英国文学简史 4新古典主义(18世纪).pdfVIP

The Neoclassical Period （18th century） Definitions of literary terms 英语081班 汪志超 5101108095 1) The Enlightenment Movement The 18th-century England is known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason. The Enlightenment Movement was a progressive intellectual movement which flourished in France swept through the whole Western Europe at the time. The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15th 16th centuries. Its purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modem philosophical artistic ideas. The enligh