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The literature of the seventeenth century may be divided into two
periods :
1 – the puritan age or the age of Melton which is divide into :
Jacobean and Caroline periods
2 – the restoration period or the age of Dryden
The seventeenth century was marked by the decline the renaissance
spirit , and the writers either imitated the great masters of Elizabethan
period or followed new paths
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Rebirth
of the moral nature of man which followed intellectual awakening of
Europe in 15th and 16th century
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Characteristics of Puritanism
1 – Common themes in early puritan writing
It reflected the character and scope of the reading public which was
literate and well-grounded in religion
2 – to make him more relevant to the universe
3 – to transform a mysterious god as he is separate from the world
4 – the function of puritan writers – the temperament of the writers
completely changed
Augustan literature ( Georgian literature )
It 's a style of English literature produced during the reigns of Queen
Anne , King George I , and George II in the first half of the 18th
century ending in the 1740s
It's a literary epoch that featured the rapid development of the novel ,
an explosion in satire , the mutation of drama from political satire into
melodrama and an evolution toward poetry of personal exploration
In philosophy it was an age increasingly dominated by empiricism ,
while in the writing of political economy it marked the evolution
mercantilism as formal philosophy , the development of capitalism
The age of Enlightenment ( Age of Reason )
It was intellectuals beginning in the late 17th and 18th century
Its purpose was to reform society using reason , challenge ideas
grounded in tradition and faith
It opposed superstition and intolerance with the Catholic Church
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The common people of France became frustrated
by ineptitude of king Louis XVI and the aristocracy
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External threats shaped the course of the revolution
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Then there was the rise of Maximilien
Robespierre and the Jacobins
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After the fall of the Jacobins , the directory assumed control
from 1795 to 1799
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The Revival of Romantic Poetry
It's the eighteenth century where we find the seeds of romanticism
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Romanticism ( Romantic era )
It was artistic, literary and intellectual movement
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It's marked by the following :
1 – it was also a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of
the age of Enlightenment

2 – it was embodied most strongly in the visual arts , music and
literature but it had a major impact on education and natural sciences
3 – its effects on politics were considerable and complex
The 20th century
It had the first global scale wars between several world powers across
multiple continents in World War I and World War II
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Feminism that demand that women have equal rights to
men was a major political issue in the world and particularly in the
result of granting woman suffrage in many countries
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It has been theorized that the 20th century saw more technological and
scientific progresses than all the other centuries combined since the
dawn of civilization
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Scientific discoveries , such as the theory of quantum physics changed
the world view of scientists , causing them to realize the universe was
fantastically more complex than previous believed
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Mass media , telecommunications and information technology made
the world knowledge more widely available
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The global life expectancy increased from 35 to 65 years
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He was an Irish playwright and co
founder of the London School of economics
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He was also an essayist , novelist , and
short story writer
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He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in
literature 1925 and an Oscar 1938 for his contributions to literature
and for his work on the film Pygmalion
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he attracted attention for his poem The Love Song Of
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He was awarded the Nobel prize in literature in 1948 for his
outstanding pioneer contribution to present – day poetry
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She was an American novelist ,
editor and professor
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Among her best known
novels are The Bluest eye , Sula , Song Of Solomon and Beloved She
won the Pulitzer prize in 1988 for Beloved and the Nobel Prize in 1933
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Orientalism
It is a term used by art historians and literary and cultural studies
scholars for the imitation or depiction of aspects of Middle Eastern and
East Asian cultures by writers , designers and artists in the West
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