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THE 18 CENTURY: (INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (Industrialisation of Britain…

- - - - More efficent use of land
    - - invention of mechanical ploughs, reaping machines.
      - People forced to search work in cities because agricultural revolution left many of them without jobs
- - - - science and philosophy
        
        Upper class women
        
        new ideas of freedom
      - literary salons
    - - education
      - newspapers and magazines
      - clubs and coffe-houses
- - - - The Glorious revolution
      - important parliamentary laws: the Bill of Rights, the Act of Settlement and the Tolleration Act
    - - THe restoration of the monarchy
    - - The Union Act
      - War of the spanish succession; and the Treaty of Utrecht
      - The triangular trade: African slave trade
      - two political parties:Tories and Whigs
        
        PRIME MINISTER
  - - - The seven years war
        
        Treaty of Paris
        
        William Pitt
    - - British empire; East India Company
      - The ribellion of the american collonies; American indipendence
      - discovery of new territories
    - - Parliamentary monarchay
      - predominantly Whig ministry
        
        ROBERT WALPOLE
- - - - realistic novel
        
        Crusoe and Defoe
      - utopian novel
        
        utopian fiction: Thomas More
        
        Guliver's Travels
        
        Jonathan Swift
        
        imperfect societies of the time
        
        bitter satire
      - epistolary novel
        
        POETRY
      - sentimental novel
        
        DRAMA
      - WOMEN HEROINES OF NOVELS
    - - NEED FOR REALISM
      - quick language
      - simple
      - concrete
      - day after day like in a diary
      - realistic details