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Medieval Age

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This roughly 1000-year period begins with the literary depictions of King Arthur in the Matter of Britain, often set in the 5th or 6th century, and extends to the Robin Hood legends, generally associated with […]
Entry Medieval Age
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This roughly 1000-year period begins with the literary depictions of King Arthur in the Matter of Britain, often set in the 5th or 6th century, and extends to the Robin Hood legends, generally associated with […]
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Modernism

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Between 1914 and 1937, American pulp magazines tended to package a century’s worth of artistic eras on the same newsstand. Even in the Machine Age, pulps carried the DNA of 19th-century Romanticism in tales of […]
Entry Modernism
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Between 1914 and 1937, American pulp magazines tended to package a century’s worth of artistic eras on the same newsstand. Even in the Machine Age, pulps carried the DNA of 19th-century Romanticism in tales of […]
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Modernism Era

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Between 1914 and 1937, American pulp magazines provided a century’s worth of artistic eras on the same newsstand. Pulps still carried the DNA of 19th-century Romanticism, as in the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Stories […]
Entry Modernism Era
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Between 1914 and 1937, American pulp magazines provided a century’s worth of artistic eras on the same newsstand. Pulps still carried the DNA of 19th-century Romanticism, as in the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Stories […]
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Prehuman Epoch

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A time before hominins, before 3.3 Mya, a time of primordial things… protean beasts, sulfuric crawlers, night gaunts, evil gods; where the creatures of the Mythos originated, followed by the dinosaurs. Era The Prehuman Epoch […]
Entry Prehuman Epoch
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A time before hominins, before 3.3 Mya, a time of primordial things… protean beasts, sulfuric crawlers, night gaunts, evil gods; where the creatures of the Mythos originated, followed by the dinosaurs. Era The Prehuman Epoch […]
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Realism and Victorian Age

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The Realism art movement portrayed life as it really was. Authors most associated with the Victorian – Dickens, Austin, the Bronte sisters – constructed stories around social issues. On the surface, Poe, Stoker, Verne, and […]
Entry Realism and Victorian Age
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The Realism art movement portrayed life as it really was. Authors most associated with the Victorian – Dickens, Austin, the Bronte sisters – constructed stories around social issues. On the surface, Poe, Stoker, Verne, and […]
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Renaissance

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Category Renaissance
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A 200-year period that includes Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press in 1440 and Dante’s (1265–1321) widely-shared printed editions of the Divine Comedy in 1481, which included woodcut illustrations. The era is highlighted by the […]
Entry Renaissance
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A 200-year period that includes Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press in 1440 and Dante’s (1265–1321) widely-shared printed editions of the Divine Comedy in 1481, which included woodcut illustrations. The era is highlighted by the […]
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Romantic Age

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The beginning of the 19th century saw individualism in the face of the “sublime” emphasized in the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, who celebrated Nature and the natural world. […]
Entry Romantic Age
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The beginning of the 19th century saw individualism in the face of the “sublime” emphasized in the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, who celebrated Nature and the natural world. […]
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Romanticism

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This 40-year period at the beginning of the 19th century emphasized individualism in the face of the sublime, with key poetry by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. These Romantics celebrated nature […]
Entry Romanticism
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This 40-year period at the beginning of the 19th century emphasized individualism in the face of the sublime, with key poetry by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. These Romantics celebrated nature […]
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Scientific Revolution

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This era, named for a rapid accumulation of knowledge, saw groundbreaking work published on electricity, optics, mechanical calculation, and the human body. The “science heroes” Copernicus in 1543, Kepler in 1609, Galileo in 1610, and […]
Entry Scientific Revolution
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This era, named for a rapid accumulation of knowledge, saw groundbreaking work published on electricity, optics, mechanical calculation, and the human body. The “science heroes” Copernicus in 1543, Kepler in 1609, Galileo in 1610, and […]
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Scientific Revolution Era

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This era was named for its rapid accumulation of knowledge. Groundbreaking work was published on electricity, optics, mechanical calculation, and the human body, launched in 1543 with Vesalius’ On the Fabric of the Human Body […]
Entry Scientific Revolution Era
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This era was named for its rapid accumulation of knowledge. Groundbreaking work was published on electricity, optics, mechanical calculation, and the human body, launched in 1543 with Vesalius’ On the Fabric of the Human Body […]