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What is a Literary Period?

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In this introductory lecture, Clare Bucknell considers how we define a literary period and highlights some of the problems with period boundaries, drawing examples from texts written from circa 1660 to circa 1760.

Date Published: 11 March 2019
Contributors:
Clare Bucknell
In Collection(s): Reformation and Restoration, Economic and Social Literary Criticism
Keywords:
periodization, Restoration Literature, eighteenth century
Source:
University of Oxford Podcasts
Cite: What is a Literary Period? by Clare Bucknell at https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ via http://writersinspire.org/content/what-literary-period. Published on 11 March 2019. Accessed on 31 October 2025.

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