Rape of the Lock and Mac Flecknoe are examples of this literary type
What is the mock epic?
100
The dominant literary figure of the mid-eighteenth century and renowned lexicographer
Who is Samuel Johnson?
100
A growing middle class and rising literacy rates helped create a cultural climate that made this literary type possible, made famous by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
What is the periodical essay?
100
Appreciation for classical ideals and tastes, and imitation of classical forms
What is Neoclassicism?
200
1688-89
What is the Glorious or Bloodless Resolution?
200
To delight and instruct
What is the purpose of literature during the Long Eighteenth Century?
200
One of the most prolific writers in the English language
Who is Daniel Defoe?
200
These social establishments were places of reading, conversation, and lively debate; patrons also engaged in an activity Mormons don't
What are Coffee Houses?
200
A philosophical movement that celebrates reason, the scientific method, and human beings' capacity to improve themselves and society
What is the Enlightenment?
300
1666
When was the Great Fire of London?
300
Iambic pentameter lines rhymed in pairs
What is the heroic couplet?
300
Like Gulliver, this writer is thought by some to be a bit of a misanthrope
Who is Jonathan Swift?
300
More writers of this class turned to publishing to make a living during the period, though they did so at their own peril
Who were women authors?
300
"Propriety of thought and words," dexterity and cleverness in conversation, intellectual acumen, a person who possesses these qualities.
What is Wit?
400
1701
When was the Act of Settlement, which declared Sophia, electress of Hanover, and her descendants, heirs to British throne?
400
A kind of satire in which the speaker attacks vice with contempt and indignation
What is Juvenalian Satire?
400
The heroine of her story asserts her sexual independence (though not without cost).
Who is Eliza Heywood?
400
A heightened interest in human subjectivity helped make this literatry type possible
What is the novel?
400
Those who adhered to this philosophy possessed a blatant disregard for authority or convention in moral and religious matters, and viewed humanity as naturally depraved
What is libertinism?
500
1798
What year did Wordsworth and Coleridge publish Lyrical Ballads?
500
This literary genre is considered by many scholars to be an eighteenth-century invention (Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is an example)
What is the Novel?
500
He wrote the most famous mock epic of the period
Who is Alexander Pope?
500
These cultural institutions re-opened following the Restoration of Charles II (they had been closed by those uptight Puritans during the Interregnum)
What are public theaters?
500
This movement celebrated emotion, sympathy, and the innate goodness of humankind, believing that virtue springs from natural impulses
What is sentimentalism, or the Culture of Sensibility?