《英美文学选读》英国文学The Neoclassical Period.docVIP

PART ONE：ENGLISH LITERATUREChapter 2 The Neoclassical Period 　　概述：　　一、关于新古典主义时期 　　（一）新古典主义时期的标志　　Neoclassical period：Between the return of the Stuarts to the English throne in 1660 and the full assertion of Romanticism which came with the publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798.　　（二）新古典主义时期的社会背景 　　The English society of the neoclassical period was a turbulent one; conflicts and divergence of values.　　1.The Great London Fire: destroyed a large part of the city, leaving two-thirds of the population homeless.　　2.The Great Plague: took 70,000 lives in London alone