Restoration and 18th Century

The Restoration and Eighteenth Century

Terms to Know:

Act of Union (931)
Test Act (932)
Popish Plot (1678) (932-33)
Jacobite (933)
Toleration Act (933)
asiento (933)
Tory (934)
Whig (934)

Seven Years' War (935)
dogmatism (936)
epicureanism (936)
natural philosophy (938)
natural religion (938)
deism (938)
empiricism (938)
sentimentalism (940)
Cult of Sensibility (940)

Methodism (941)
bluestockings (945)
Augustan (947)
neoclassicism (947)
caesura (950)
blank verse (951)
comedy of manners (952)

Discussion Questions:
931:

When was Charles II restored to the English throne?
What was the Glorious Revolution? When did it occur?

937:

What two significant scientific inventions occurred during this time? What were the consequences of these inventions?
What were some of the consequences of world exploration of the period?

948:

What was the aim of the neoclassical writers?

953:

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

955:

How did prose function in the latter half of the eighteenth century?

956:

What did Gothic fiction involve?

958:

How did the popular meaning of "revolution" change during this period?
What did Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature pass on to the future?

Other Discussion Questions:
932:

Why were most Britons eager to welcome Charles Stuart back to England?

934:

Describe the religious views of the Tories and the Whigs.

935:

What two concerns dominated the reign of George III?

938:

Explain the description of Newton on the seashore.

939:

Explain the significance of Mary Astell.

942:

Explain: "The modern individual had been invented" (942).
Why did publishing boom in 18th Century Britain?
What is "prior restraint"?
What did the Stage Licensing Act of 1737 accomplish?

943:

What was the Statute of Anne of 1710?
Explain publication by subscription.

944:

Explain: "The vigor of the literary marketplace demanded the labor of all classes" (944).

946:

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

947:

What were the characteristics of the literature of the three "lesser periods" of the time?

948:

On what meaning of "Nature" did Augustans focus?

949:

Explain the "state of mind in which life assumes the form of perpetual allegory" (949).
What is a wit?
What "special language" was used by poets of the period?

951:

Explain: "The eighteenth century brought poetry down to earth" (951).

952:

What are the characteristics of Restoration literature?

953:

Why is the first half of the eighteenth century considered "a great age of satire" (953)?

954:

What is the distinction between "stage" and "drama"?

956:

How did the poets view the new status of prose?