Historical background to restoration and eighteenth-century English literature

Zámbóné Kocic Larisa: Historical background to restoration and eighteenth-century English literature. (2018) [Online educational package (e-learning lesson/topic)]

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Historical background to restoration and eighteenth-century English literature

Abstract

SUMMARY: This lesson will introduce the necessary historical and cultural background for the appreciation and interpretation of the literary text written in the period of Restoration and the eighteenth-century England, particularly as they will pertain to concepts now familiar but first institutionalized in this period: the English novel (gothic in particular), the anglophone brand of musical theatre, the concept of the author as owner of her or his own work, and literary criticism that will eventually foster the study of literature in English as a valid academic subject. Topics will include: • Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 and its historical background (constitutional crisis), the religious issues contesting the political settlement; • the Glorious Revolution of 1688; the Bill of Rights (1689) limiting the power of the Crown, and the Toleration Act (1698) granting a limited freedom of worship to Nonconformists; • the Union Act of 1707 creating Great Britain (the joining of the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland) and its emergence as a colonial power following the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713) and the Seven Years’ War with the French (1756–1763); • rise of population and urban centres, nascent Industrial Revolution, crime and punishment; • the chartering of the Royal Society for the Improving Natural Knowledge in 1662; Newtonianism; John Locke and the fist copyright law; • publishing boom in eighteenth-century Britain and the fostering of newspaper culture.

English abstract

SUMMARY: This lesson will introduce the necessary historical and cultural background for the appreciation and interpretation of the literary text written in the period of Restoration and the eighteenth-century England, particularly as they will pertain to concepts now familiar but first institutionalized in this period: the English novel (gothic in particular), the anglophone brand of musical theatre, the concept of the author as owner of her or his own work, and literary criticism that will eventually foster the study of literature in English as a valid academic subject. Topics will include: • Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 and its historical background (constitutional crisis), the religious issues contesting the political settlement; • the Glorious Revolution of 1688; the Bill of Rights (1689) limiting the power of the Crown, and the Toleration Act (1698) granting a limited freedom of worship to Nonconformists; • the Union Act of 1707 creating Great Britain (the joining of the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland) and its emergence as a colonial power following the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713) and the Seven Years’ War with the French (1756–1763); • rise of population and urban centres, nascent Industrial Revolution, crime and punishment; • the chartering of the Royal Society for the Improving Natural Knowledge in 1662; Newtonianism; John Locke and the fist copyright law; • publishing boom in eighteenth-century Britain and the fostering of newspaper culture.

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