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French revolution

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1789

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industrial revolution

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1780

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peterloo massacre

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1819

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abolishment of slave trade: where slave trading is was banned but it still basically still went on

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1807

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Total abolishment of of the slave institution

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1833

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restoration of Charles the second

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1660

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formal realism

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“a narrative method” for producing “a full and authentic report of
human experience

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probability

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as a principle of artistic construction defines not just what events
are likely to happen, but also how characters and society are likely to react to
events

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the novel

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Richardson turns the familiar letter into a dramatic form by inventing a technique called writing to the moment

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gothic novel

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a turn away from regular novels that focus on clarity, gothic novels focus more on the pleasure of uncertainty

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Menippean Satire

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Menippean satire is a style of satire that is characterized by attacking mental attitudes rather than specific individuals or entities.

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The beautiful

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not perfection but beauty in weakness. beauty is Small, Smoothness, Gradual Variation

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the sublime

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that which excites ideas of pain and danger, that which excites
feelings of terror

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ottava Rima

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Italian poetry style that is written in iambic pentameter, that has eight lines per stanza

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mirror

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art is an
imitation [of nature] seemed almost too obvious to need iteration or proof.

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lamp

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A work of art is essentially the internal made external, resulting from a creative process operating under the impulse of feelings, and embodying the combined product of the poet’s perceptions, thoughts, and feelings.

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heroic verse

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Poetry style written in iambic pentamer, defined my rhyming couplets

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great chain of being

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All existing beings exist on a scale of perfection, with God’s essential goodness at the top, the angels and other higher, intellectual beings beneath him, man somewhere in the (lower) middle, and everything else beneath man

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Jane Austin

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pride and prejudice

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Willam wordsworth

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exposition and reply, the tables turned, the thorn , lines written a few miles above Tintern abby, ode imatations of immoratily

21
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Samuel taylor coleridge

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kubla khan, Christabel

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percy shelley

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the mask of anarchy

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lord byron

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don juan

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horace walpool

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castle of ortranto

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eliza haywood

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fantomina

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maty wollstonecraft

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vindication of the rights of the women

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alfred lord tennyson

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in memoriam

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willam blake

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The tyger

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1rst generation romantics

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William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth

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2nd generation romantic

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lord byron, percy shelley,