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THE AUGUSTAN AGE AND THE NOVEL
THE ENLIGHTENMENT
The Enlightenment denotes an intellectual movement which began in England in the 17th century.
contrasts with the darkness of irrationality and superstition.
Sapere aude!
(Immanuel Kant). Reason is man's central capacity.
THE AUGUSTAN AGE
The period after the Restoration is known as the "Augustan Age".
this age was characterized by:
-the influence of the growing of the middle classes
-the spirit of the Enlightenment
-much of the art and architecture of this period was characterized by a Neoclassical taste.
Pragmatism
and
Realism
ere essential elements in the growth of the new art form,
THE NOVEL.
LITERATURE IN THE AUGUSTAN AGE
poetry
Satire of the Restoration and mock-heroic poems were the two most important genres.
Mock-heroic poems
were a kind of satire in which an ordinary or foolish character is ridiculed by using heroic terms and giving him heroic dimension.
The greatest writer of mock-heroic poems of the Augustan age was
Alexander Pope
. One of Pope’s finest works is
The Rape of the Lock
(1714).
drama
After a successful period during the Restoration, the development of theaters was partly stopped by the
Theatres Licensing Act
. Introduced in 1737 by Robert Walpole.
One of the most important plays of the period is
John Gay
's
The Beggar's Opera
(1728).
prose
Prose writing also flourished in other forms:
pamphlet
,
journalism
and
essays
.
New social spaces for public debate:
literary clubs and coffee houses
.
Samuel Johnson
(
A Dictionary of the English Language
- 1755)
THE RISE OF NOVEL
A novel it's ‘
a fictitious prose narrative presenting a picture of real life’
.
There are several factors that led to the rise of the novel in the 18th century:
3)
the rise of philosophical rationalism and empiricism
4)
the influence of Puritanism and Methodism
2)
the expansion of the reading public
5)
the decline of drama
1)
the growth of the middle classes
Daniel Defoe
He wrote a novel called
Robinson Crusoe
.
It tells the story of a man who is shipwrecked off a desert island where he spends the next 28 years before being rescured.
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