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Literary background: - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Paradise Lost
- - - - Upper class
    - - The masterpiece of this genre is William Congreve's the Way of the World in 1700
        
        Witty language
        
        Relationship between social conventions and moral integrity
        
        Satire
      - Main themes: love and marriage
      - Puritan values
      - Defence of civic liberties
- - - - Journalism
        
        Their style - simple, lively
        
        Their aim - didactic
        
        Two mains title
        
        The Spectator (1711)
        
        The Tatler (1709)
      - Novel
        
        It is a long prose narrative about characters who may be imaginary or realistic, and plausible events
        
        Where the belief in the power of reason and the individual’s trust in his own abilities found expression
      - Diary
        
        The practice of reason and self-analysis
    - - Drift from the countryside to the towns (Especially London)
      - Coffeehouses became the centre of social life
        
        They promoted the circulation of ideas