Englisch Literature 1650-1750
English Literature
English Literature
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Cartes-fiches
John Milton, Paradise Los
Milton: involved in hist. development
Rolemodels: Homer, Virgil
Complex sentences, iambic pantameter, unrhymed
First person narrator
About: man‘s first disobediance, explains features of life
Rochester, Sedely
Akzentuierung von Sexualität
Connection between them
Restauration of Monarchy
Specific Kind of Comedy
Social classes, devided country
Restauration Politics and poetry
Making fun of the political system
For the Upper classes
Topics: intrigues, adventures (sexual)
Restauration Theatre
Play, tradgedy
Antony and Cleopatra
Wife and husband arrive in London
Wife is looking for sexual Adventures
Critiques whiggs
Dryden, All for Love 1677
Theatre
Analysis of society (biogotry)
Moral writing, moral play
Entertaining Comedy
Man tries to lure women into sexual adventures
William Wyncherly, The Country Wife 1675
Autobiographical diary
Talks about sins
Allegorical journey about way to heaven
Everyone needs to build up a relationship with God
Gospel: evangelist nethaphorical structure
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim‘s Progress 1678
Bible
Pilgrim‘s Progress
Robinson Crusoe
Trinity of Books
Spiritual autobiography
Fictional literaure as sinful
Disapproving Protestants
Calvinist doctrin
P. Asked to have diarys to engange with God
Puritan Writing
Jokes at the expense of humans
Whigs and Torys
New Genres: essays and journals
Made fun of: politics, Sciences, colonialism
Englightenment
Freedom of speech
18th Century politics and satire
Story of three brothers, each of them represents a branch of christian religion
Satire
Discussion in Religous branches
Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub 1704
Satire in various topics
Sciences, politics, colonialism
Shipwrecked Travellor finds himself on various Islands
Jonathan Swift, Gulivers Travels 1726
Rolemodels in poetry (Homer)
Strong rules
Rule of reason
Satire
Assessors poetry according to rules
Neo-classicism
Satire in Other poets
Coffeehouse literature
Criticism through Satire
Rules for writers
Religous influence
Idea of nature and common sense
Literature to touch our hearts
Pope, An Essay on criticism 1771
Sketch of the „best of all possible worlds“ (Leibnitz)
Look at yourself „know theyself“
Anthropocentric
Pantheism: soul of God is inherit in nature
Morality
Pope, An Essay on Man 1733
Not Equal to Roman
Claims to depict Reality
middle class readership
Realistic elements
Rise of the novel
About colonialism
Prose fiction
Restauration Comedy
Nature
Sympathy for the suppressed
Aphra Behn, Oronooko 1688
Born in prison
No Parents to look After her
Middle class virtues
About women to men
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders 1722
Colonialism and nature
Autobiographical -> claims to be
C. Uses God and reason to survive
Developed out of spiritual autobiography
Middle class readers
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe 1719
Boss wants to marry her
About Moral behavoir of women
Samuel Ridchardson, Pamela 1740
Briefroman
Presented as literary work
Intention of author
Virgil and Homer
Middle and upper class readers
Realistic
Familiy brings up an Alien Lower class child (Adventures)
Picaresque novel
Henry Fielding, Tom Jones 1749
Speculation on God
Enlightenment
Sciences in England
Spinoza Ethics (nature laws, we are all Part of God)
Shaftsbury, Locke
Common Sense and Education
Mediative Poetry
For educated People
Bestseller
Seasons as Expressions of God
Iambic pantameter
Personifications
Theological arguements
Pantheism
James Thomson, The Seasons 1726-1730
Very Long poem in iambic pantameter
Bestseller
Person who cannot sleep because of malancholical night thoughts
Rationalism Vs. Night thoughts
God vs. Reason
Faith by agreement
Edward Young, Night Thoughts 1742-1745
Sentimental novel
Experimental
Violated principle of chronology
Narrator Adresses reader, small talk
Parody
Discussion
Pittying yourself, others, and the world
Post-modern novel
Means of controlling emotions
Laurence Sterne, Tristam Shandy 1759-1767
