey Theatre / The Irish National Theatre
The American Revenue Act (Molasses Act / Sugar Act amended to tax American Colonies
The Apocrypha
The Battle of Cable Street
The Bible as Literature
The Death Drive [Todestriebe]
The English Landscape Garden
The Gospels
The Goths
The Grand Tour
The Holocaust
The Huns
The Lollard Knights
The New York School
The Phallic Stage
The Pilgrimage of Grace
Phallic, The
The Queen Caroline Affair
The Sexual Offences Act
The Stationers’ Company
The Thirty-Nine Articles
The Titanic
The Uncanny
The Union Of Soviet Writers (1932-1991)
The Visigoths
Theatre of the Absurd
Thirty Years' War
Threnody
Thriller (Noir)
Tithes
Topos
Tragedy
Transference
Treaty of Nonesuch
Treaty of Ryswick (Rijswijk)
Treaty of Verdun divides the Carolingian empire
Treaty of Waitangi
Trial of Warren Hastings
Tristan and Isolde (also known as Tristan and Iseult, Tristan and Isolt, Tristram)
Trope
Troubadours
Turkey besieges Vienna
Umwelt
Unconscious, The
Unification of English and Welsh systems of government.
Utilitarianism
Vandals Sack Rome
Vauban forts constructed in continental Europe
Verisimilitude
Vikings
Village Prose (Soviet Russian)
Visigoths under Alaric sack Rome
Vorticism
War of the Austrian Succession
War of the Spanish Succession
Watt's Steam Engine patented
Weimar Classicism
Whig Historiography
Whigs
Wisdom Literature (Old English)
Wit
Witchcraft Craze in East Anglia
Wolfenden Report
Women Writers' Suffrage League
Women's Liberation Movement
Wood’s Halfpence
Zeugma
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