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Collection 4: the restoration

Collection 4: the restoration. Daniel Defoe. The Great, who live profusely The Rich, who live very plentifully The Middle Sort, who live well The Working Trades, who labor hard, but feel no want The Country People, Farmers, etc , who fare indifferently The Poor, that fare hard

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Collection 4: the restoration

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  1. Collection 4: the restoration

  2. Daniel Defoe • The Great, who live profusely • The Rich, who live very plentifully • The Middle Sort, who live well • The Working Trades, who labor hard, but feel no want • The Country People, Farmers, etc, who fare indifferently • The Poor, that fare hard • The Miserable, that really pinch and suffer want

  3. Period of Calm • After plague, fire, civil war • Growing middle class • Philosophy, art, and literature

  4. Charles II • Compared to Octavian – Roman ruler • Monarchy restored – 1660 • Writing imitating Latin classics – neoclassical

  5. The Enlightenment • From Why? to How? • Deism – creator made the world and withdrew • Charles II reestablished the Anglican Church

  6. The Bloodless Revolution • Charles II’s brother James II – Roman Catholic • James’s daughter, Mary, and husband, William of Orange – Protestant

  7. Theater and Satire • Charles II lifted ban on theater • Life of upper class • Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift • Works addressed to upper class – immorality and bad taste

  8. First Novels • “something new” • Middle class • What life was like • Joys and disappointments of human experience

  9. The end of the age • Industrial Revolution – cities turned to filthy slums • Effect of nature on human soul • Look for simplicity

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