chapter 4- Enlightenment Movement

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The Eighteenth Century

1. “the Age of Reason” Reason” 2. “the Neoclassic Age” Age”

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Enlightenment Movement

Enlightenment Movement

The Enlightenment Movement was a

progressive intellectual movement. movement. The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Its purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas. It celebrated reasons or rationality, rationality, equality and science. science.

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Neoclassicism

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It was initiated by Dryden,

culminated in Pope, continued by Johnson.

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1. The Restoration Literature (1660(16601700) drama, prose, poetry — The age of Dryden 2. The Augustan Age (1700-1745) (1700periodical essay, satire — The age of Pope 3. The Neoclassical Decline (1745(17451785) prose— The time of Johnson prose—

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Characteristics of

Neoclassicism literature

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1. a strong traditionalism 2. an “art” by long study and practice 3. an imitation of human life 4. the “maker”: the maker of the representative images of human actions and of the world 5. Different forms 6. new rules

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In drama three unities of time, place, and action In diction “witty” expressions, the use of artificial and witty”

stock diction In poetry lyric, epic, didactic, satiric or dramatic In versification closed heroic couplet

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The Genres of Literature in Neoclassicism

1. Poetry John Dryden, Alexander Pope , Samuel Johnson 2. Novel ( a realistic presentation of life of the common English people) Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding

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The Rise of the

Realistic Novel

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The origin of the novel can be traced back

to the romances of the ancient world and early Renaissance. The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678)—John (1678)— Bunyan –combination of an allegory, religion, folk and realism? Robinson Crusoe—Daniel Defoe (1719)? Crusoe—

Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740)— (1740)—

Samuel Richardson—epistolary novel? Richardson—

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The English novel developed during the 18th

century, partly in response to an expansion of the middle-class reading public. The 18th middlecentury novel tended to be loosely structured and semi-comic. Henry Fielding’s Ton Jones semiis considered a comic masterpiece. Samuel Richardson is known for his epistolary novels, such as Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748).

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英国小说的问世至少可追溯到十六世纪末的文艺

复兴时期。当时，一群毕业于牛津和剑桥的学养 有素的“大学才子” 有素的“大学才子”热衷于采用风格典雅和雕琢 华丽的散文体创作叙事性作品，对小说这种新的 样式进行了大胆的实践与探索。约翰·黎里的《 样式进行了大胆的实践与探索。约翰·黎里的《尤 弗伊斯》(1579)、菲利普·锡德尼的《阿卡狄亚》 弗伊斯》(1579)、菲利普·锡德尼的《阿卡

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Enlightenment Movement