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Augustian age
(18 century)
to reference to the age of the Roman Emperor Augustus(who was kwown for his political and cultural reforms)
characterised by
political stability
social and economic prosperity
flowering of the arts
Historical and cultural context
The Restoration Period (1660-1689)
The growth of trade, commerce, and wealth in England
The restoration of the monarchy under
Charles Il.
The Glorious Revolution (1688-1689)
The overthrow of James Il and the establishment of a constitutional monarchy
monarch
freedom in the press
liberal thought
limitation of the monarch’s power
parliament
law “bill of rights” 1689
act of settlements in 1701
after the deat of queen Anne (1714) the successor had to be protestant
Augustian age begins with George the l
(1714-1727)
no civil wars
the two major political partiest:
(17th to the early 19th centuries)
Whigs
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Tories
George ll who succeded his father in 1727
reign dominated by two foreign wars
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“act of union”1707
Treaty of Utrecht 1713-1714
The Age of Enlightenment (1685-1815)
The rise of reason, rationalism, and scientific
inquiry
development of scientist revolution
experimental method based on the empirical reality
The growth of literary and cultural institutions,
coffeehouses
read newspapers
social,philosophy,political,cultural concerns
intelectuals from the upper classes
based on your occupation
salons
literary societ
the age of reason
the age of the middle class
some people could become nobleman
thanks to money
period of materialism and pragmatism
society centred on individualism
“self-made man”
a lot of poor
problems
disease
alcohol
gin
methodism
women freedom
colonial expansion
Captain Cook
age of the agricultural revolution
Literary Characteristics
Neoclassicism
The Rise of the Novel
“NOVUS” = A NEW GENRE
Real characters of the middle-class, self-made, practical and self-
reliant
Specific and scientific
Individual struggle or social progress
Hard work, profit, success, Puritanism
Prose
Plain, simple, realistic
Bookseller / middle-class
INCREASE OF THE READING PUBLIC
Most readers were middle-class or upper-class women
The interest of middle-class people in literature gave rise to:
Journalism
‘The Tatler’ (Steele)
‘The Spectator’ (Addison)
daniel defoe “The Rewiew”
A Current of General News,
the novel
THE AGE OF PROSE
A growing interest in reading
People used to borrow books from circulating libraries
COFFEE-HOUSES allowed the circulation of news and opinions
The novelist
Daniel Defoe
son of a family of dissenters to anglicanism
went to Newingtoon Green
begins writing in Whig’s
arrested when Anne becomes queen
“the shortest way whit the dissenters”
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after he refused the whig’s ideas
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the realistic novel
Jonathan Swift
the utopian novel
Samuel Richardson
the epistolary novel
Henry Fielding
the picaresque novel
Laurence Sterne
the anti-novel and the
sentimental novel
The novelist’s aim
To be understood widely
Realism
Speed and copiousness
ENTERTAINMENT
DIDACTIC AND MORAL CONCERN
Epistolary fiction