This PPT is prepared as a part of Virtual Teachers' Day Celebration at the Department of English, MKBU, in which I have selected the topic 'The Neoclassical Age'.
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Neo-Classical Period Guide
1. The Neo-Classical
Period
Prepared by Trushali Dodiya
A Student at the Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsihnji Bhavnagar University
5th September 2023
Virtual Teacher’s Day celebration
2. What does the word “Neo-Classical” mean?
New
Neo
● Ancient
● Refined
● Elegant
● Antiquity
Classical
The word Neo-Classical is made of two words:
3. Characteristics
Writers looked back to the ideals and art forms of classical
times, i,.e, Greek and Roman Literature
Revival of Classical Values
Emphasized the classical ideals of order and rational
control.
Appropriateness in Characterization, Plot, meter and
language
A widespread and influential movement in painting and
other visual arts.
Neoclassical poetry marked a return to the classic Greek
and Roman conventions of poetry.
4. Timeline of the Neo-classical Age
The
Restoration
Age
The Augustan
Age
The Age of
Johnson
1660-1700 1700-1750 1750-1798
5. The Restoration Age(1660-1700)
Restoration of the monarchy after the return of
Charles II.
The rise of Neo-classicism
Imitations of ancients
Writers of the time looked back to the style of
the Greeks and Romans. They emphasized
restraint, self-control, and common sense.
6. The Augustan Age(1700-1750)
The term was coined by the poet Oliver Goldsmith
Named after the Roman emperor Augustus, who ruled when
Virgil, Horace, and Ovid were writing.
The English Augustans translated and modeled their own
verse after these poets
Writers of this age was imitating the Greek and Roman
traditions in their writings and adopting similar genres, as
such as epic or pastoral.
Predominance of prose.
Alexander Pope's 1711 long poem, "An essay on criticism”
and his versions of two Homeric epic The Iliad and The
Odyssey
7. The Age of Johnson(1750-1798)
Last stage of the Neo classical age in literature.
Dominated in writing by Samuel Johnson and that's
why this period is named as age of Johnson.
Focused on neoclassical aesthetics - the study of
natural and artistic beauty with an eye toward the
great classical writers
Few years after his death, Neo classical age ends
with publication of "Lyrical Ballads" by Wordsworth.
8. The Age of Enlightenment(1685-1815)
Intellectual and philosophical movement
Use and Celebration of reasons
The ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity
were synthesized(Knowledge, freedom, and happiness)
Rejection of supernatural ideas
Deism, Skepticism in Church/ questioning traditionally
rooted beliefs
Revolutionary developments in art, philosophy, and
politics
Scientific Revolution(Newton, Kepler, Galelio)
10. Predominance of Prose
The rise of new prose forms: Periodicals, Pamphlets,
Magazines, Newspapers, Criminal biographies,
Travelogues, Political allegories, Romantic tales.
Addison’s Essays
Swift’s Satires
Henry Fielding’s Novels
Gibbon’s History
Burke’s Orations
Poetry also became prosaic
Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary
11. Satire
Golden age of Satires
Political unrest, Sharp wit and personal
contention
Whigs and Tories
Dryden’s Mac Flecknoe
Jonathan Swifts ‘A Tale of a Tub’
Alexander Pope
12. Novel
The Industrial Revolution
created a demand for reading
about everyday events.
The middle class expanded,
and more people became
literate.
The Industrial Revolution also
expanded newspapers and
the periodical press, making
novels more accessible.
Henry Fielding – the Father of
Novels
Four
Wheels
of Novel
Henry
Fielding
Lawerence
Sterne
Richard
Steel
Tobias
Smollet
13. Major Literary Figures
Alexander Pope: Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the
Lock
Jonathan Swift: The Battle of Books, A Tale of A Tub,
Gulliver’s Travel
Joseph Addison: Essays
Samuel Johnson: First English Dictionary, Lives of
Poet
Henry Fielding: The History of Tom Jones, a
Foundling, Joseph Andrews, The Life and Death of
14. The publication of the Lyrical Ballads in
1798 marked the end of the Neo-Classical
period and beginning of the Romantic
period