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12.Eighteenth-Century Literature istorical backgroundThe period we are studying is included between the English Revolution of 1688 and the beginning of the French Revolution of 1789. Historically, the period begins in a remarkable way by the adoption of the Bill of rights in 1689. (One of the fundamental instruments of constitutional law. It incorporated by statute the Declaration of rights accepted by William III and Mary II, and registered the results of the struggle between the Stuart kings and parliament. The Bill of rights stated that no Roman Catholic would rule England; it ga