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The Eighteenth Century;Enlightenment Movement;The Enlightenment Movement was a progressive intellectual movement. The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Its purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas. It celebrated reasons or rationality, equality and science.;Neoclassicism ;It was initiated by Dryden, culminated in Pope, continued by Johnson.;1. The Restoration Literature (1660-1700) drama, prose, poetry — The age of Dryden 2. The Augustan Age (1700-1745) periodical essay, satire — The age of Pope 3. The Neoclassical Decline (1745-1785) prose— The time of Johnson ;;1. a strong traditionalism 2. an “art” by long study and practice 3. an imitation of human life 4. the “maker”: the maker of the representative images of human actions and of the world 5. Different forms 6. new rules;In drama three unities of time, place, and action In diction “witty” expressions, the use of artificial and stock diction In poetry lyric, epic, didactic, satiric or dramatic In versification closed heroic couplet;The Genres of Literature in Neoclassicism;;The origin of the novel can be traced back to the romances of the ancient world and early Renaissance. The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678)—John Bunyan –combination of an allegory, religion, folk and realism? Robinson Crusoe—Daniel Defoe (1719)? Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740)— Samuel Richardson—epistolary novel? ;The English novel developed during the 18th century, partly in response to an expansion of the middle-class reading public. The 18th century novel tended to be loosely structured and semi-comic. Henry Fielding’s Ton Jones is considered a comic masterpiece. Samuel Richardson is known for his epistolary novels, such as Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748). ;;Daniel Defoe (1660-1731);Daniel Defoe and English Novel;His life: His works: Articles: The Trueborn Englishman (168