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2.Literary Chariacteristics of the Age
✓the main literary steam ---realism ✓the main characters of the works---common men ✓concentrations---describe the daily life ✓Literature:newspaper(newborn),books,magazine s,pamphlets) ✓An age of pose--poetry was inadequate (Addison,Steele,Swift and Fielding) ✓Novel writing:common people instead of kings and nobles ✓Writing device--satire(Pope,Swift and Fielding)
three general heads:the reign of neo-classicism the appearance of pre-romantic poetty the beginning of modern novels
The three stages of the enlightenment
chiefly in novels(Laurence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith) pre-romanticism--poetry(minor poets,William Blake and Robert Burns) the important dramatist--Richard Brinsley Sheridan( realistic playwright) Conlusion:literature of the 18th century--complex
3.English Literature in the Three Stages of the
Enligthenment
a.the first period(Glorious Revolution --the end of the 1730s)
neo-classicism in poetry(Alexander Pope) a new pose literature appeared--essays of Addison,Steele;the first realistic fiction of Defoe and Swift(major author)
• the tried to make English literature conform to rules and principles established by the great Roman and Greek classical writers.(in writing plays , using rhyming couplet instead of blank verse ; they observed the unities of time , place and action ; and poetry should follow the ancient divisions).
(from the glorious revolution to the end of the 1730s)
• Literature: Neo-Classicism
Neo-Classicism
• Features:
• writers endeavored to imitate the characteristics of the Roman writers who made Roman literature famous in the days of Augustus , such as Horace , Virgil , Cicero.
a .moderate group--support the principles of the existing society (Alexander Pope,Joseph Addison,Richard Steele,Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson) b.radical group--struggle for a resolute democratisation(Jonathan Swift,Henry Fielding,Tobias Gorge Smollett,Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
• the first period---the early period
(from the glorious revolution to the end of the 1730s)
• Literature: Neo-Classicism
The second period---the mature period
b.the second period(1740s-1750s,mature)
novels of Richardson,Fielding and Smollett
c.the third period(the last few decades of the 18th century)
new literary tendencies : sentimentalism --poetry(Edward Young and Thomas Gray)
(1740s-1750s) novel: Richardson, Fielding, Smollett
• The third period---the last period
(1760s-1800s)
• sentimentalism & pre-romanticism
• the first period---the early period
English Literature in the 18th Centry
Group 4
Introduction
1.Enlightenment--Western Europe,18th
a progressive intellectual movement the struggle of the bourgeoisie against feudalism English enlighteners differ from those of France most English writers are enlighteners
2.Literary Chariacteristics of the Age
✓the main literary steam ---realism ✓the main characters of the works---common men ✓concentrations---describe the daily life ✓Literature:newspaper(newborn),books,magazine s,pamphlets) ✓An age of pose--poetry was inadequate (Addison,Steele,Swift and Fielding) ✓Novel writing:common people instead of kings and nobles ✓Writing device--satire(Pope,Swift and Fielding)
three general heads:the reign of neo-classicism the appearance of pre-romantic poetty the beginning of modern novels
The three stages of the enlightenment
chiefly in novels(Laurence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith) pre-romanticism--poetry(minor poets,William Blake and Robert Burns) the important dramatist--Richard Brinsley Sheridan( realistic playwright) Conlusion:literature of the 18th century--complex
3.English Literature in the Three Stages of the
Enligthenment
a.the first period(Glorious Revolution --the end of the 1730s)
neo-classicism in poetry(Alexander Pope) a new pose literature appeared--essays of Addison,Steele;the first realistic fiction of Defoe and Swift(major author)
• the tried to make English literature conform to rules and principles established by the great Roman and Greek classical writers.(in writing plays , using rhyming couplet instead of blank verse ; they observed the unities of time , place and action ; and poetry should follow the ancient divisions).
(from the glorious revolution to the end of the 1730s)
• Literature: Neo-Classicism
Neo-Classicism
• Features:
• writers endeavored to imitate the characteristics of the Roman writers who made Roman literature famous in the days of Augustus , such as Horace , Virgil , Cicero.
a .moderate group--support the principles of the existing society (Alexander Pope,Joseph Addison,Richard Steele,Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson) b.radical group--struggle for a resolute democratisation(Jonathan Swift,Henry Fielding,Tobias Gorge Smollett,Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
• the first period---the early period
(from the glorious revolution to the end of the 1730s)
• Literature: Neo-Classicism
The second period---the mature period
b.the second period(1740s-1750s,mature)
novels of Richardson,Fielding and Smollett
c.the third period(the last few decades of the 18th century)
new literary tendencies : sentimentalism --poetry(Edward Young and Thomas Gray)
(1740s-1750s) novel: Richardson, Fielding, Smollett
• The third period---the last period
(1760s-1800s)
• sentimentalism & pre-romanticism
• the first period---the early period
English Literature in the 18th Centry
Group 4
Introduction
1.Enlightenment--Western Europe,18th
a progressive intellectual movement the struggle of the bourgeoisie against feudalism English enlighteners differ from those of France most English writers are enlighteners