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| 10712635060 | Medival | referring to the Middle Ages, the period in European history from about 475 to 1450 | 0 | |
| 10712638613 | Renaissance | "rebirth"; following the Middle Ages, a movement that centered on the revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome | 1 | |
| 10712638614 | Enlightenment | A movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions. | 2 | |
| 10712641240 | Romantic | Movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century; emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of all the past and nature, preferring the medieval rather than the classical. It was partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment, and the scientific rationalization of nature—all components of modernity. | 3 | |
| 10712646422 | Transcendentalism | A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1830's and 1840's, in which each person has direct communication with God and Nature, and there is no need for organized churches. It incorporated the ideas that mind goes beyond matter, intuition is valuable, that each soul is part of the Great Spirit, and each person is part of a reality where only the invisible is truly real. Promoted individualism, self-reliance, and freedom from social constraints, and emphasized emotions. | 4 | |
| 10712651997 | Victorian Age | Reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (1837-1901). The term is also used to describe late-nineteenth-century society, with its rigid moral standards and sharply differentiated roles for men and women and for middle-class and working-class people | 5 | |
| 10712651998 | Realism | A 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be | 6 | |
| 10712659117 | Naturalism | A nineteenth-century literary movement that was an extension of realism and that claimed to portray life exactly as it was. | 7 | |
| 10712659118 | Modernism | A cultural movement embracing human empowerment and rejecting traditionalism as outdated during the first third of the twentieth century. Rationality, industry, and technology were cornerstones of progress and human achievement. | 8 | |
| 10712674450 | Existentialism | 20th century philosophy that is centered upon the analysis of existence and of the way humans find themselves existing in the world. The notion is that humans exist first and then each individual spends a lifetime changing their essence or nature. | 9 | |
| 10712680089 | Beat Generation | A group of American writers in the 1950s and 1960s who sought release and illumination though a bohemian counterculture of sex, drugs, and Zen Buddhism. Writers such as Jack Kerouac (On The Road) and Allen Ginsberg (Howl) gained fame by giving readings in coffeehouses, often accompanied by jazz music. | 10 | |
| 10712695148 | Post Modernism | a late-20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any notion of "art." | 11 |
