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Drama authors

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  • John gray — satirical play : the beggar’s opera (1720s)
  • John Dryden : master of heroic tragedy 🎭
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Rise of novels - the five greats

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  • Daniel Defoe (1660)
  • Samuel Richardson (1689)
  • Henry fielding (1707 )
  • Tobias smollett (1721)
  • Laurence sterne (1713)
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Daniel Defoe oeuvre

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Robinson Crusoe— 1719

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Samuel Richardson

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  • pamela
  • Clarissa - 1747
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Henry fielding

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  • Shamela
    -Joseph Andrews
  • tom jones - picaresque novel
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Tobias smollett

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Humphry clinker
Mingles the epistolary and picaresque

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Laurence sterne

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The life and opinions of Tristram shandy (9volumes)

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«Triumvirate of wit»

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  • Eliza Haywood
  • Aphra Behn
  • Delarivier Manley
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Joseph Andrews personnage

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Joseph Andrews
Lady boody
Fanny godwill
Pardon Abraham adams

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Romantic period

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Considered to have lasted from 1798 (lyrical ballads — by Wordsworth and Coleridge ) to
1832 ( the first great Reform Act)

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Sublime by Burke

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Delight and terror in the face of nature

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Sublime by Kant

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Boundlessness within the mind

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Sublime by Longinus

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Rhetorical devices creating sublimity in texts

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Romanticism — 1 st generation poet

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  • william Wordsworh
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Robert Southey
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Romanticism - 1st generation - essayist

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Charles Lamb
Thomas de Quincey

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Romanticism - 2nd generation

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Poets :
- lord byron
- Percy bysshe Shelley
- John Keats
Others writers ✍️ :
- Leigh hunt
- William Blake
- William Hazlitt

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Concept coined by Coleridge + def

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Willing suspension of disbelief :
- readers need to accept the imaginate world of the author ✍️

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Concept coined by Wordsworth

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Spots of time 🕰️
- moments of intense emotional experience that shape the imagination 💭

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Concept of Keats

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Negative capability
- the ability to accept uncertainty and ambigus in the creative process

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Political themes in fictions

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  • William Godwin :
    «An Enquiry into political justice» 🧑‍⚖️
  • Mary Wollstonecraft:
    «A vindication of the knights of woman» 👩🏼
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Gothic novel def + authors

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Dark themes, supernatural elements, and psychological depth

  • horace Walpole:
    The castle of otranto
  • Ann Radcliffe
    A romance of the forest 🌳
    Mysteries of Udolpho

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