Restoration and 18th Century

The Restoration and Eighteenth Century

Terms to Know:

Act of Union (1029)
Test Act (1031)
Popish Plot (1678) (1031)
Jacobite (1032)
Toleration Act (1032)
asiento (*)
Tory (1033)
Whig (1033)
Seven Years' War (1034)
enclosure (1035)

dogmatism (1036)
epicureanism (*)
natural history (*)
natural philosophy *()
Deism (1037)
natural religion (1037)
empiricism (*)
sentimentalism (1038)
Cult of Sensibility (*)
Methodism (1038)

Stamp Act (1041)
bluestockings (1042)
Augustan (1044)
neoclassicism (1045)
heroic couplet (1047)
caesura (1047)
blank verse (1047)
comedy of manners (1048)

*Terms found in previous editions but not the 11th.

Discussion Questions:
1029:

When was Charles II restored to the English throne?

What was the Glorious Revolution? When did it occur?

1034:

Provide one claim or statistic provided by the editors about the rise of British slavery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

1037-38:

What, according to the editors, were some of the consequences of world exploration of the period?

1045:

What was the aim of the neoclassical writers?

1048:

What is a comedy of manners?

1049:

Describe the context that the editors say produced the modern novel.

1050:

How, according to the editors, did prose function in the latter half of the eighteenth century?

1052:

What did Gothic fiction involve?

1053:

What, according to the editors, did Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature pass on to the future?

Other Discussion Questions:
1031:

Why, according to the editors, were most Britons eager to welcome Charles Stuart back to England?

1033:

Describe the religious views of the Tories and the Whigs.

1034:

What two areas, according to the editors, became "central sites for Britain's imperial--and commercial--ambition" during the reign of George III (1034)?

1037:

Explain the significance of Mary Astell.

1039:

Explain: "The modern individual had been invented" (1039).
Why did publishing boom in 18th Century Britain?

1040:

What is "prior restraint"?
What, according to the editors, did the Stage Licensing Act of 1737 accomplish?
What was the Statute of Anne of 1710?

1041:

Explain publication by subscription.

1042:

Explain: "The vigor of the literary marketplace demanded the labor of all classes" (1042).

1044:

Explain the significance, according to the editors, of the reduction of the use of capitals and italics in printing during the second half of the eighteenth century.

1045:

On what meaning of "Nature" did Augustans focus?
Explain the "state of mind in which life assumes the form of perpetual allegory" (1045).

1046:

What "special language" was used by poets of the period?

1047:

Explain: "The eighteenth century brought poetry down to earth" (1047).

1048:

What are the characteristics of Restoration literature?

1050:

Why, according to the editors, did "the pleasure of refinement" involve (1050)?

1051:

How, according to the editors, did poets view the new status of prose during the period?