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The 18th century saw the development of the modern novel as literary genre, in fact many candidates for the first novel in English date from this period, of which Daniel Defoe's 1719 Robinson Crusoe is probably the best known.
The 18th century. Publication of political literature. The expiry of the Licensing Act in 1695 halted state censorship of the press. During the next 20 years there were to be 10 general elections. These two factors combined to produce an enormous growth in the publication of political literature.
Neoclassicism, a facet of the Enlightenment era, produced highly structured, formal literature modeled on classical Greek and Roman literature. During the 18th century, the English language became more standardized and prescriptive. The first English dictionaries, particularly Dr. Samuel Johnson’s dictionary, were produced during the 18th ...
23 de may. de 2020 · 10 Eighteenth-Century Novels Everyone Should Read. By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Although it was the nineteenth century when the novel arguably came into its own, with novelists like Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, George Eliot, and the Brontë sisters writing novels that are still widely read and studied today, the ...
The 18th century. To call the 18th century the Age of Reason is to seize on a useful half-truth but to cause confusion in the general picture, because the primacy of reason had also been a mark of certain periods of the previous age. It is more accurate to say that the 18th century was marked by two main impulses: reason and passion.
During the Renaissance the renewed interest in Classical learning and values had an important effect on English literature, as on all the arts; and ideas of Augustan literary propriety in the 18th century and reverence in the 19th century for a less specific, though still selectively viewed, Classical antiquity continued to shape the literature.
Significant Historical Dates: 1660: Charles II restored to the throne. Reopening of theaters; women begin acting in women’s parts. 1665-66: Great Plague of London. 1666: Great Fire destroys city of London. 1668: John Dryden becomes the first Poet Laureate.
