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 not found in the 11th ed.

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?

1046:

What six classical genres did neoclassical poets employ?

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:

What was the aim of the neoclassical writers?
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?