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    ------------------------------------------------- Restoration literature Restoration literature is the English literature written during the historical period commonly referred to as the English Restoration (1660–1689)‚ which corresponds to the last years of the direct Stuart reign in England‚ Scotland‚ Wales‚ and Ireland. In general‚ the term is used to denote roughly homogeneous styles of literature that center on a celebration of or reaction to the restored court of Charles II. It is a literature

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    Human beings almost always live in accordance to some definition. That definition‚ whether it stems from a religion‚ another being‚ the Earth‚ a God‚ or within oneself‚ causes one to embody a certain persona. And often‚ because people build relationships with other people‚ a group of humans living among one another begin to alter and mesh all of their individual definitions into one identity. This identity‚ or genre of definitions‚ then becomes a set of characteristics that define a specific length

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    The Position of Women in The Rover The end of the English Civil War gave a crushing defeat to feudalism and effected a permanent change in the existing social relations in England‚ with the establishment of the Puritan Commonwealth by Oliver Cromwell. There is no second though about how much Republicanism appealed to the multitude. Still‚ there were certain others who swore by tradition and the accepted codes of behaviour. In a period marked by swings between orthodoxy and modern attitude‚ the sacred

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    The English sonnet underwent changes in the 16th century. The most significant change would be how sonnets are now structured. The Italian Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced as two parts: 8 lines with the scheme of abbaabba and then six lines with the scheme of cdcdcd. This can be seen in Petrarch‚ Rima 140. However‚ William Shakeseare change how sonnets would be written. He came up with the Shakespearean sonnet with is fourteen‚ ten syllable lines with a certain rhyme scheme (abab cdcd

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    novel also owes a debt to Elizabethan drama‚ which was the leading form of popular entertainment in the age of Shakespeare. The first professional novelist—that is‚ the first person to earn a living from publishing novels—was probably the dramatist Aphra Behn. Her 1688 Oronooko‚ or The Royal Slave typified the early English novel: it features a sensationalistic plot that borrowed freely from continental literature‚ especially from the imported French romance. Concurrent with Behn’s career was that of

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    A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN was printed in 1929. It was written by Virginia Woolf – whose life was a tragedy in itself and finally ended in her suicide in 1941.The highly experimental characters of her novels established her as an important figure of British modernism. In 1928‚ Woolf was invited to deliver lecture at the women’s colleges of Cambridge - Newhem and Girton. The theme of her lecture was WOMEN AND FICTION.These lectures were expanded and complied into A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN. In her lectures‚ Woolf

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    Week 4: Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko 4. The relationship among the three cultures: English‚ Coramantien‚ native Surinam In her work Oroonoko‚ Aphra Behn discusses three different types of cultures‚ the first of which is one that the story’s narrator belongs to – the English. The narrator‚ a young British woman visiting the colony of Surinam‚ uses the pronouns "we" and "us" to differentiate the English from the two other groups of people‚ referred to as "them." Of these two groups‚ one consists of the

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    The origins of comedy are in the 5th Century BC. So this was in the Greek era- these plays were performed in Classical Athens as parts of festivals called Dionysia. These were performed on different days to tragedies. Greek comedies would be zany and would mock both political and philosophical ideas. Aristophanes a prolific writer of comedy during the 4th and 5th century BC he is first and foremost a political writer; a satirist most commonly known for mocking the politicians of the time. Aristophanes

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    VIRGINIA WOOLF’S A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN (1929): A FEMENIST READING -Aparna Mhetre Abstract Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own is a landmark of the twentieth-century feminist thought. It explores the history of women in literature through an unconventional and thorough investigation of the social and material conditions required for the writing of literature

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    Student B British Literature Prof. Gary Gutchess December XX‚ 20XX The Battle of the Sexes in British Literature‚ Part I Women and men have had a lot of different roles inside their communities‚ their political organizations‚ and even their families during the past 500 and 1000 years. Some of these were public‚ and some were private. Starting back in the Middle Ages women in general were undereducated‚ quiet and rarely mentioned in literature‚ but in the early modern period they become more able

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