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Neoclassic Literature

Neoclassic Literature . Is marked by comedies, influenced by the French theater and marked by satire. . Timeline. 1660 Stuart restore Charles II to throne Dryden writes Astraea Redux 1662 Royal society founded as reorganization of Philosophical Society 1667 Milton: Paradise Lost 1670

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Neoclassic Literature

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  1. Neoclassic Literature • Is marked by comedies, influenced by the French theater and marked by satire.

  2. Timeline • 1660 • Stuart restore Charles II to throne • Dryden writes Astraea Redux • 1662 • Royal society founded as reorganization of Philosophical Society • 1667 • Milton: Paradise Lost • 1670 • Dryden made poet laureate • 1676 • Etheredge, The Man of Mode • Restoration comedy begins to spread • 1682 • Dryden: MacFlecknoe

  3. (Continued) • 1711 • Pope: essay on Criticism • Addison: Steele, The Spectator (first periodical) • 1719 • Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (first novel in English) • 1722 • Defoe: journal of the Plague Years Moll Flanders • 1725 • Pope’s edition of Shakespeare • 1726 • Swift: Gulliver’s Travels • 1728 • Gay: Beggars Opera

  4. (Continued) • 1742 • Fielding, Joseph Andrews • 1749 • Fielding, Tom Jones • 1764 • Walpole, Castle of Otranto (first graphic novel in English)

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