Literature week 8 Flashcards
(5 cards)
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3 Major Literary Figures in The Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1660-1780)
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Aphra Behn: First professional female author in England.
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (1719), an early adventure novel.
Samuel Richardson: Clarissa (1747-1748), an epistolary novel about female virtue.
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Voltaire, Montesquieu, Kant: Advocated…
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reason, science, and political freedom.
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Bacon, Newton, Locke: Contributed to
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scientific thought and democracy.
4
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What are the impacts of the philosophers on Literature & Society:
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Focus on rationalism, skepticism, and intellectual progress.
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The most influential English dictionary until the 20th century.
Aimed to standardize the language and increase accessibility to knowledge.
This shi describes….
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Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary (1755):
