Chapter III: Eighteenth Century English Literature LITERATURE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT (18th century) The 17th century was one of the most stormy periods of English history. The growing contradictions between the new class‚ the bourgeoisie‚ and the old forces of feudalism brought about the English Bourgeois Revolution in the 1640s. As a result of the revolution the king was dethroned and beheaded and England was proclaimed a republic. Though very soon monarchy was restored‚ the position of
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Geoffrey Chaucer (/ˈtʃɔːsər/; c. 1343 – 25 October 1400)‚ known as the Father of English literature‚ is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to be buried in Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey. While he achieved fame during his lifetime as an author‚ philosopher‚ alchemist and astronomer‚ composing a scientific treatise on the astrolabe for his ten year-old son Lewis‚ Chaucer also maintained an active career in the civil service as a bureaucrat‚ courtier
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English literature exam paper – Section A Question 1 • How does the writer present her thoughts and feeling about the struggle for identity? • How far is the extract similar to and different from your wider reading about the struggle for identity in modern literature? You should consider the writers’ choices of form‚ structure and language as well as subject matter. Betty Friedan has started her speech with two rhetorical questions‚ “Am I saying that women have to be liberated from men? That
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The English language had almost no prestige abroad at the beginning of the sixteenth century. One of the earliest sixteenth-century works of English literature‚ Thomas More’s Utopia‚ was written in Latin for an international intellectual community. It was only translated into English during the 1550s‚ nearly a half-century after its original publication in Britain. By 1600‚ though English remained somewhat peripheral on the continent‚ it had been transformed into an immensely powerful expressive
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English Literature: Charles Dickens Who was Dickens? Charles Dickens was a classic english literature writer. He was born in Portsmouth‚ South England on the 7th February 1812‚ to parents John and Elizabeth Dickens. Charles was sent to school at the age of nine‚ when his father had found good fortune. Later on‚ Charles was sent to work in Warren’s blacking factory and had endured appalling conditions. After three years he was returned to school to educate and to be a journalist. Maybe a writer
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MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE: AN OVERVIEW Dear Students‚ The purpose of this course is to encourage students to gain an awareness of‚ and insight into‚ the evolution of modern English literature. Students will become acquainted with writers‚ poets and playwrights such as Thomas Hardy‚ William Somerset Maugham‚ Oscar Wilde‚ George Bernard Shaw‚ Virginia Woolf‚ George Orwell‚ Henry Williamson‚ John Betjeman‚ Ted Hughes‚ Charles Causley‚ Samuel Beckett‚ Laurie Lee‚ Agatha Christie and John
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William C. Harmon and C. Hugh Holman provide us with this definition of the term “neoclassicism”: “The term for the classicism that dominated English literature in the Restoration Age and in the eighteenth century ... Against the Renaissance idea of limitless human potentiality was opposed a view of humankind as limited‚ dualistic‚ imperfect; on the intensity of human responses were imposed a reverence for order and a delight in reason and rules; the burgeoning of imagination into new and strange
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CENTURY The Silver Age of the European Renaissance 1. There was a sense of relief and escape‚ relief from the strain of living in a mysterious universe and escape from the ignorance and barbarism of the Gothic centuries –not referring only to Gothic literature. The dark period provokes that people want to change and improve their lifestyle when they entered the 18th century. There was a general desire to emancipate from the dark aspects of rural and dark living. 2. Sanity‚ culture‚ and civilization
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Jemima Nicole S. Francisco 2012-22524 BSE major in English Eng 22 Prof. Mike Falgui English Literature: Romanticism and Victorian I. Themes of English Romanticism in Literature "Romanticism" is a period‚ movement‚ or style in arts starting in the late 1700s and flourishing in the early 1800s‚ a time when the modern mass culture in which we now live was first taking form: the rise of nation-states as defining social and geographic entities‚ increasing geographic and social mobility
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ROMANTIC MOVEMENT IN ENGLISH LITERATURE Romanticism is a complex artistic‚ literary‚ and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe‚ and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution. In part‚ it was a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature‚ and was embodied most strongly in the visual arts‚ music‚ and literature‚ but had a major impact
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