English Literature from the Restoration

Both the form and content of literature today owes much to the developments that took place in England between the Restoration and Romantic periods. The emergence of the novel triggered the creation of new genres and accompanied a rise in literacy throughout the country. As new dimensions were added to both poetry and prose, writers explored new styles and voices to articulate a fuller emotional range. This volume examines the English writers who helped shape the social, political, and religious climate of the age, and immerses students in the history of narratives that continue to enchant audiences today.

Introduction	p. 8
Restoration Literature	p. 17
The Defeated Republicans	p. 20
Writings of the Nonconformists	p. 22
Writings of the Royalists	p. 26
Major Genres and Authors of the Period	p. 27
Chroniclers	p. 29
Diarists	p. 30
The Court Wits	p. 43
John Dryden	p. 45
Heroic Play	p. 46
Beast Fable	p. 48
Drama by Dryden and Others	p. 49
The 18th Century	p. 51
Publication of Political Material	p. 52
Periodical Journalism	p. 53
The Tatler and the Spectator	p. 55
Major Political Writers	p. 58
Alexander Pope	p. 59
Thomson, Prior, and Gay	p. 68
Swift	p. 69
Shaftesbury and Others	p. 78
Major Novelists	p. 81
Daniel Defoe	p. 81
Samuel Richardson	p. 82
Epistolary Novel	p. 89
Henry Fielding	p. 90
Sarah Fielding	p. 95
Tobias Smollett	p. 96
Picaresque Novel	p. 100
Laurence Sterne	p. 102
Sentimental Novel	p. 107
Fanny Burney	p. 108
Poets and Poetry after Pope	p. 111
Robert Burns	p. 113
Oliver Goldsmith	p. 121
Samuel Johnson's Poetry and Prose	p. 121
James Boswell	p. 124
18th-century Drama	p. 126
Comedy of Manners	p. 132
The Romantic Period	p. 134
Poetry	p. 134
The Lake Poets	p. 137
The Major Romantic Poets	p. 137
Dorothy Wordsworth	p. 154
Other Poets of the Early Romantic Period	p. 194
Table Talk	p. 197
Other Poets of the Later Period	p. 197
The Novel	p. 198
Gothic Novel	p. 200
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	p. 202
Political Fiction	p. 203
Women and Prose Fiction	p. 204
Sir Walter Scott	p. 206
Discursive Prose	p. 213
Charles Lamb	p. 214
William Hazlitt	p. 217
Thomas De Quincey	p. 219
Drama	p. 221
Sentimental Comedy	p. 222
Patent Theatres	p. 225
Epilogue	p. 226
Glossary	p. 228
Bibliography	p. 230
Index	p. 232
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English Literature from the Restoration Through the Romantic Period

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