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  1. English literature

    English literature - Enlightenment, Satire, Novels: The expiry of the Licensing Act in 1695 halted state censorship of the press. During the next 20 years there were to be 10 general elections. These two factors combined to produce an enormous growth in the publication of political literature. Senior politicians, especially Robert Harley, saw the potential importance of the pamphleteer in ...

  2. 18th century in literature

    European literature of the 18th century refers to literature (poetry, drama, satire, essays, and novels) produced in Europe during this period. The 18th century saw the development of the modern novel as literary genre, in fact many candidates for the first novel in English date from this period, of which Daniel Defoe's 1719 Robinson Crusoe is probably the best known.

  3. Essays in Eighteenth-Century English Literature

    This volume contains a selection of the major essays written over a period of three decades by a distinguished scholar of eighteenth-century English literature. In each essay, Professor Landa attempts to show how cultural and intellectual assumptions and presuppositions of the age have been assimilated into the literary works. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the ...

  4. PDF Short Essay on Eighteenth-Century Literature

    Short Essay on Eighteenth-Century Literature. Select one of the following prompts, and respond to it in short essay form of approximately 500-800 words. Focus on creating a thesis statement that responds to the prompt, including relevant quotations, and referring to the texts you have studied as evidence. Once you have completed your short ...

  5. Essays in Eighteenth-Century English Literature

    ebook. This volume contains a selection of the major essays written over a period of three decades by a distinguished scholar of eighteenth-century English literature. In each essay, Professor Landa attempts to show how cultural and intellectual assumptions and presuppositions of the age have been assimilated into the literary works.

  6. The Restoration and the 18th Century

    Timeline. 1660: Restoration-Charles II, Stuart monarchy. 1662: Royal Society established. 1685: James, Duke of York, succeeds his brother Charles II. 1688: Glorious Revolution-James II deposed, William and Mary share the English throne. 1689: Bill of Rights-limits crown, affirms supremacy of Parliament. 1689: Toleration Act-religious ...

  7. The eighteenth-century periodical essay (Chapter 20)

    The periodical essay is proper to a certain phase of periodical publication, which got its start in England during the Civil War but was not fully established until 1702, when the first true daily, the Daily Courant, began. In the early years, government control of the press had a powerful effect on periodical publication, which flourished most ...

  8. Early Eighteenth Century British Literary Criticism

    Literary criticism developed in the early eighteenth century as part of a broader cultural discourse that included moral philosophy, politics, aesthetics, science, and economics. For critics otherwise as different as Alexander Pope (1688-1744), Joseph Addison (1672-1719), and Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713), the study of literature offered a means to promote…

  9. Introductory Essay: Emotion, Affect, and the Eighteenth Century

    the eighteenth century. Far from rehashing tried and true readings, the applica-tions of the history of emotion and affect studies reshape how we read, under-stand, and think about eighteenth-century literature, history, politics, and philosophy. These essays best demonstrate the dynamic emotional life flourish-

  10. Eighteenth-Century Novel

    The "18th-century novel" used to refer to works primarily by Defoe, Fielding, Richardson, and Sterne, but it has long since expanded to include notable women writers such as Burney, Sarah Fielding, Haywood, Lennox, and Manley. The 18th-century novel also encompasses a broad range of subgenres, such as the picaresque, memoir fiction, the ...

  11. Restoration and Eighteenth Century English Literature: 1660-1789

    English Literature 1660-1700: Major Authors and Highlights. John Dryden. "A Song for St. Cecelia's Day," 1687; "Alexander's Feast," 1697; "Mack Flecknoe," 1682. Dryden was a significant Restoration writer. As England's first official Poet Laureate, he wrote plays, verses, and essays that comment on every important event of his ...

  12. 18th Century Literature (1700-1800): History of English Literature

    The 18th century was a period of significant social, political, and cultural transformation in Europe, and literature reflected these changes. Known as the Age of Enlightenment, the 18th century witnessed a shift towards reason, science, and intellectual inquiry. In this essay, we will explore the characteristics, major authors, and significant works of 18th century literature. One of the key ...

  13. Literatures in English: The Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1836

    Eighteenth-Century Fiction. 96 complete works of prose fiction from the most canonical authors, English Drama, which contains many plays from the Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and English Poetry are constituent parts of LiON (Literature Online). Click here for a separate LibGuide devoted to the Literature Online database.

  14. 18th & 19th Centuries

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  15. Library Guides: Literature in English: Eighteenth Century

    Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Chadwyck-Healey) A collection of 96 complete works of English prose from the period 1700-1780 by writers from the British Isles. Key figures covered include Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne and Jonathan Swift. In addition to a scanned version of Sterne ...

  16. 'Eloquence and Oracle': Tobacco in Eighteenth-Century Life and Literature

    Abstract. In a seventeenth-century play, tobacco argues for the superiority of its 'divine breath' in distilling eloquence and oracle upon the tongue. This essay argues that tobacco's arrival on European shores is reflected in two distinctive eighteenth-century literary genres, namely 'object'- or 'it'-narratives and the 'poetry ...

  17. The 18th century

    American literature - Colonial, Revolution, Enlightenment: In America in the early years of the 18th century, some writers, such as Cotton Mather, carried on the older traditions. His huge history and biography of Puritan New England, Magnalia Christi Americana, in 1702, and his vigorous Manuductio ad Ministerium, or introduction to the ministry, in 1726, were defenses of ancient Puritan ...

  18. The Profession of eighteenth-century literature : reflections on an

    The Profession of eighteenth-century literature : reflections on an institution. These essays bring together views on 18th-century literature which attempt to assess the status of this field of study. Among the perspectives from which the topic is viewed are new historicism, ideology, feminism, and cultural materialism and dialect.

  19. Literature and War in the Eighteenth Century

    Research into literature and war in the eighteenth century is shaped, if not quite determined, by a phenomenon that Maximillian Novak addresses in his 1992 essay "Warfare and Its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Or, Why Eighteenth-Century Fiction Failed to Produce a War and Peace."The origins of the essay lay in a conference Novak had attended two years earlier and the question ...

  20. (PDF) LITERATURE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

    See Full PDFDownload PDF. LITERATURE OF THE Age of good sense and reason The period is also called the age of reason and EIGHTEENTH CENTURY good sense, because it was based on the good - sense The Augustan Age or the Age of Pope ideal of the French critic Boileau. It was an age of en- lightenment when a literature which had become pellu- It was ...

  21. What were some features of eighteenth-century literature?

    One more main feature of eighteenth-century literature is the rise of the novel. During the 1700s, we saw the novels of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding. Many of these novels ...

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  23. The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire

    The novel, a genre that emerged during the eighteenth century, was from the beginning shot through with satirical colours borrowed from popular romances and scandal sheets. This handbook is a guide to the different kinds of satire written in English during the 'long' eighteenth century. It focuses on texts that appeared between the ...

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    Call for Papers: MMU PGR ECR Long Nineteenth Century Research Group. Reimagining Tradition: Exploring the Long Nineteenth Century Across Disciplines Date: 13 June 2024. Time: 16.00-19.00 BST Location: Online. The long-nineteenth century (1789-1914) was a period of profound change, innovation, and transformation across various domains of human ...

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    The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual is the leading venue for the critical reassessment of Eliot's life and work in light of the ongoing publication of his letters, critical volumes of his complete prose, the 2015 edition of his complete poems, and the forthcoming critical edition of his plays.. All critical approaches are welcome, as are essays pertaining to any aspect of Eliot's work as a poet ...