Úvod
Sekce obsahuje podklady ke zkoušce z Britské literatury 3. Oficiální seznam témat ke zkoušce neexistuje, tudíž jsem podle sekundární literatury vytvořila vlastní seznam, který by měl zcela pokrývat náplň zkoušky z tohoto předmětu. Pro snazší orientaci zařazuji seznam názvů témat spolu se jmény autorů zahrnutých pod daným tématem. Viz první záznam této sekce pod názvem "Overview".
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Britská literatura 3
(11) Restoration Drama
Drama
- the prominent genre during the Restoration
- before the Restoration, playhouses were closed by the Puritans (1642 - 1660), officially because of the plague, but the Puritans objected against...
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(12) Restoration Poetry and Prose
Poetry
- the court of Charles II was, despite its cloak of Anglican conformity, open to sexual, religious, and verbal licence
- the change of mood was evident also in the reaction against the two...
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Background to Literature between 1700 and 1745
Literacy
- emergence of a new reading public, including upper-class women and the prosperous middle-class of both sexes
- rise of popular periodical essays, miscellaneous collections of verse and...
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(13) Daniel Defoe (c. 1660 - c. 1731)
Pamphlets and Poems
- by birth, education and occupations a stranger to the polite literature of his lifetime
- middle-class by birth, a small merchant by profession and a Presbyterian in religion
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(14) Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
Life and Career
- born in Dublin of newly settled English parents and educated according to Anglican principles in Ireland
- ordained a priest of the Irish Church, consistently but unsuccessfully...
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(15) Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
Life and Career
- the only important writer of his generation who supported himself solely by writing
- as a Roman Catholic not enabled to enter a university, vote, hold public office or enjoy...
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Background to Literature between 1745 and 1790
General
- codification of the English language: Samuel Johnson's influential Dictionary (1755)
- faith in common sense: the conservative Edmund Burke, the radical Thomas Paine, Samuel Johnson's faith...
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(16) Eighteenth-Century Prose
Periodical Essay
- developed by the literary collaborators Sir Richard Steele and Joseph Addison in their respective periodicals The Tatler (1709 - 11, published three times a week) and its successor...
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(17) Eighteenth-Century Drama
Sentimental Comedy
- replaces the Restoration comedy of manners
- deals with high moral sentiments, makes the goodness triumph over vice, and moves the audience to tears rather than laughter
Sir...
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(18) Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Poetry
- develops in several different genres parallelly
- the Graveyard School: preoccupied with images of decay, with medieval ruins and tombs
> Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country...
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(19) Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Life and Career
- his father's lack of financial resources obliged him to leave Oxford without a degree (1731), but later in his career was awarded doctorates by Trinity College in Dublin (1765) and...
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(20) Late Eighteenth-Century Novel
Sense and Sentiment
- both Charlotte Smith and Frances Burney were directly touched by the French Revolution, but neither espoused radical causes in her fiction, Burney in particular increasingly...
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