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Late 17th/ early 18th century (Thomas Gray - "Elegy written in a…
Late 17th/ early 18th century
Augustan literature/Restoriation/Age of Reson, Enlightment/ Neo-Classicism
Restoration: 1660- Charles II comes back from exile, becomes elected king; 1688: Glorious Revolution; 1689: Bill of Rights; England becomes a Constitutional Monarchy
Steele & Addison -
The Spectator
(1711-1714)
pariodical
audience: middle class and women
aim: to educate and cultivate middle class readers
wide range of themes: polite behaviour, taste; literature,politics, philosophy;
Alexander Pope
Essay on Man
(1734)
philosophical/didactic poem in heroic couplets
Pastorals
"A discourse on Pastoral Poetry"
"Damon, or Spring"
The Rape of the Lock
(1712)
mock epic poem
Neo-Classiscist writer
Thomas Gray - "Elegy written in a country churchyard" (1750)
bridge between Neo-Classicism and Romanticism
graveyeard poetry; elegy;
decay, transitorinessm commom people
strict rhyme scheme/meter, choice of genre, shepherd aspect (NEO CL)
solitary tone, setting, common people, simple style (ROM)
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
(1726)
parody of travelogue
A Modest Proposal
satire
3 novel pioneers
Daniel Defoe -
Robinson Crusoe
(1719)
1st travelogue
fictional autobiography; 1st person;
Samuel Richardson -
Pamela
(1740)
epistolary novel; 1st person;sentimental novel;
Henry Fielding -
Joseph Andrews
(1742)
comic epic poem in prose;mock heroic (neo-classicist);
picaresque; intrusive/omniscient/authorial narrator;
satirises
Pamela
L.Sterne -
Tristram Shandy
(1759)
anti-novel;
ahead of its time (pre-modernist)
intertextual references; Hamlet;
formal experimentation of how to write a book
William Wycherley -
The Country Wife
(1675)
restoration comedy/comedy of manners
satirizes manners of a social class
wit important; complex plot
controversial for it sexual explicitness
Oliver Goldsmith -
She Stoops to Conquer
(1773)
comedy of manners; laghing comedy;