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Charles Haiheng Ling, School of Foreign Studies, SCNU Chapter2 The Neoclassical Period(1660-1798)新古典主义 163邮箱 用户名：studyliterature@163.com 密码：literatur The Neoclassical Period What we now call the neoclassical period is the one in English literature between the return of the Stuarts to the English throne in 1660 and the full assertion of Romanticism which came with the publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798. (P79 Para.1) The English society of the neoclassical period was a turbulent one. (P79) Historical background . Elizabeth I: 1558-1603, Elizabeth I died in 1603 .? James I: 1603-1625 political and religious tyranny .? Charles I: 1625-1649 .? Cromwell: 1649-1660 commonwealth protector: 1653-1658 .?? Charles II: 1660-1688 Restoration ( P79 Para.2) .??? James II: 1685-1688 Glorious Revolution 1689，the Bill of Rights was enacted by the English Parliament. It established the supremacy of Parliament and put an end to divine monarchy in England. In short, it was an age full of conflicts and divergence of values.总之，这一时期是矛盾与价值观分歧的时期。 (P79 Para.2 ) Historical Background England became a constitutional monarchy power passed from the King to the Parliament and the cabinet ministers Abroad, a vast expansion of British colonies P79 At home in the country, there appeared a market of free labor and free capital, thus providing the essential conditions for the rising of Industrial Revolution. England had become the first powerful capitalist country in the world. social spirit: self-restraint, self-reliance and hard work P80 the Age of Enlightenment , the Age of Reason. Enlightenment The Enlightenment Movement was a progressive intellectual movement which flourished in France and swept through the whole Western Europe at the time. The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. (P80 Para.3 ) Enlightenment Its purpose was to e