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Lecture 5 An Introduction to Literature of The Age of Enlightenment  Expectations FOR SS: Acquire the definition of the relative literary terms: --- novel, realistic novel, character, plot, element, style --- elegy, sentimentalism, Gothic Novel Give your comments on --- Influence of Enlightenment Movement --- A brief analysis of Robinson Crusoe --- Characteristics of Swift’s essays --- Theme of Tom Jones --- Fielding’s Style --- A general Comments on Burns His Poems Part 1. Historical Overview 1702-1714 Queen Anne House of Hannover 1714-1727 King George I 1727-1760 King George II 1760-1820 King George III Part 1. Historical Overview Political Social Events During 18th cent. 1707, the union of England Scotland 1721, the first PM of the Cabinet in the government 1750-1757, invasion control of India 1756-1763, the Seven Years’ War with France 1765-1776, the War of Independence in North American colonies 1800, union of the Great Britain Ireland 1802, colonization in Australia Part 2. The Age of Enlightenment A progressive intellectual movement To enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical artistic ideas Celebration of reason or rationality, equality and science “Eternal truth, eternal justice, natural equality ” A furtherance of the Renaissance. Therefore,it also bears the name of Neoclassicism(1660—1798).(From France) Part 3. Divisions of literature during this period 1688-1730, Neoclassicism in poetry prose 1740-1750, realistic novels for the image of the rising, energetic optimistic bourgeoisie class The mid of 18th-century , a negative aspect of Enlightenment Movement—Sentimentalism 1760-1790, Pre-romanticism Gothic Novel. Part 4. Representatives of this period: British Essays: Addison; Steele ; Poem: Pope Heroic Couplet Novels: Defoe; Fielding;T.G. Smollet’s (satirical novels); Samuel Richardson (psychological analytical novels) Swift; Drama: