Engagements with Eighteenth-Century Literature
Engagements with Eighteenth-Century Literature
Robinson, Daniel
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Part One: Overview of Eighteenth-Century Literature Introduction
Political and Religious controversies
Union and Nationalism
Colonialism and Empire (including the slave trade)
Politics and Protest
Religion, Dissent, and Toleration
Revolution-"Glorious," American, French
Literacy, Publication, and Authorship
Text box: Grub Street
The Enlightenment
The Arts, particularly painting and music
Text box: Handel and the German influence
Critical Approaches
Context and contested history
Gender and Genre
Class
Form
Eighteenth-Century Genres
Drama and the English Stage (comedy, tragedy, pantomime, afterpiece, spectacle, opera, semi-opera)
Religious writing-sermons, hymns, apocalypse (Milton, Wigglesworth, Penn's Good Advice to the Church of England, Bunyan, Swift's A Tale of a Tub, Edwards, William Law, Hume, Wesley, Whitefield, Wollstonecraft, Malthus)
Poetry and Poetic Form
The Heroic Couplet
The Ode
The Hymn
The Ballad
The Sonnet Revival
Blank Verse
Fiction and the Novel (Defoe through Austen)
Text box: Defoe's short story "The Apparition of Mrs. Veal"
Essays for "Enlightenment"
Philosophy: Locke, Berkeley, Shaftesbury, Hume, Burke, Adam Smith, Gibbon, Wollstonecraft, Godwin
The Poetic Essay (Dryden, Pope, Akenside, Erasmus Darwin)
Journalism and the Press (Defoe, Addison, Steele, Franklin, Haywood, Johnson, Bell, Stuarts, Hunt, Gentleman's Magazine, Monthly Review, etc.)
Science writing (Newton, Locke, Hartley, Priestley, White, E. Darwin, Davy)
Literary Criticism (Dryden, Bysshe, Dennis, Johnson, Barbauld, Blair, Wordsworth)
Biography (Boswell, Johnson, Franklin, Southey)
Literature for and about Children (Isaac Watts, Defoe, Sarah Fielding, Newbery, Rousseau, Day, the Edgeworths, Wollstonecraft, the Taylors)
Eighteenth-Century Modes
Satire
Nationalism
The Amorous and the Erotic (pornographic?)
Pastoral, Georgian, Urban
Epistolary prose and verse
Realism and Romance
Sensibility, Gothic, Ludic
Part Two: Chronology
The "Long Eighteenth Century" I: Restoration (Dryden, Behn, Rochester, Congreve, Milton, Locke, Newton)
Satire on the page, Comedy on the stage
Text box: Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel
Aphra Behn and John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Paradise Lost, epic and nationalism
Locke, Newton, and the Enlightenment
Congreve, The Way of the World (1700)
The First Half by Decade
1701-10
Concerns about succession and national identity: the Act of Settlement, the War of Spanish Succession, the Act of Union
Text box: the Duke of Marlborough and his detractors
The rise of women writers-Finch, Egerton, Chudleigh, Centlivre, Manley
The Splendid Shilling and mock epic (Philips, Mandeville, Swift, and looking ahead to 1712 and Pope's Rape of the Lock)
The English stage after the Death of Dryden-Rowe, Farquhar, Centlivre, Vanbrugh, Cibber
Defoe the journalist
Text box: Copyright Act
1711-20
Whigs and Tories
The Urban Pastoral (Gay, Pope, Swift, Montagu)
Pope and Criticism (Bysshe, Dennis, Ozell, Parnell)
Addison, Cato, a Tragedy
The South Sea Company and the crash
The Spectator and the future of journalism
Robinson Crusoe
1721-30
Robert Walpole
(related) Pope and Swift at their best
Text box: The Beggar's Opera
Gulliver's Travels
Fielding the playwright
Steele, The Conscious Lovers
Haywood's Love in Excess and Defoe's Moll Flanders
Nature and Place (Thomson, Seasons; Defoe, Tour; Dyer, Grongar Hill; Thomson; Duck)
1731-40
Bourgeois Tragedy: Lillo, The London Merchant
Virtue, Optimism: Pope, Bolingbroke, Shaftesbury, Hutcheson
Text box: Leibniz, Theodicy
Wesley's Conversion
Pope's familiar epistles (and Swift's Verses)
The Dunciad(s)
The Licensing Act and the English Stage
Hogarth's prints
Mid-century: the 1740s
The Pamela controversy and the English Novel: Richardson, Fielding, Sarah Fielding, Haywood, Smollett
Graveyard Poets and Gray's Elegy (1751)
Warton, Collins, Gray, Akenside, and the Ode
Text box: The Pleasures of the Imagination
David Hume
The Jacobite Uprising
The Wesleys and the seeds of Methodism
Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes
The Second Half by Decade
1751-60
Benjamin Franklin and the Colonial "Enlightenment"
Edmund Burke
Johnson's Dictionary, Rambler, and Idler
The Seven Years' War and the Expansion of Empire
Rasselas, Candide, and Tristram Shandy
Garrick and Churchill, The Rosciad
Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
1761-70
Shakespeare (Garrick's Jubilee, Johnson's edition)
Text box: Mozart in England
Macpherson, Percy's Reliques, and antiquarian poetry (looks ahead to Chatterton)
Gainsborough, Reynolds, and the Royal Academy
Feeling and Sentiment: Goldsmith, Sterne, Mackenzie
The Stamp Act and related issues in America
1771-80
Goldsmith, Sheridan, and "laughing comedy" vs. "sentimental comedy"
Text box: The School for Scandal
American Independence and its British Intellectual Heritage
Phillis Wheatley's poetry and Pope
Nations and Empires: Adam Smith and Edward Gibbon
Captain Cook's voyages (looks ahead to Joseph Banks)
Priestley and Oxygen
Text box: Barbauld's "The Mouse's Petition"
Gordon Riots: Catholics and Dissenters in 18th-century England
Fanny Burney, Evelina
1781-90
Slavery and Abolition (including Olney Hymns, Yearsley, More, Equiano)
Burke, Hastings, and India (also looks back to Foote's The Nabob and forward to Sheridan's Pizarro)
Text box: the Bounty mutiny
Crabbe, Yearsley, Burns and a new rural poetry (also looks back to Goldsmith's Deserted Village and forward to Lyrical Ballads)
Cowper, The Task
Rewriting Restoration Comedy: Sheridan and Hannah Cowley
Women poets and poetic form: Seward, Smith, Williams
Text box: Female Celebrities Sarah Siddons (actress), Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
Fin de siecle: the 1790s
The Della Cruscans, Peter Pindar, and Serious Play
The Millennium and the End of the World (Priestley, Price, Coleridge)
Dissenters: Barbauld, "Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts" and Other Essays (to Wilberforce, on Wakefield)
The Revolution Debate (Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine, Godwin)
The Gothic (Radcliffe, Lewis, Brown, translations of Burger's ballads, looks back to Walpole's Castle of Otranto)
Early English Symbolists: Fuseli, Blake (with Goya, David; also Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery)
The Revolutionary Stage (Schiller, Inchbald, Holcroft, Godwin, Wordsworth, Coleridge)
Lyrical Ballads, Lyrical Tales, Metrical Tales (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Robinson, Southey)
Text box: Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"
Conclusion: The "Long Eighteenth Century" II: Wordsworth, Austen
Glossary of Key Terms
Annotated Further Reading
Works Cited
Index
Political and Religious controversies
Union and Nationalism
Colonialism and Empire (including the slave trade)
Politics and Protest
Religion, Dissent, and Toleration
Revolution-"Glorious," American, French
Literacy, Publication, and Authorship
Text box: Grub Street
The Enlightenment
The Arts, particularly painting and music
Text box: Handel and the German influence
Critical Approaches
Context and contested history
Gender and Genre
Class
Form
Eighteenth-Century Genres
Drama and the English Stage (comedy, tragedy, pantomime, afterpiece, spectacle, opera, semi-opera)
Religious writing-sermons, hymns, apocalypse (Milton, Wigglesworth, Penn's Good Advice to the Church of England, Bunyan, Swift's A Tale of a Tub, Edwards, William Law, Hume, Wesley, Whitefield, Wollstonecraft, Malthus)
Poetry and Poetic Form
The Heroic Couplet
The Ode
The Hymn
The Ballad
The Sonnet Revival
Blank Verse
Fiction and the Novel (Defoe through Austen)
Text box: Defoe's short story "The Apparition of Mrs. Veal"
Essays for "Enlightenment"
Philosophy: Locke, Berkeley, Shaftesbury, Hume, Burke, Adam Smith, Gibbon, Wollstonecraft, Godwin
The Poetic Essay (Dryden, Pope, Akenside, Erasmus Darwin)
Journalism and the Press (Defoe, Addison, Steele, Franklin, Haywood, Johnson, Bell, Stuarts, Hunt, Gentleman's Magazine, Monthly Review, etc.)
Science writing (Newton, Locke, Hartley, Priestley, White, E. Darwin, Davy)
Literary Criticism (Dryden, Bysshe, Dennis, Johnson, Barbauld, Blair, Wordsworth)
Biography (Boswell, Johnson, Franklin, Southey)
Literature for and about Children (Isaac Watts, Defoe, Sarah Fielding, Newbery, Rousseau, Day, the Edgeworths, Wollstonecraft, the Taylors)
Eighteenth-Century Modes
Satire
Nationalism
The Amorous and the Erotic (pornographic?)
Pastoral, Georgian, Urban
Epistolary prose and verse
Realism and Romance
Sensibility, Gothic, Ludic
Part Two: Chronology
The "Long Eighteenth Century" I: Restoration (Dryden, Behn, Rochester, Congreve, Milton, Locke, Newton)
Satire on the page, Comedy on the stage
Text box: Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel
Aphra Behn and John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Paradise Lost, epic and nationalism
Locke, Newton, and the Enlightenment
Congreve, The Way of the World (1700)
The First Half by Decade
1701-10
Concerns about succession and national identity: the Act of Settlement, the War of Spanish Succession, the Act of Union
Text box: the Duke of Marlborough and his detractors
The rise of women writers-Finch, Egerton, Chudleigh, Centlivre, Manley
The Splendid Shilling and mock epic (Philips, Mandeville, Swift, and looking ahead to 1712 and Pope's Rape of the Lock)
The English stage after the Death of Dryden-Rowe, Farquhar, Centlivre, Vanbrugh, Cibber
Defoe the journalist
Text box: Copyright Act
1711-20
Whigs and Tories
The Urban Pastoral (Gay, Pope, Swift, Montagu)
Pope and Criticism (Bysshe, Dennis, Ozell, Parnell)
Addison, Cato, a Tragedy
The South Sea Company and the crash
The Spectator and the future of journalism
Robinson Crusoe
1721-30
Robert Walpole
(related) Pope and Swift at their best
Text box: The Beggar's Opera
Gulliver's Travels
Fielding the playwright
Steele, The Conscious Lovers
Haywood's Love in Excess and Defoe's Moll Flanders
Nature and Place (Thomson, Seasons; Defoe, Tour; Dyer, Grongar Hill; Thomson; Duck)
1731-40
Bourgeois Tragedy: Lillo, The London Merchant
Virtue, Optimism: Pope, Bolingbroke, Shaftesbury, Hutcheson
Text box: Leibniz, Theodicy
Wesley's Conversion
Pope's familiar epistles (and Swift's Verses)
The Dunciad(s)
The Licensing Act and the English Stage
Hogarth's prints
Mid-century: the 1740s
The Pamela controversy and the English Novel: Richardson, Fielding, Sarah Fielding, Haywood, Smollett
Graveyard Poets and Gray's Elegy (1751)
Warton, Collins, Gray, Akenside, and the Ode
Text box: The Pleasures of the Imagination
David Hume
The Jacobite Uprising
The Wesleys and the seeds of Methodism
Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes
The Second Half by Decade
1751-60
Benjamin Franklin and the Colonial "Enlightenment"
Edmund Burke
Johnson's Dictionary, Rambler, and Idler
The Seven Years' War and the Expansion of Empire
Rasselas, Candide, and Tristram Shandy
Garrick and Churchill, The Rosciad
Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
1761-70
Shakespeare (Garrick's Jubilee, Johnson's edition)
Text box: Mozart in England
Macpherson, Percy's Reliques, and antiquarian poetry (looks ahead to Chatterton)
Gainsborough, Reynolds, and the Royal Academy
Feeling and Sentiment: Goldsmith, Sterne, Mackenzie
The Stamp Act and related issues in America
1771-80
Goldsmith, Sheridan, and "laughing comedy" vs. "sentimental comedy"
Text box: The School for Scandal
American Independence and its British Intellectual Heritage
Phillis Wheatley's poetry and Pope
Nations and Empires: Adam Smith and Edward Gibbon
Captain Cook's voyages (looks ahead to Joseph Banks)
Priestley and Oxygen
Text box: Barbauld's "The Mouse's Petition"
Gordon Riots: Catholics and Dissenters in 18th-century England
Fanny Burney, Evelina
1781-90
Slavery and Abolition (including Olney Hymns, Yearsley, More, Equiano)
Burke, Hastings, and India (also looks back to Foote's The Nabob and forward to Sheridan's Pizarro)
Text box: the Bounty mutiny
Crabbe, Yearsley, Burns and a new rural poetry (also looks back to Goldsmith's Deserted Village and forward to Lyrical Ballads)
Cowper, The Task
Rewriting Restoration Comedy: Sheridan and Hannah Cowley
Women poets and poetic form: Seward, Smith, Williams
Text box: Female Celebrities Sarah Siddons (actress), Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
Fin de siecle: the 1790s
The Della Cruscans, Peter Pindar, and Serious Play
The Millennium and the End of the World (Priestley, Price, Coleridge)
Dissenters: Barbauld, "Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts" and Other Essays (to Wilberforce, on Wakefield)
The Revolution Debate (Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine, Godwin)
The Gothic (Radcliffe, Lewis, Brown, translations of Burger's ballads, looks back to Walpole's Castle of Otranto)
Early English Symbolists: Fuseli, Blake (with Goya, David; also Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery)
The Revolutionary Stage (Schiller, Inchbald, Holcroft, Godwin, Wordsworth, Coleridge)
Lyrical Ballads, Lyrical Tales, Metrical Tales (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Robinson, Southey)
Text box: Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"
Conclusion: The "Long Eighteenth Century" II: Wordsworth, Austen
Glossary of Key Terms
Annotated Further Reading
Works Cited
Index
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Part One: Overview of Eighteenth-Century Literature Introduction
Political and Religious controversies
Union and Nationalism
Colonialism and Empire (including the slave trade)
Politics and Protest
Religion, Dissent, and Toleration
Revolution-"Glorious," American, French
Literacy, Publication, and Authorship
Text box: Grub Street
The Enlightenment
The Arts, particularly painting and music
Text box: Handel and the German influence
Critical Approaches
Context and contested history
Gender and Genre
Class
Form
Eighteenth-Century Genres
Drama and the English Stage (comedy, tragedy, pantomime, afterpiece, spectacle, opera, semi-opera)
Religious writing-sermons, hymns, apocalypse (Milton, Wigglesworth, Penn's Good Advice to the Church of England, Bunyan, Swift's A Tale of a Tub, Edwards, William Law, Hume, Wesley, Whitefield, Wollstonecraft, Malthus)
Poetry and Poetic Form
The Heroic Couplet
The Ode
The Hymn
The Ballad
The Sonnet Revival
Blank Verse
Fiction and the Novel (Defoe through Austen)
Text box: Defoe's short story "The Apparition of Mrs. Veal"
Essays for "Enlightenment"
Philosophy: Locke, Berkeley, Shaftesbury, Hume, Burke, Adam Smith, Gibbon, Wollstonecraft, Godwin
The Poetic Essay (Dryden, Pope, Akenside, Erasmus Darwin)
Journalism and the Press (Defoe, Addison, Steele, Franklin, Haywood, Johnson, Bell, Stuarts, Hunt, Gentleman's Magazine, Monthly Review, etc.)
Science writing (Newton, Locke, Hartley, Priestley, White, E. Darwin, Davy)
Literary Criticism (Dryden, Bysshe, Dennis, Johnson, Barbauld, Blair, Wordsworth)
Biography (Boswell, Johnson, Franklin, Southey)
Literature for and about Children (Isaac Watts, Defoe, Sarah Fielding, Newbery, Rousseau, Day, the Edgeworths, Wollstonecraft, the Taylors)
Eighteenth-Century Modes
Satire
Nationalism
The Amorous and the Erotic (pornographic?)
Pastoral, Georgian, Urban
Epistolary prose and verse
Realism and Romance
Sensibility, Gothic, Ludic
Part Two: Chronology
The "Long Eighteenth Century" I: Restoration (Dryden, Behn, Rochester, Congreve, Milton, Locke, Newton)
Satire on the page, Comedy on the stage
Text box: Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel
Aphra Behn and John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Paradise Lost, epic and nationalism
Locke, Newton, and the Enlightenment
Congreve, The Way of the World (1700)
The First Half by Decade
1701-10
Concerns about succession and national identity: the Act of Settlement, the War of Spanish Succession, the Act of Union
Text box: the Duke of Marlborough and his detractors
The rise of women writers-Finch, Egerton, Chudleigh, Centlivre, Manley
The Splendid Shilling and mock epic (Philips, Mandeville, Swift, and looking ahead to 1712 and Pope's Rape of the Lock)
The English stage after the Death of Dryden-Rowe, Farquhar, Centlivre, Vanbrugh, Cibber
Defoe the journalist
Text box: Copyright Act
1711-20
Whigs and Tories
The Urban Pastoral (Gay, Pope, Swift, Montagu)
Pope and Criticism (Bysshe, Dennis, Ozell, Parnell)
Addison, Cato, a Tragedy
The South Sea Company and the crash
The Spectator and the future of journalism
Robinson Crusoe
1721-30
Robert Walpole
(related) Pope and Swift at their best
Text box: The Beggar's Opera
Gulliver's Travels
Fielding the playwright
Steele, The Conscious Lovers
Haywood's Love in Excess and Defoe's Moll Flanders
Nature and Place (Thomson, Seasons; Defoe, Tour; Dyer, Grongar Hill; Thomson; Duck)
1731-40
Bourgeois Tragedy: Lillo, The London Merchant
Virtue, Optimism: Pope, Bolingbroke, Shaftesbury, Hutcheson
Text box: Leibniz, Theodicy
Wesley's Conversion
Pope's familiar epistles (and Swift's Verses)
The Dunciad(s)
The Licensing Act and the English Stage
Hogarth's prints
Mid-century: the 1740s
The Pamela controversy and the English Novel: Richardson, Fielding, Sarah Fielding, Haywood, Smollett
Graveyard Poets and Gray's Elegy (1751)
Warton, Collins, Gray, Akenside, and the Ode
Text box: The Pleasures of the Imagination
David Hume
The Jacobite Uprising
The Wesleys and the seeds of Methodism
Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes
The Second Half by Decade
1751-60
Benjamin Franklin and the Colonial "Enlightenment"
Edmund Burke
Johnson's Dictionary, Rambler, and Idler
The Seven Years' War and the Expansion of Empire
Rasselas, Candide, and Tristram Shandy
Garrick and Churchill, The Rosciad
Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
1761-70
Shakespeare (Garrick's Jubilee, Johnson's edition)
Text box: Mozart in England
Macpherson, Percy's Reliques, and antiquarian poetry (looks ahead to Chatterton)
Gainsborough, Reynolds, and the Royal Academy
Feeling and Sentiment: Goldsmith, Sterne, Mackenzie
The Stamp Act and related issues in America
1771-80
Goldsmith, Sheridan, and "laughing comedy" vs. "sentimental comedy"
Text box: The School for Scandal
American Independence and its British Intellectual Heritage
Phillis Wheatley's poetry and Pope
Nations and Empires: Adam Smith and Edward Gibbon
Captain Cook's voyages (looks ahead to Joseph Banks)
Priestley and Oxygen
Text box: Barbauld's "The Mouse's Petition"
Gordon Riots: Catholics and Dissenters in 18th-century England
Fanny Burney, Evelina
1781-90
Slavery and Abolition (including Olney Hymns, Yearsley, More, Equiano)
Burke, Hastings, and India (also looks back to Foote's The Nabob and forward to Sheridan's Pizarro)
Text box: the Bounty mutiny
Crabbe, Yearsley, Burns and a new rural poetry (also looks back to Goldsmith's Deserted Village and forward to Lyrical Ballads)
Cowper, The Task
Rewriting Restoration Comedy: Sheridan and Hannah Cowley
Women poets and poetic form: Seward, Smith, Williams
Text box: Female Celebrities Sarah Siddons (actress), Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
Fin de siecle: the 1790s
The Della Cruscans, Peter Pindar, and Serious Play
The Millennium and the End of the World (Priestley, Price, Coleridge)
Dissenters: Barbauld, "Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts" and Other Essays (to Wilberforce, on Wakefield)
The Revolution Debate (Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine, Godwin)
The Gothic (Radcliffe, Lewis, Brown, translations of Burger's ballads, looks back to Walpole's Castle of Otranto)
Early English Symbolists: Fuseli, Blake (with Goya, David; also Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery)
The Revolutionary Stage (Schiller, Inchbald, Holcroft, Godwin, Wordsworth, Coleridge)
Lyrical Ballads, Lyrical Tales, Metrical Tales (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Robinson, Southey)
Text box: Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"
Conclusion: The "Long Eighteenth Century" II: Wordsworth, Austen
Glossary of Key Terms
Annotated Further Reading
Works Cited
Index
Political and Religious controversies
Union and Nationalism
Colonialism and Empire (including the slave trade)
Politics and Protest
Religion, Dissent, and Toleration
Revolution-"Glorious," American, French
Literacy, Publication, and Authorship
Text box: Grub Street
The Enlightenment
The Arts, particularly painting and music
Text box: Handel and the German influence
Critical Approaches
Context and contested history
Gender and Genre
Class
Form
Eighteenth-Century Genres
Drama and the English Stage (comedy, tragedy, pantomime, afterpiece, spectacle, opera, semi-opera)
Religious writing-sermons, hymns, apocalypse (Milton, Wigglesworth, Penn's Good Advice to the Church of England, Bunyan, Swift's A Tale of a Tub, Edwards, William Law, Hume, Wesley, Whitefield, Wollstonecraft, Malthus)
Poetry and Poetic Form
The Heroic Couplet
The Ode
The Hymn
The Ballad
The Sonnet Revival
Blank Verse
Fiction and the Novel (Defoe through Austen)
Text box: Defoe's short story "The Apparition of Mrs. Veal"
Essays for "Enlightenment"
Philosophy: Locke, Berkeley, Shaftesbury, Hume, Burke, Adam Smith, Gibbon, Wollstonecraft, Godwin
The Poetic Essay (Dryden, Pope, Akenside, Erasmus Darwin)
Journalism and the Press (Defoe, Addison, Steele, Franklin, Haywood, Johnson, Bell, Stuarts, Hunt, Gentleman's Magazine, Monthly Review, etc.)
Science writing (Newton, Locke, Hartley, Priestley, White, E. Darwin, Davy)
Literary Criticism (Dryden, Bysshe, Dennis, Johnson, Barbauld, Blair, Wordsworth)
Biography (Boswell, Johnson, Franklin, Southey)
Literature for and about Children (Isaac Watts, Defoe, Sarah Fielding, Newbery, Rousseau, Day, the Edgeworths, Wollstonecraft, the Taylors)
Eighteenth-Century Modes
Satire
Nationalism
The Amorous and the Erotic (pornographic?)
Pastoral, Georgian, Urban
Epistolary prose and verse
Realism and Romance
Sensibility, Gothic, Ludic
Part Two: Chronology
The "Long Eighteenth Century" I: Restoration (Dryden, Behn, Rochester, Congreve, Milton, Locke, Newton)
Satire on the page, Comedy on the stage
Text box: Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel
Aphra Behn and John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Paradise Lost, epic and nationalism
Locke, Newton, and the Enlightenment
Congreve, The Way of the World (1700)
The First Half by Decade
1701-10
Concerns about succession and national identity: the Act of Settlement, the War of Spanish Succession, the Act of Union
Text box: the Duke of Marlborough and his detractors
The rise of women writers-Finch, Egerton, Chudleigh, Centlivre, Manley
The Splendid Shilling and mock epic (Philips, Mandeville, Swift, and looking ahead to 1712 and Pope's Rape of the Lock)
The English stage after the Death of Dryden-Rowe, Farquhar, Centlivre, Vanbrugh, Cibber
Defoe the journalist
Text box: Copyright Act
1711-20
Whigs and Tories
The Urban Pastoral (Gay, Pope, Swift, Montagu)
Pope and Criticism (Bysshe, Dennis, Ozell, Parnell)
Addison, Cato, a Tragedy
The South Sea Company and the crash
The Spectator and the future of journalism
Robinson Crusoe
1721-30
Robert Walpole
(related) Pope and Swift at their best
Text box: The Beggar's Opera
Gulliver's Travels
Fielding the playwright
Steele, The Conscious Lovers
Haywood's Love in Excess and Defoe's Moll Flanders
Nature and Place (Thomson, Seasons; Defoe, Tour; Dyer, Grongar Hill; Thomson; Duck)
1731-40
Bourgeois Tragedy: Lillo, The London Merchant
Virtue, Optimism: Pope, Bolingbroke, Shaftesbury, Hutcheson
Text box: Leibniz, Theodicy
Wesley's Conversion
Pope's familiar epistles (and Swift's Verses)
The Dunciad(s)
The Licensing Act and the English Stage
Hogarth's prints
Mid-century: the 1740s
The Pamela controversy and the English Novel: Richardson, Fielding, Sarah Fielding, Haywood, Smollett
Graveyard Poets and Gray's Elegy (1751)
Warton, Collins, Gray, Akenside, and the Ode
Text box: The Pleasures of the Imagination
David Hume
The Jacobite Uprising
The Wesleys and the seeds of Methodism
Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes
The Second Half by Decade
1751-60
Benjamin Franklin and the Colonial "Enlightenment"
Edmund Burke
Johnson's Dictionary, Rambler, and Idler
The Seven Years' War and the Expansion of Empire
Rasselas, Candide, and Tristram Shandy
Garrick and Churchill, The Rosciad
Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
1761-70
Shakespeare (Garrick's Jubilee, Johnson's edition)
Text box: Mozart in England
Macpherson, Percy's Reliques, and antiquarian poetry (looks ahead to Chatterton)
Gainsborough, Reynolds, and the Royal Academy
Feeling and Sentiment: Goldsmith, Sterne, Mackenzie
The Stamp Act and related issues in America
1771-80
Goldsmith, Sheridan, and "laughing comedy" vs. "sentimental comedy"
Text box: The School for Scandal
American Independence and its British Intellectual Heritage
Phillis Wheatley's poetry and Pope
Nations and Empires: Adam Smith and Edward Gibbon
Captain Cook's voyages (looks ahead to Joseph Banks)
Priestley and Oxygen
Text box: Barbauld's "The Mouse's Petition"
Gordon Riots: Catholics and Dissenters in 18th-century England
Fanny Burney, Evelina
1781-90
Slavery and Abolition (including Olney Hymns, Yearsley, More, Equiano)
Burke, Hastings, and India (also looks back to Foote's The Nabob and forward to Sheridan's Pizarro)
Text box: the Bounty mutiny
Crabbe, Yearsley, Burns and a new rural poetry (also looks back to Goldsmith's Deserted Village and forward to Lyrical Ballads)
Cowper, The Task
Rewriting Restoration Comedy: Sheridan and Hannah Cowley
Women poets and poetic form: Seward, Smith, Williams
Text box: Female Celebrities Sarah Siddons (actress), Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
Fin de siecle: the 1790s
The Della Cruscans, Peter Pindar, and Serious Play
The Millennium and the End of the World (Priestley, Price, Coleridge)
Dissenters: Barbauld, "Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts" and Other Essays (to Wilberforce, on Wakefield)
The Revolution Debate (Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine, Godwin)
The Gothic (Radcliffe, Lewis, Brown, translations of Burger's ballads, looks back to Walpole's Castle of Otranto)
Early English Symbolists: Fuseli, Blake (with Goya, David; also Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery)
The Revolutionary Stage (Schiller, Inchbald, Holcroft, Godwin, Wordsworth, Coleridge)
Lyrical Ballads, Lyrical Tales, Metrical Tales (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Robinson, Southey)
Text box: Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"
Conclusion: The "Long Eighteenth Century" II: Wordsworth, Austen
Glossary of Key Terms
Annotated Further Reading
Works Cited
Index
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