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Indice generale
3.4.4 John Bunyan (1628-1688)
229
3.4.5 Women’s Prose Writing
230
3.4.6 Literary Criticism: John Dryden
231
3.4.7 The Diarists
231
Chapter Four
The Augustan Age
4.1 The Age of Reason (1714-1760)
233
4.1.1 Historical and Social Background
233
4.1.2 Cultural and Literary Background
235
4.2 The Rise of the Novel
237
4.2.1 The Rise of the Realistic Novel
237
4.2.2 Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
238
4.2.3 Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
240
4.2.4 Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)
242
4.2.5 Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
244
4.2.6 Lawrence Sterne (1713-1768)
246
4.2.7 Women’s Writing
248
4.3 Augustan Prose Writing
248
4.3.1 The Rise of Journalism
248
4.3.2 Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
250
4.3.3 Satirical Prose Writing: Jonathan Swift
251
4.3.4 Philosophical and Historical Prose Writing
252
4.4 Augustan Drama and Poetry
253
4.4.1 The Sentimental Comedy: Richard Steele
253
4.4.2 The Augustan Tragedy: Richard Addison
254
4.4.3 The Ballad Opera: John Gay (1685-1732)
254
4.4.4 The New Comedy of Manners
255
4.4.5 Augustan Poetry: Alexander Pope and his circle
256
4.4.6 The Twilight of Classicism: Towards a New Sensibility
258
Chapter Five
The Age of Sensibility
5.1 The Romantic Age (1776-1837)
261
5.1.1 Social and Historical Background
261
5.1.2 Cultural and Literary Background
263
5.2 Pre-Romanticism
267
5.2.1 Pre-Romantic Sensibility: an Introduction
267
5.2.2 Ossianic Poetry: James Macpherson (1736-1796)
268
5.2.3 Graveyard Poetry
268
5.2.4 Robert Burns (1759-1796)
271
5.2.5 Early Gothic Fiction
271
5.3 First Generation of Romantic Poets
274
5.3.1 William Blake (1757-1827)
274
5.3.2 William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
276
5.3.3 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
279
5.4 Second Generation of Romantic Poets
282
5.4.1 George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
282
5.4.2 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
285
5.4.3 John Keats (1795-1821)
288
5.5 The Romantic Novel
292
