British literature
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British literature is the body of written works produced in the English language by authors from Britain, encompassing a long and diverse tradition from medieval texts to contemporary writing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| British literature canonical | 2 |
Statements (65)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary tradition
ⓘ
national literature ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
British Empire
ⓘ
British culture ⓘ English literary canon ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasPart |
British children’s literature
ⓘ
British crime fiction ⓘ British drama ⓘ British fantasy literature ⓘ British fiction ⓘ British non-fiction ⓘ British poetry ⓘ British postcolonial literature ⓘ British science fiction ⓘ Contemporary British literature ⓘ Early Modern English literature ⓘ Middle English literature ⓘ Modernist literature ⓘ Old English literature ⓘ Victorian literature ⓘ |
| influenced |
American literature
ⓘ
Commonwealth literature ⓘ World literature ⓘ |
| language | English language ⓘ |
| notableAuthor |
C. S. Lewis
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Charles Dickens ⓘ Charlotte Brontë ⓘ D. H. Lawrence ⓘ Emily Brontë ⓘ Geoffrey Chaucer ⓘ George Orwell ⓘ J. R. R. Tolkien ⓘ James Joyce ⓘ Jane Austen ⓘ John Milton ⓘ Jonathan Swift ⓘ Salman Rushdie ⓘ Samuel Johnson ⓘ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ⓘ T. S. Eliot ⓘ Thomas Hardy ⓘ Virginia Woolf ⓘ William Shakespeare ⓘ William Wordsworth ⓘ Zadie Smith ⓘ |
| notableWork |
1984
ⓘ
Beowulf ⓘ Great Expectations ⓘ Hamlet ⓘ Harry Potter novel series ⓘ
surface form:
Harry Potter series
Jane Eyre ⓘ Mrs. Dalloway ⓘ
surface form:
Mrs Dalloway
Paradise Lost ⓘ Pride and Prejudice ⓘ The Canterbury Tales ⓘ Ulysses ⓘ |
| periodIncludes |
Augustan literature
ⓘ
Modernist literature ⓘ Postmodern literature ⓘ Renaissance literature ⓘ Romantic literature ⓘ Victorian literature ⓘ |
| studiedAs | academic discipline ⓘ |
| traditionStart | medieval period ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.