CP+18th+Century+Literature

CP Brit Home = = = = =18th Century=



=Intro to the 18th Century= The 18th Century was time of peasants and kings, a time of plauges and luxury, and a time of literary genius. The 18th Century was a time of philosophy, science, and art. In this section we will be writing about the historical background, themes, styles, and a few authors of the 18th Century. rss url="http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/emforum/" link="true" number="15" date="true" author="true" enclosure="true" =Historical Background= The 18th century lasted from 1701  to 1800  in the Gregorian calendar . The French and American revolutions took place during the 18th century. Great Britain  became a major power worldwide with the defeat of France in the Americas... ==

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 * __Common Themes through the 18th Century__**
 * Began in the age of Enlightenment and gradually moved towards Romanticism
 * social upheaval
 * reversal of personal status
 * political satire
 * geographical exploration
 * comparission between natural state of man and civilized state of man

=Style= Historians soon learned not to assume that people in the past thought about and experienced life in the same ways that they did in their day. Something as basic to us as writing was quite different in 18th Century... =Authors= =7) References=
 * ==**Pepys**==
 * ==**Pope**==
 * ==**Lady Montague**==
 * ==**Swift**==
 * ==**Defoe**==
 * ==**Blake**==
 * ==**Gray**==