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Literature in the Augustan Age (novel (18th Century (The rise begins) (the…
Literature in the Augustan Age
drama
was inhibited by
Theatres Licensing Act
that censored plays to prevent satirical attacks on the government
The Beggar's Opera (John Gay)
prose
flourished as
journalism
essays
pamphleteering
field of CRITICISM
Samuel Johnson
critic
The Lives of the Poets
lexicographer
A Dictionary of the English Language
poet
poetry (secondary importance)
continued the Restoration trend for
satire
mock-heroic poems
Alexander Pope
The Rape of Lock
narred the tension between two aristocratic families
Pope wrote this to end this dispute and to show how ridiculous it was
novel
18th Century (The rise begins)
the growth of the middle classes
that caused the expansion of the reading public
the rise of philosophical rationalism and empiricism
René Descartes
John Locke
focused on the experience of the individual
the influence of Puritanism and Methodism
the decline of drama
autors that didn't present straightfoward picture of real life
Frabcois Rabelais
Pantagruel
Miguel De Carvantes
Don Quixote
definition
fictitious prose narrative presenting a picture of real life