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Drama and Dramatists
Novels and Novelists
Historical and Cultural Contexts
Terms, Concepts, and Movements
Literary Characters
100
He set out to "chasten wit and moralize the stage" through his dramatic production.
Who was Richard Steele?
100
Her novels influenced Jane Austen.
Who was Francis Burney?
100
This, along with the monarchy, was "restored" after 1660. (It had been shutdown during the Interregnum)
What is the theater?
100
A blatant contempt for morality and religion; self-indulgence and gratification, particularly in sexual matters.
What is libertinism?
100
Not your typical female heroine--beautiful and charming, yes, but mercenary, manipulative, and even predatory (not unlike a libertine).
Who is Lady Susan?
200
The characters in this dramatic type experience violent emotional conflicts, usually between a sense of duty and their individual passions and desires.
What is Heroic Drama?
200
A "Tale of a fine young Lady"; or, how not to catch a good man/husband.
What is The Reform'd Coquet?
200
Protestantism, capitalism, and urbanization contributed to the rise of this concept, which helps to explain the novel's focus on human subjectivity.
What is individualism?
200
A celebration of feeling and emotion.
What was the Culture of Sensibility?
200
Returns her "diploma" when she decides to "kill characters no longer."
Who is Lady Teazle?
300
Samuel Johnson claimed of this play, "I know of no comedy for many years that has so much exhilarated an audience, that has answered so much the great end of comedy--making an audience merry."
What was She Stoops to Conquer.
300
“However I may feel myself enlightened by the knowledge of Johnson, charmed with the eloquence of Rousseau, softened by the pathetic powers of Richardson, and exhilarated by the wit of Fielding and houmour of Smollett, I yet presume not to attempt pursuing the same ground which they have tracked.”
What is novelty?
300
Passive, modest, and unassuming. Evelina in many ways is an exemplar.
What was the "ideal" woman in the eighteenth century?
300
This "controversy" spurred the development of Sentimental Comedy.
What was the Collier Controversy?
300
A man of feeling.
Who is Harley?
400
This playwright often included a critical preface with the published versions of his plays, which helps explain why Johnson dubbed him "the father of English criticism."
Who was Dryden?
400
“The works of fiction with which the present generation seems more particularly delighted are such as exhibit life in its true state, diversified only by accidents that daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions and qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind.”
What is probability?
400
A host of new literary types, including periodicals, auto biography and biography, travel literature, conduct literature, and novels, indicate that writers during the eighteenth century were tapping into the needs and wants of this group rather than that of wealthy patrons.
What is the market place or reading public?
400
This literary genre is essentially an eighteenth-century invention, though it didn't gain wide-scale cultural respectability until the nineteenth century.
What is the novel?
400
She was "no sooner told she was pretty, than she believed it."
Who is Amoranda?
500
This play spawned a sequel that featured a popular, though contemptible, character.
What was The Rover?
500
A term often associated with romance and writings for women, which explains why writers often described their works as "private histories" or, in one writer's case, a "comic-epic poem in prose."
What is novel?
500
Many of these folks were urban, ambitious, (socially) mobile, and young; many were likewise women.
Who were the readers of novels? Or, who were the new readers?
500
The Man of Feeling is an example of this literary type?
What is the sentimental novel?
500
More dangerous to Evelina's future happiness than Sir Clement (or at least it seems this way to Villars).
Who is Lord Orville?